This was a week before Donald Trump announced his candidacy. At the time, I did not even know he was running. Apparently, though, he and Ben Carson both were thinking along the same lines.
Not since S.I. Hayakawa stared down the Black Panthers at San Francisco State in 1968 has a university president distinguished himself for his courage. That stand got Hayakawa elected U.S. senator.
from October 21, 2015
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Wesleyan University sophomore Bryan Stascavage knew he would ruffle a few feathers when, just a week ago, he wrote an op-ed for the campus newspaper, the Argus, on the subject of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Although supportive of the movement’s goals, Stascavage summed up his painfully balanced piece with this idea: “If vilification and denigration of the police force continues to be a significant portion of Black Lives Matter’s message, then I will not support the movement.”
“Many Americans feel the same,” Stascavage opined. Unfortunately for him, few of them go to Wesleyan. This “cis, het, white man,” as he was promptly denounced, did not just ruffle feathers. He set the whole crazed chicken coop a-cackling.
“Once the article was read by the campus,” said Stascavage, “instead of giving me criticisms, [the reaction] was to call me a racist and totry to get me to never publish again – students screaming at me in public for 15 minutes, people whispering ‘racist’ as I walk by.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/10/the-campus-crusade-for-conformity-or-else/#bYAVzJyMEkpj0IhD.99
Although supportive of the movement’s goals, Stascavage summed up his painfully balanced piece with this idea: “If vilification and denigration of the police force continues to be a significant portion of Black Lives Matter’s message, then I will not support the movement.”
“Many Americans feel the same,” Stascavage opined. Unfortunately for him, few of them go to Wesleyan. This “cis, het, white man,” as he was promptly denounced, did not just ruffle feathers. He set the whole crazed chicken coop a-cackling.
“Once the article was read by the campus,” said Stascavage, “instead of giving me criticisms, [the reaction] was to call me a racist and totry to get me to never publish again – students screaming at me in public for 15 minutes, people whispering ‘racist’ as I walk by.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/10/the-campus-crusade-for-conformity-or-else/#bYAVzJyMEkpj0IhD.99
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