Posted on 09/18/2023 9:08:27 AM PDT by NohSpinZone
For months, University of California President Michael V. Drake has been unnerved by a series of security threats at his Berkeley home: Racist graffiti. A smashed window. A break-in. Trespassers who jumped a fence surrounding the property that was erected in March.
In one particularly disturbing attack in May, a vandal spray-painted racial slurs and profanity across the front and back of the presidential residence. Drake, the UC system's first Black president in its 155-year history, was not at home. But the attack shocked the UC and Berkeley community, led to an ongoing hate crime investigation by local law enforcement and fueled alarm over the need for better security for Drake and his wife, Brenda.
Regents, however, have not come up with a workable plan — and they are still looking for solutions. A majority rejected a proposal to use private funds to buy a new, reportedly $12 million home for Drake in a 13-7 vote at a closed session meeting late Wednesday.
The high price tag was a major issue for those who voted no, but regents emphasized that they were committed to finding other alternatives.
"We are very concerned about making sure President Drake and his family are safe and secure based on the horrific attack that occurred," UC Board of Regents Chair Rich Leib said after the meeting. "But we will not be going forward with this proposal."
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OK, so how long before the cops figure out that it's actually another long line of race hoaxes? Sounds like a great way for this guy to get sympathy to get that $12M home that was denied to him,
Obviously, fences don’t work.
My money goes on fake hate crimes done by Auntie Fah and BLM for the sole purpose of inciting racial divide.
Just tell him to stop defacing his own property with racist graffiti.
Problem solved without further expense.
You’ve got to be kidding. In Berkeley? They have no cameras? Why does this stuff not happen in Kentucky or Iowa or South Carolina? But only in hyper-liberal Berkeley?
Just ask the black people to stop with the hoaxes. I’m sure they will be reasonable.
How about security cameras? Don’t they want to know who done it?
100%chance this is a liberal
Exactly what I was thinking as a possibility. I wonder how they came out with the cost so fast....no so-called security cameras?
Jussie Smollett territory.
LOL.
This sounds just like the work of the same MAGA-extremists who roam downtown Chicago on sub-zero January nights, stalking black and queer actors out for 2AM food runs for abuse.
Did the cops check the garage for partially used spray paint cans and his finger tips for paint residue? They could’ve found a noose as well.
Leftist activists, black or white, generating a “racism is alive and well” meme. It is not to “target” the UC president. They are just using him and his race to promote their “white supremacy” narratives.
Hmmm, maybe a Supreme Court justice or Federal Judge should move next door to him. It would be illegal for people to harass him then.
and for trying to get him a $12,000,000 home, with the included kickbacks worked into the price.
Call the poli...oh never mind.
If you don’t have enough racist white supremacists you can always conjure a few up.
Check
A college system that openly and actively discriminates on the basis of race*
cannot
be surprised when some apparently-racist backlash comes its way.
* in funding, in campus activities, in coursework/indoctrination programs, in admissions, in hiring, in promotions, in student aid, in nearly 24/7 propaganda press releases and website postings, you name it. You couldn’t find a more comprehensively racist institution outside of Nazi Germany or some other USA colleges (including a good number of additional schools right there in the once-great State of Californnication: many of the community colleges, San Francisco State University, and yes even Stanford has demonstrated repeated discriminatory tendencies in some of its admissions and financial aid policies, decisions, actions)
If we ever hope to restore human dignity and civil liberties in America, we need to dismantle the racist educational system — one “diversity enforcement office” and one “LBQXZBS+ Inclusion Program” and one “Equality and Social Justice Studies Department” at a time.
I’ll take “Things that never happened” for $1000, Alex.
Affirmative Action hire?
That’s what’s racist. And if this is the case, then naturally there will be pushback.
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