Posted on 05/31/2018 5:16:18 AM PDT by Kevin in California
At Stanford University on Tuesday night, a black student enrolled at the institution stood up and denounced Black Lives Matter for several reasons saying it is funded by white liberals and founded by three black lesbians and does not champion the need for strong black families with husbands and fathers as the role models.
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At Stanford University on Tuesday night, a black student enrolled at the institution stood up and denounced Black Lives Matter for several reasons saying it is funded by white liberals and founded by three black lesbians and does not champion the need for strong black families with husbands and fathers as the role models.
The freshman made the comments during a Make Stanford Great Again event hosted by the College Republicans, which featured Turning Point USAs Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens, the latter of whom is a black woman who has been thrust into the national spotlight in recent tweets by Kanye West and President Donald Trump that praise her for her Im-not-a-victim message.
Emboldened by Owens, the student stood up during the Q&A and spoke about how he had researched Black Lives Matter and found it severely lacking when it comes to defending straight black men and discussing the need for black men to be strong fathers and husbands.
Im cool with gay black people, my best friend is a gay black dude. Like, Im not homophobic, the student said. But Im just saying, Ive been researching Black Lives Matter and Ive been understanding the politics and how they are funded by white liberals. And recently Ive been feeling like [BLM is] white liberals in black face. Its because the white liberals are all about feminism, LGBT white liberals dont really care about black people. I realize, white liberals dont really care about me, bro. Im off the plantation, bro! Im off the plantation, bro!
I escaped the plantation, bro, he continued. Im empowered. They dont want me to have power. They want to keep me dependent. But Im realizing this. They put white liberal ideas LGBT, women, non-binary, white feminism, all that Hillary Clinton stuff put it in black face!
The energetic student received claps and high fives as he spoke. (Below is a portion of his comments on video. His entire time at the mic can be seen here).
After the event, Owens declared it a sign of a budding Black Revolution.
The world is changing before our eyes, she tweeted out. Tonight at Stanford, a black student stepped to the mic. He said he used to support Black Lives Matter until he researched their lies. He shouted to a packed room BUT NOW IM FREE. The Black Revolution is unfolding and its beautiful.
I am just trying to find truth
In an exclusive telephone interview with The College Fix on Wednesday, the student 20-year-old freshman Ebbie Banks spoke about what inspired him to come to Turning Points event and speak up.
I am just at a place right now where I am just trying to find truth, he said. To be honest, I am not either liberal or conservative I am not even in the middle. I feel like both sides have partial truths, but not the whole truth. I am just trying to get as many different perspectives as I can. Engage in new ideas, explore new ideas.
That desire can be traced back to what Banks calls the most traumatic experience so far in his young life. Growing up, he said he was pretty liberal. Then he was falsely accused of sexual assault, he said, and the white liberals who were supposed to support him and hear his side of the story instead turned their backs on him.
The white liberals were very eager to demonize me and see me as a monster before they had all the facts, Banks said. The left only acknowledges certain kinds of victimhood but then my trauma doesnt get acknowledged and validated.
He said the incident took place in the summer after his junior year in high school. He attended a theater camp that enrolled predominantly white students, and he was among a handful of black students there. He said he engaged in a consensual sexual act with a white female student, but soon after rumors spread that he assaulted her. He was never contacted by police or administrators, the entire affair was rumor-driven, he said.
People were looking at me like I was a fucking monster, like I wasnt human, he told The Fix. I cried every day for a month. I was depressed out of my mind. It just felt so unfair.
So for the longest time I wanted people to acknowledge what I had gone through, sympathize with my pain, but I realized no one on the left was going to validate my victimhood. If I got stopped by the police I could talk about that with white liberals, but once you talk about being falsely accused, its a taboo subject. I felt that burden of suffering in silence you just feel isolated.
Eventually, Banks said he decided to let go of his anger over the incident.
It wasnt productive for me to always be stuck in my victimhood, he said. I can either stay in it and feel sorry for myself or empower myself and try to get my shit together.
On Tuesday night, listening to Owens be a victor and not a victim message, it resonated strongly with Banks, he said, inspiring him to give the message that he did.
A lot of this stuff I alluded to yesterday came from an emotional place, he said. She spoke to me when she was talking about the victimhood culture, freeing yourself from the victimhood culture helped me overcome my trauma.
I was a victim but I dont need to obsess over it and have it control me and rule me and have it become who I am, Banks said. Candace was talking about not having a victim mentality I really felt that.
Banks said he isnt ready to join the College Republicans just yet, but he does like to go to their events and hear things out. Meanwhile, he said he plans to attend left-of-center events as well and continue doing online research on issues that matter to him.
I feel like conservatives dont like to act like racism is a problem, but then again, white liberals like to act like false accusations are not a problem, Banks said. Ive felt like even here at Stanford Ive had trouble finding places where I can find support to help me overcome it.
The underground railroad is coming into the sunlight. Liberals are no doubt terrified. The "Uncle Tom" card just might be expiring.
The morning is starting well. I saw a Diamond & Silk interview on Fox this morning and read this. Be American, not a skin color.
Great find Kevin.
Encouraging. Inspiring.
Thanks for posting.
I expect what he will find is open to debate on the conservative side listening to his reasoning and coming up with counter arguments, while on the lib side he will get ridicule.
The USMC is a first step towards truth and honor.
When politically convenient, Big Media will now identify the RACE of each individual about whom they report.
Unless they’re a violent black criminal at large, of course.
This is a young man struggling, finding his way, and it’s beautiful. A right of passage. It gives me hope.
There go his chances for a scholarship at 100 colleges of his choice, and a highly-paid job with the democrat party.
They will destroy him.
I've wondered,from time to time,what Bo Snerdley's private life is like.Does he get hate mail? Threats? Any other kind of ugliness...from blacks *or* whites?
Whoever is funding Candace Owens should start putting up random billboards throughout the country simply stating, “I’m off the Plantation, Are you?”
all that Hillary Clinton stuff put it in black face!
I like it!
Good for him!
18%....... we will change the political landscape if only 18% of blacks become enlightened and leave the plantation.
That might actuall be happening.
(15 % might actually be enough)
So his problem is he does not like liberal white people. Not sure how this is a good thing.
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