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Bill de Blasio says his son, Dante, has joined protests over racial issues at Yale
New York Daily News ^ | November 24, 2015 | By Erin Durkin

Posted on 11/23/2015 10:44:12 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee

Mayor de Blasio said his son Dante has been active in protests over racial issues at Yale — and they both agree the school should drop the name of a prominent defender of slavery.

Dante, a freshman, is assigned to Yale’s Calhoun College, named for John C. Calhoun, a U.S. vice president and South Carolina senator who vehemently backed slavery as a “positive good” for the nation.

“He’s very concerned, and he certainly notes the fact that the college he’s in, Calhoun College, is named for someone it shouldn’t be named for,” de Blasio told reporters Monday. “

That’s quite evident to him, and you can understand as a young man of African descent, that it doesn’t feel particularly appropriate to live in a place named after the chief segregationist leader of the South.”

De Blasio said Yale should “absolutely” change the college’s name to strip away the honor for Calhoun. . .

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


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To: Brad from Tennessee

The parents must be SO proud!


21 posted on 11/24/2015 3:12:53 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: Brad from Tennessee

in other news, I repurchased some scrap wood as garden stakes and I’m thinking I’d more like asparagus than broccoli with thanksgiving dinner.


22 posted on 11/24/2015 3:28:59 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: muir_redwoods

repurposed that is


23 posted on 11/24/2015 3:31:52 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

It sounds like Junior is going to grow up to be a thug and a bully just like the old man.


24 posted on 11/24/2015 3:50:39 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Carlyle Begay. More bad news for the Clintonistas and the Democrats.)
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To: Gen.Blather
The parents must be SO proud!

Actually, his parents are probably BURSTING with pride, worthless feckless Commies that they are. And I'm sure his druggie sister is thrilled, too.

25 posted on 11/24/2015 4:07:44 AM PST by EinNYC
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To: Blue Jays

What is it with these men taking on the race or nationality of their women?

Shaking my dadgum head.


26 posted on 11/24/2015 4:13:12 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Two peas in a pod. Idiots that is........


27 posted on 11/24/2015 4:20:04 AM PST by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: Cowboy Bob

95% of these sensitive college protestors got in through affirmative-action (though Dante likely would have got in due to family power and celebrity anyway). The protests are a handy diversion for them from the realization that they are not academically competitive in their classes.


28 posted on 11/24/2015 5:09:56 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

what is most important is to appear to be making a difference


29 posted on 11/24/2015 5:14:48 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trumping.)
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To: bert

Or, really just to *care*, to *want* to make a difference, to *work at* making a difference.

Their idiotic intended results are ultimately beside the fact.


30 posted on 11/24/2015 5:20:30 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: machogirl

Don’t give Byrd too much credit. He never made to to Grand Wizard, was only a Kleagle. Which was a low-level functionary/recruiter.


31 posted on 11/24/2015 5:29:31 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I am still trying to figure out how DeBlasio’s lesbian wife became straight again.


32 posted on 11/24/2015 5:33:47 AM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
De Blasio said Yale should "œabsolutely" change the college's name to strip away the honor for Calhoun. . .

He is aware that the university is named for Elihu Yale, who oversaw slave trading while in charge of Madras in the 1680's isn't he?

33 posted on 11/24/2015 5:39:25 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

Also saying his kid is of African descent, no offense my boss is from Ethiopia, works in IT, has a masters in computer sci, he comes from that side of the world, and this kid is a mixed American.


34 posted on 11/24/2015 9:13:40 AM PST by the_individual2014
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To: Brad from Tennessee

You want an education , kid. Go to CUba or better yet Nicaragua.. Your dad did.


35 posted on 11/24/2015 10:34:05 AM PST by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Dante's white half is oppressing his black half. The white half of him is jealous that someone of african ancestry is able to attend Yale, so he is trying to kick him out of Calhoun College.

I think his white half needs to pay slave reparations, given all the blood he carries from his privileged white ancestors. I understand his shame. I'd feel embarrassed too, if my daddy was Warren Wilhelm II (a.k.a. Bill de Blasio)

36 posted on 11/24/2015 1:41:34 PM PST by BillyBoy (Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
in honor of Algonquin J. Calhoun

"Just how much ground did we lose while our attorney was here, your honor?"

37 posted on 11/24/2015 1:44:44 PM PST by eddie willers
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To: exit82
I am still trying to figure out how DeBlasio’s lesbian wife became straight again.

Cosmo Kramer.

38 posted on 11/24/2015 1:47:09 PM PST by eddie willers
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To: Brad from Tennessee

his son needs a hair cut, he looks ridiculous with that big afro. that style went out 30 years ago. He looks like a clown.


39 posted on 11/24/2015 8:12:56 PM PST by Coleus (For the sake of his sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.)
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To: Coleus

[his son needs a hair cut, he looks ridiculous with that big afro. that style went out 30 years ago. He looks like a clown.]

I have a theory. Since de Blasio is so politically conscious and phony I think he encourages the boy to wear an Afro so no one will have any doubt about his racial composition.

Since de Blasio’s wife is an admitted lesbian, was junior conceived artificially?


40 posted on 11/25/2015 12:33:00 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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