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It is this last category of people that are the most frustrating. They avoided the outlandish talking points offered up by the classic attention hogs but still managed to prove they were completely out of touch with reality. For example, longtime Fox News contributor Cal Thomas opined that the “real problem” for the African American community is that they have “an attitude of victimhood.”

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The reality is that African Americans and liberals don’t hold a monopoly on victim mentality. The only difference is that to conservatives when a liberal claims something is unfair they are playing the victim while when a conservative claims the same it is a fact that proves liberals are ruining this great country.

The “real problem” with Ferguson, New York, Cleveland or any other city where the police have executed black males is not “an attitude of victimhood.” No, the real problem is the group who sit in their ivory tower doling out sage advice to people they clearly don’t understand about a situation they have no experience with that does nothing but increase the ever widening gap in race relations. Because pretending to know what it’s like to be black in America isn’t even remotely close to actually being black in America.

- White Ignorance at the Core of Racial Tensions, HuffingtonPost.com, Febuary 7, 2017.

3. Ms Cheli Cresswell’s last meeting with her assessors was odd. Her assessors, renowned scholars at the University of Oxford, were eager to discuss with her the scientific papers she ought to write in order to obtain her doctorate. However, Ms Cresswell only wanted to talk about her app idea. It would let citizen scientists map stories about human-elephant interactions from online sources. This visualisation would then aid communities and environmentalists in developing more targeted conservation strategies. She hopes this app will be an integral part of her doctoral thesis. Her assessors did not get it.