Archibald: ‘Bama Rush’ takeaway -- UA IS the Machine

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'Alabama’s brand of politics requires a farm team for sleaze, a training ground, and the University of Alabama provides an MBA for dirty tricks,' columnist JohnArchibald writes of the 'Bama Rush' documentary. BamaRush

The documentary peeks into “The Machine,” the would-be secret coalition of elite fraternities and sororities that has controlled student life at UA for more than a century, and a University administration that pretends it doesn’t exist and thus allows it to flourish.

The silence says so much. Just like the silence of The Machine, which itself was fashioned after an Alabama power structure that looked away from slavery and wrote a constitution that protected the wealthy and penalized the poor. Just like it taxed the poor and gave sweeping breaks to land barons. Just like it continues to incarcerate its poorest people and hand billions of dollars in breaks to the world’s richest corporations.

And the University of Alabama, the king of the SEC, where football and Greek life and systemic elitism just mean more, says nothing.The University repeatedly remains silent when confronted with evidence and perception that student life is dominated by a secret cabal of privileged and corrupt puppeteers.

 

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