'Black Lives' Leader Defends Looting In Yale Lecture

Fox News ^ | 10-8-2015 | Perry Chiaramonte

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Perry Chiaramonte
October 08, 2015

The “Black Lives Matter” leader who landed a teaching gig at Yale University delivered a lecture this week on the historical merits of looting as a form of protest, backing up his lesson with required reading that puts modern-day marauders on par with the patriots behind the Boston Tea Party.

DeRay McKesson, who was hired by the Ivy League institution’s divinity school to lecture for two days on "Transformational Leadership in the #BlackLivesMatter Movement," had students read an essay written at the height of the rioting and looting that plagued the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson just over a year ago after a white police officer shot and killed a black man.

“The mystifying ideological claim that looting is violent and non-political is one that has been carefully produced by the ruling class because it is precisely the violent maintenance of property which is both the basis and end of their power,” reads the August, 2014 post from the literary magazine “The New Inquiry” entitled “In Defense of Looting.” “On a less abstract level there is a practical and tactical benefit to looting. Whenever people worry about looting, there is an implicit sense that the looter must necessarily be acting selfishly, ‘opportunistically,’ and in excess.”

McKesson appears to have veered off of his syllabus for the lesson, which prompted some critics to offer a reminder that looting does indeed have innocent victims

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[olepap]

I lived in New Haven for many years. It is a third world hellhole where you will get killed if you don’t watch out. Funny how the people of Yale have not been able to improve the lives of the people of New Haven, even when using Progressive tools and techniques.

[kearnyirish2]

Here in NJ any area hoping to attract “people that matter” (read: taxpayers) is expected to purge the welfare class first. Years ago Asbury Park NJ was supposed to be the epicenter of a revival in which wealthy homos would sink piles of cash into the place, but it faltered when the freaks in question realized that the year-round welfare population would be just blocks from their shorefront mecca.

Newark NJ won’t expel its welfare class, and it is reflected in its continuing loss of worthwhile jobs; Jersey City, on the other hand, is quite willing to deport its gibsmedats to remote areas where they won’t interfere with the “people that matter”. Jersey City now has the “Gold Coast”, flush with cash from NYC refugees, while Newark continues to wither on the vine despite massive injections of gubmint aid/projects.

[MarvinStinson]

Billy Boggs.

I had to look her up.

You learn something new every day on FR.