Banana peels are racist. Cotton bolls are racist. Free speech week at the University of California Berkeley has been cancelled, although Milo Yiannopoulos says it has not. When you look around at what passes for culture these days and ask yourself, “Self, da heck?”, this tells you just about everything you need to know.

Before I start I would like to, once again, pay my son proper respect for not going to a “normal college”. If he had gone to, say, the University of Tennessee Knoxville, I would have probably popped my great cerebral brain from the equine manure that is spread liberally at these normal colleges.

Banana peels and cotton bolls connote racism and trigger young college students. At the University of Mississippi aka “Ole Miss”, a banana peel discarded on a tree triggered such hysterics that a three day Greek Week Leadership seminar had to be cancelled. The UK Daily Mail reported it thusly:

Ole Miss accounting major Ryan Swanson, who is white, quickly came forward, admitting that he was the one who had tossed the banana skin into the tree, but he insisted that he did so because he could not find a garbage can and meant no offense to anyone.
DailyMail.com reached out to Mr Swanson, vice president of recruitment with the Interfraternity Council at Ole Miss, seeking comment Thursday.
Alexa Lee Arndt, interim director of Fraternity and Sorority Life at Ole Miss, said in an internal email obtained by The Daily Mississippian that many members of the Ole Miss community were ‘hurt, frightened, and upset’ in the wake of the peel incident.
Because of the underlying reality many students of color endure on a daily basis, the conversation manifested into a larger conversation about race relations today at the University of Mississippi,’ Arndt stated.

Apparently, bananas had been found hanging from nooses three months earlier after a black female student was set to be student government president. That’s disturbing and distressing. Most likely the banana noose configuration was the work of a sick racist pig. But a banana peel? Puhleeze.