College Professor Bans the Term “Melting Pot” for Being Racist (Sorry Schoolhouse Rock)

Apparently now the term “melting pot” is racist according to one Florida college professor.

Via The Daily Caller:

Art professor Pamela Brekka’s policy was first reported by Campus Reform after the website obtained images of the syllabus and online assignments for her class, Art Appreciation: American Diversity and Global Arts. The class, which Brekka taught over the 2016 summer term, helps fulfill the university’s distributive requirement for the humanities, along with a separate diversity requirement.

In the introduction for several online assignment Brekka warns, in all-caps, “DO NOT EVER USE THE PHRASE ‘MELTING POT’ IN THIS CLASS. IN THIS CLASS WE CELEBRATE DIVERSITY, NOT SAMENESS.”

Because if there’s one thing the term “melting pot” calls to mind, it’s “sameness”.

Come on. Didn’t Professor Brekka ever watch Schoolhouse Rock?

Lyrics:

My grandmother came from Russia
A satchel on her knee,
My grandfather had his father’s cap
He brought from Italy.
They’d heard about a country
Where life might let them win,
They paid the fare to America
And there they melted in.

Lovely Lady Liberty
With her book of recipes
And the finest one she’s got
Is the great American melting pot.
The great American melting pot.

America was founded by the English,
But also by the Germans, Dutch, and French.
The principle still sticks;
Our heritage is mixed.
So any kid could be the president.

You simply melt right in,
It doesn’t matter what your skin.
It doesn’t matter where you’re from,
Or your religion, you jump right in
To the great American melting pot.
The great American melting pot.
Ooh, what a stew, red, white, and blue.

America was the New World
And Europe was the Old.
America was the land of hope,
Or so the legend told.
On steamboats by the millions,
In search of honest pay,
Those 19th-century immigrants sailed
To reach the U.S.A.

Lovely Lady Liberty
With her book of recipes
And the finest one she’s got
Is the great American melting pot
The great American melting pot.
What good ingredients,
Liberty and immigrants.

They brought the country’s customs,
Their language and their ways.
They filled the factories, tilled the soil,
Helped build the U.S.A.
Go on and ask your grandma,
Hear what she has to tell
How great to be an American
And something else as well.

Lovely Lady Liberty
With her book of recipes
And the finest one she’s got
Is the great American melting pot
The great American melting pot.

The great American melting pot.
The great American melting pot.