Posted on 02/20/2021 6:57:18 AM PST by massmike
Local activist and rapper Cameron "C-Grimey" Williams was fired from the Chattanooga Public Library on Wednesday after allegedly burning library books by conservative authors.
Williams, known for his role organizing protests last year against police brutality, was placed on paid administrative leave from his role at the library in December after video surfaced of him apparently burning books by then-President Donald Trump and conservative commentator Ann Coulter.
In a video posted temporarily on Instagram, Williams appeared to burn copies of Coulter's "How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)" and Trump's "Crippled America" in an outdoor fire, spraying each with lighter fluid. "FDT," a Trump protest song by YG and Nipsey Hussle, played in the background.
Williams believes his firing is a show of political retaliation and racism from the library and the community member who reported him.
"I really believe that this was political. It's definitely a perpetuation of white supremacy. None of this would have never ever ever been a problem if someone who doesn't believe in me speaking for equality for Black people wouldn't have reported it."
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Racist ping.
I agree, it’s political. Free speech and free expression are tenets of our political system, as opposed to fascist or communist systems practiced elsewhere. By violating those political concepts, you’re being punished. So Mr. Grimey, in the words of Donald Trump, “you’re fired!”
Any effort to hold blacks accountable for unlawful destructive behavior is by definition racisss.
Sarcasm off.
----Henrich Heine
Right out of Nazi Germany.
And yet they call conservatives fascists. The world is going mad. Again.
He could learn to code except that requires an IQ over room temperature.
It took the blood of 73,000,000 people to sanitize our world from WWII 1939-1945. Next time it will be in the billions.
They seem nice.
Put on paid administrative leave ???????
FIRE HIS LAME ASS!
He was fired because the idea of burning books is offensive to most librarians.
He was fired because the idea of burning books is offensive to most librarians.
Little c grimey needs to be set on fire.
Does that library not have any Ray Bradbury?
The headline is misleading Being put on “paid administrative leave” isn’t being fired.
“The investigation determined that [Williams] violated City and Library policies by improperly removing items from the Library’s collections.”
So, he stole from his employer.
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