Morgan leadership must denounce Farrakhan's appearance (Baltimore: 2014, how much, school)

[Infinite_heights77]

*Interesting!

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-farrakhan-morgan-20141119-story.html

Morgan leadership must denounce Farrakhan's appearance

By Jay Bernstein

Both as a matter of law and as a matter of public policy, student organizations at public universities are entitled to invite speakers of their choosing to address the student body, no matter how controversial the speaker or the speaker's message. However, the fact that student groups have the right to invite whom they want does not shield them from criticism when they select a speaker whose message is repugnant.

[B.K.]

Farrakhan is a racist, black supremacist, anti-semite, whose revisionist version of history would be laughable if it weren't so deliberately inflammatory. College students have a long history of jumping on the bandwagon for outrageous characters and causes. As well, there are significant numbers of Black Muslims and related religious groups in the Baltimore area, so some students may have been raised to follow the teachings of Farrakhan. He does have the protected right of free speech, the students have the right to assemble, and presumably whichever committee invited him has authority from the school to do so.
That being said, I equate his appearance at MSU to having the Johns Hopkins Student Union invite the Grand Dragon and Imperial Wizard to speak on campus. Legal, but in very poor taste.

[feck]

If the Grand Dragon of the KKK was invited to
JHU I would go to hear him speak and openly
debate him on the intellectual foundations of
of his white supremacist arguments.

Unlike you, I am willing to listen and debate.

[Hamish Forbes]

Originally Posted by feck

If the Grand Dragon of the KKK was invited to
JHU I would go to hear him speak and openly
debate him on the intellectual foundations of
of his white supremacist arguments.

Since the KKK represents more or less the lowest quintile of the white population, it might be a fair fight -- sort of like midget wrestling.

[Calvert Hall '62]

Originally Posted by feck

If the Grand Dragon of the KKK was invited to
JHU I would go to hear him speak and openly
debate him on the intellectual foundations of
of his white supremacist arguments.

Unlike you, I am willing to listen and debate.

Yeah, I can see the left-wing moonbat professors and Administration tolerating the KKK on their hallowed grounds. Heh.

[feck]

Originally Posted by Hamish Forbes

Since the KKK represents more or less the lowest quintile of the white population, it might be a fair fight -- sort of like midget wrestling.

Yeah, they're willing to do and say things
you only think about doing and saying (in public).

[gwillyfromphilly]

Originally Posted by B.K.

Farrakhan is a racist, black supremacist, anti-semite, whose revisionist version of history would be laughable if it weren't so deliberately inflammatory. College students have a long history of jumping on the bandwagon for outrageous characters and causes. As well, there are significant numbers of Black Muslims and related religious groups in the Baltimore area, so some students may have been raised to follow the teachings of Farrakhan. He does have the protected right of free speech, the students have the right to assemble, and presumably whichever committee invited him has authority from the school to do so.
That being said, I equate his appearance at MSU to having the Johns Hopkins Student Union invite the Grand Dragon and Imperial Wizard to speak on campus. Legal, but in very poor taste.

I'm not a big Farrakhan fan but are you really going to call him a Black supremacist? When has he ever been in a position to systematically oppress White people in the United States? Real racism is about what you do and not what you talk about. The big difference between White and Black racism is that White racism has been about action, meaning actually oppressing Black people both physically and systematically. Black racism is the New Black Panther Party standing on the sidewalk talking about "How much they hate the White man". They are clearly not the same.

[Sunflowery]

As a Black woman, I do NOT support MSU's decision of inviting him to speak there. I happened to read that joke of a publication "The Final Call" out of curiosity and it mentioned in one article that White people eat meat because they are animalistic. What the heck!?

That's the equivalent White folks calling Black folks monkeys.

[Calvert Hall '62]

Originally Posted by gwillyfromphilly

I'm not a big Farrakhan fan but are you really going to call him a Black supremacist? When has he ever been in a position to systematically oppress White people in the United States? Real racism is about what you do and not what you talk about. The big difference between White and Black racism is that White racism has been about action, meaning actually oppressing Black people both physically and systematically. Black racism is the New Black Panther Party standing on the sidewalk talking about "How much they hate the White man". They are clearly not the same.

Actually, govt. mandated affirmative action policies, set asides, quotas, relaxed standards for "protected" groups, of the past 45 years can be considered systematic or institutional racism.

As for physical racism, how about knockout games, polar bear hunting, dousing white kids with gasoline and torching them ..... That's worse than anything the New Black Panthers have done .... so far at least.

[Infinite_heights77]

*Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!! Calvert Hall, do you really want to stroll down this historical rabbit hole on "physical racism" and "horrific atrocities" committed against people of African descent by white Europeans and Americans in this nation??! The examples you've chosen on "physical racism", can't even eclipse the historical realities and horrors Black people have endured in this country at the hands of murderous white males and their institutions.

You do not want to go take that journey Sir!

Originally Posted by Calvert Hall '62

Actually, govt. mandated affirmative action policies, set asides, quotas, relaxed standards for "protected" groups, of the past 45 years can be considered systematic or institutional racism.

As for physical racism, how about knockout games, polar bear hunting, dousing white kids with gasoline and torching them ..... That's worse than anything the New Black Panthers have done .... so far at least.