Rhodes Scholar from Georgia Tech arrested at ICE protest

Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 7/20/19 | Maureen Downey

[madprof98]

Police arrested a Rhodes Scholar from Georgia Tech at this week’s Jewish-led Never Again Action protest at the Atlanta Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office.

In a guest column, Calvin Runnels, a native of Baton Rouge, explains why he protested and why more Americans ought to join him. (He and another activist were charged with disorderly contact under a city ordinance during Monday’s protest, which drew more than 100 people.)

Runnels graduated Tech last year with a bachelor's degree in biochemistry. One of 32 Rhodes Scholars in 2018, he is pursuing postgraduate studies at the University of Oxford. He is the sixth student in Tech history to be named a Rhodes Scholar, which is one of the most prestigious student honors in the world.

Runnels, 22, was a Beckman Coulter Petit Undergraduate Research Scholar, Stamps President’s Scholar and a member of the Honors Program, Diversity and Inclusion Fellow. He is a transgender male and served as the student co-chair of the campus LGBTQIA Action Team.

[madprof98]

The last line of the excerpt pretty much sums up why this person was named a Rhodes Scholar . . . and why "he" is making a career out of protesting.

[PGalt]

Why not grant him the Nobel Peace Prize also. He is one messed up, irrational idiot.

[Trump20162020]

Wow, a whole 100 people in Atlanta.

[Da Coyote]

Oxford has been as infected as have our “elite” universities.
Check out any of their latest pics and the wierdos are there.

[HangnJudge]

What price is paid for being prevented from entering the Kingdom of God?

[House Atreides]

Why not grant him the Nobel Peace Prize also. He is one messed up, irrational idiot.
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Throw in the Congressional Medal of Honor and an honorary doctorate also.

[Lurker]

Rhodes equals Rhodesia equals racism.

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[A_Former_Democrat]

Yep

Might have a high IQ

But very low on the common sense scale

Maybe Lorena Bobbitt could help him

[Gay State Conservative]

OK,that does it! I'm convinced! No more southern border! If a “Rhodes Scholar” in his twenties demands it then it must be done!

Hang on! IIRC BillyBob was also a Rhodes Scholar and he's a proven rapist...and the jury's still out on whether or not he was a child diddler. So maybe the demands of Rhodes Scholars aren't worthy of respect after all.

Also,IIRC Cecil Rhodes,after whom the "scholarships" are named,was a vicious racist who caused massive suffering of *African* Africans in the 1800s. He was also a flaming fag...

[PGalt]

: ) Yes, the clown is a superhero.

[Gay State Conservative]

Not just Rhodesia...all of southern Africa it would seem.

[Celtic Conservative]

Clinton was a rhodes scholar. Just sayin’.

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[VeniVidiVici]

The woman Calvin

[knarf]

Cecil John Rhodes PC (5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902)[1] was a British businessman, mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896. An ardent believer in British imperialism, Rhodes and his British South Africa Company founded the southern African territory of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe and Zambia), which the company named after him in 1895. South Africa's Rhodes University is also named after him. Rhodes set up the provisions of the Rhodes Scholarship, which is funded by his estate. He also put much effort towards his vision of a Cape to Cairo Railway through British territory.

I guess what I'm trying to say is .... ya ... so ?

[devane617]

Ohhhh, OK.

[rktman]

Sorta kinda puts to bed the ‘roads scholar=intelligence’ idea. Sorta kinda like getting a ‘no bell’ prize for merely existing. Or at least the promise that you’re gonna be awesome and do something even wonderfuller. Isn’t greta the green nominated? You know, the teen from sweden who flies around the globe lecturing people about, well, flying around the globe and killing muvver erf.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Cory Booker is a Rhodes Scholar. Enough said.

[FreedomPoster]

We get 50+ in my tiny neighborhood pub on a decent Friday night. I think it may exceed the fire marshal limits, if anyone bothered to look.

[originalbuckeye]

The Rhodes Scholarships, the Fulbright Scholarships, etc., are only given to Leftists. Because, you know, only Leftists are ‘smart’.

[Celtic Conservative]

Just shows the political leanings and overall quality of individuals named as Rhodes scholars.

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