Posted on 10/08/2015 9:03:12 PM PDT by blam
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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The black culture of today mystifies me.
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Steal my stuff, I shoot you. It’s not political.
Maybe someone can loot his mamma’s basement that he lives in and takes his stuff(Ya know, Pokemon Cards, TV set, and XBOX ONE) and see how he likes it
Looting used to be called stealing.
People who believe they’re entitled to rip off others for their own gain don’t establish justice.
Its simple human greed at work.
If someone loots his house who will this guy call for help
BlackLivesMatter is run by white people. Blacks are simply pawns.
I’d love to see the SOB get his richly deserved comeuppance.
Exit question: does a BLM terrorist deserve the police to help him protect his life and property?
Yale is trash.
Yale promotes trash.
The best argument to date to support the principle that some Black lives matter not a whit!
I don't care what some drooling affirmative action doofus at Yale says.
When dealing with the wrong end of the IQ curve, clearly some adjustment in decisions must be made.
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Billy Boggs.
The Yale Divinity School hires DeRay McKesson, the professional protester, to defend looting as a form of protest. Way to go, Yale, so glad I am not paying tuition to you.
Shooting looters is a form of justice.
“The black culture of today mystifies me.”
Beats me as well, I an a dark skinned person and I have no clue what that “culture” is, it is alien to me.
those who claim to be leaders have created the myth of a homogeneous culture, a community if you will, that doesn't exist
immediately after the rioting and looting there were preachers on the street loudly whining "this is not us". they were correct. it was not us. that simple display indicates the multiculturalism within the American black race.
the cigar stealing, police attacking thug that died in Ferguson and Trayvon the also dead murder attempter are members of a black subculture that is totally alien to the black educated subcultures. if you want to learn the details of the various black subcultures, watch the TV series "The Wire" , all five seasons. the writers took pains, great pains, to illustrate there is no black culture but a series of subcultures that barely get along. they also illustrate that there can be movement from one to another but it is a difficult transition..
once you grasp the thought there is no homogeneous black community or culture the mystery will be lessened
“The black culture of today mystifies me.”
Probably because you refer to it as “culture”. The segment of the population shown looting has no more culture than a household cat. There is no indication they are capable of any advanced thought processes, and they react only to the basest instincts. As great whites are described in “Jaws”: they eat, sleep, and make little sharks.
Throw drug addiction into the mix, and you have Ferguson, Baltimore, etc.
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