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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They should have used the 2 of them as fuel for the fire. She looks like she’d contribute plenty. The knowledge that was probably in those books likely outweighed the worth of those 2 ignoramuses. How could he have possibly been hired by a library?
I don't doubt anything you say. Indeed, I was a public librarian and I saw Hillary's "What Happened?" coming down the pike, I'd grit my teeth and display that tripe. Why? Because a public library is there for the "public good" and, well, she got a few million votes. After it had been taken out 4x and was gathering dust, I'd gently put it into the "DONE" bin, regardless if that meant mulch, resale, or trash.
But BURNING? That's not someting I'd do to even her book.
This is probably extreme and it's not perfect, but a book-burning librarian is up there with a black Klansman and a free-market socialist.
IF the video showed him actually setting fire to books, be they conservative or not, then he is a fascist/communist/black racist. So the weasel word “appears” needs to be further analyzed vis-à-vis what the video showed or did not show.
If he poured an accelerant on books that were later burned, then he is a “accessory fascist/communist/black racist”.
This type of cowardly “legal cover” wording is spreading like crotch rot on a hot day in a men’s locker room where everyone shares the same jockstrap.
Thanks for adding value to this discussion.
Book burning is reprehensible.
Like all freedoms the Left extinguishes, why can’t they allow the thoughts with which they strongly disagree to be exposed and rejected? We didn’t have to censor that nutjob who had his cult sell everything and get ready for the big flying saucer landing.
Just disprove and discard the faulty ideas.
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