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Posted on 03/20/2026 6:28:33 PM PDT by matt04
The Greater Springfield NAACP wants colleges — including the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst College and Holyoke Community College — to address surging Turning Point USA chapters on their campuses.
The conservative group ramped up here and around the country after founder and spokesman Charlie Kirk was shot and killed during an event at a Utah university in September.
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Yeah.. especially White students…
If black students opened their minds, they’d be pleasantly surprised how welcome they are at TPUSA.
But that is a BIG “if.”
To the NAACP, any “advancement of colored people” is bad for business.
This is why they oppose TPUSA.
Nation Association for the Advancement of (certain) Colored People.
If black students opened their minds, they’d be pleasantly surprised how welcome they are at TPUSA.
Sounds like the NAACP has serious concerns, so ... maybe more and more black students HAVE opened their minds to conservatism.
Praying so.
Can you imagine the reaction in the press if a conservative organization asked for an investigation into the opening of NAACP chapters?
Did those “top democracy researchers” address this?
The Greater Springfield NAACP wants colleges — including the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst College and Holyoke Community College — to address surging Turning Point USA chapters on their campuses.
The conservative group ramped up here and around the country after founder and spokesman Charlie Kirk was shot and killed during an event at a Utah university in September.
Turning Point also has a chapter at Westfield State University, according to Turning Point’s website and on-campus advertisements for the group’s events.
“The concern is that TPUSA has a track record of opposing (diversity, equity and inclusion), of undermining the teaching of Black history and promoting narratives that are aligned with some extreme political ideologies,” said Bishop Talbert W. Swan II, president of the Greater Springfield NAACP.
Swan said he’s heard concerns from members of the UMass Amherst chapter of the NAACP.
“We ought to be proactive and not reactive,” Swan said.
Turning Point promotes itself, like Kirk did, as a facilitator of debate and free speech on campus.
Swan said colleges should be a place where ideas are debated.
But: “Free speech doesn’t mean freedom from accountability or carte blanche to create hostile environments,” Swan said.
Black students and students from other marginalized communities could be made to feel targeted and unsafe, Swan said.
“Questioning whether or not they belong on the campus because of the color of their skin,” Swan said. “That creates a hostile learning environment, and these institutions have a duty to address that before it escalates and not after.”
In an oft-quoted example, Kirk questioned the qualifications of Black airline pilots while speaking on a podcast in 2024.
“If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, ‘Boy, I hope he’s qualified,” he said, according to SNOPES.com and other outlets.
Leaders of TPUSA chapters locally didn’t respond to messages on social media Friday.
On its Instagram page, the UMass Amherst chapter says it plans a resurgence this semester. But it doesn’t list any recent events.
“Turning Point USA is not an active, registered student organization on the UMass Amherst campus,” said university spokeswoman Emily Gest in a written statement. “UMass Amherst is committed to upholding free speech and academic freedom, while fostering an environment where all members of our community can teach, learn, live, and work with dignity and respect. Harassment and discrimination have no place on our campus. Equity and inclusion remain central to our mission as a public university dedicated to serving the common good.”
The Holyoke Community College chapter posted photos of students at the college’s involvement fair.
Amherst College’s chapter is referenced on Turning Point’s website, as is Westfield State University’s chapter.
Swan had not heard about the Westfield chapter.
The bishop wrote Chancellor Javier Reyes, of UMass Amherst, and Presidents Michael A. Elliott, of Amherst College, and George Timmons, of Holyoke Community College.
The NAACP is calling for:
a formal institutional inquiry into Turning Point USA activities on campus;
a review of the impact on Black and marginalized students;
enhanced protections to ensure student safety;
and a reaffirmation of commitment to DEI and accurate Black history education.
Swan also is seeking transparency in how the institutions are addressing the issue.
You can say you support free speech, etc, however, as soon as you demand a “formal institutional inquiry into Turning Point USA activities on campus” that goes right out the window.
POC are raised to believe in the oppressed/Oppressor )Critical Theory) to keep the scheme going.
Groups such as TPUSA believe in the rugged individualism, personal responsibility and economic freedom. I say come on in the waters fine !
As usual, El Rush-Bo had it right.
El Rush-Bo frequently referred to the NAACP as the “NAALCP”
The National Association for the Advancement of Liberal Colored People.
Any free-thinking black person is immediately condemned and labeled an Uncle Tom.
How about a National Association for the Advancement of MAGA People?
NAAMP!
Yeah. Christianity is such bologna
Good point. Maybe those young black Americans ARE leaving the plantation and are moving to freedom.
Don’t count on Smith or Mt Holyoke turning a corner. Would have loved to see him converse with those women.
Either the naacp is sadly misinformed or just an anti-Christian organization
And just how is TPUSA’s position a threat to blacks?
Excellent observation.
This tells me who the bigots are.
Re “… a reaffirmation of commitment to DEI and accurate Black history education...”
In other words, the communist insurgents aren’t happy that TPUSA is waking up Whitey…
@NAACP
Ask yourselves, when did all that is good and decent become a threat to you? I thought you were into that free speech stuff.
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