WHO CONTROLS SPEECH ON UNIVERSITIES? AND WHO SHOULD? AND THE THREAT FROM CHARLIE KIRK

 Each of us has unique experiences, but I will report in part on mine, acknowledging it is limited.  The reason for this, to discuss the change on campus brought by Charles Kirk.

I entered Tulane U. in New Orleans as a freshman in Sept. 1956.  In my Sociology course on race relations, during the half year course, there was only one lecture on black-white relations in New Orleans.  It was presented by Dr. Dan Thompson of Dillard U., also in New Orleans, a HBCU.  That lecture was not presented in person, but on tape.  Had Dr. Thompson delivered it in person, he might have been arrested for violating the state's segregation laws.  Tulane's Arts and Science College was all-male.  Females attended Newcomb College, similar to the sexual divisions at many private universities like Columbia and Harvard.  The uni. administrator for the Interfaith panel wanted each group to develop a basketball team or the like; leave politics alone.  But there were exceptions; a pastor at the Wesley Center (Methodist) quietly circulated a petition to free Morton Sobel, convicted with the Rosenbergs. My point, Tulane in the 1950s was basically a politically conservative university, but compared to the rest of the city, or to the rest of the South, there were some unexpected liberal bubbles perking up.  Not boiling the pot, but there.

    When very conservative publicist William Buckley came to address us in our large auditorium, some of us bood his points, but everyone could hear the points he was making.  Perhaps in club on foreign affairs, I recall debating a friend, son of Christian missionaries who had worked in China, on happenings in Laos.  I argued, using NY Times articles, that the Pathet Lao was winning elections and should be recognized; he that it was communist and they don't run elections fairly.  Both of us could present our arugments without trouble, but the audience was perhaps 20.  For the oratory contest, there was a larger crowd.   My topic, "Look Not to Outer Space."  Sci-fi films sometimes portrayed kindly aliens who would get all the nations of earth to work together.  I mentioned that idea, and those who looked to religion and God to bring peace on earth.  My point - if we were to have peace, we would have to make it, not outer space aliens or angels.  I won the gold medal. 

Despite the opposition of the local NAACP, on Sept. 9, 1960, New Orleans finally had its first modern sit-in, with 7 arrested from several local colleges.  Two of us were from Tulane, and the rules at the time; we would be suspended until proven innocent.  As that was unlikely on the local level, or even on low appellat levels, we might be expelled for years.  Within a week, the board of Tulane changed its rules;  it deemed the sit-in a political rather than a criminal act, and we were not expelled.  Suddenly many more on campus joined CORE, the organization leading the sit-ins.  When the 7 us first appeared in court, when the judge entered he threatened to cite us with contempt, as the 2 whites sat with the 5 black defendants and our attorneys.  That infuriated the judge.  All 7 of us became convicted felons.  The first sit-in brought other changes too.  The NAACP Youth Chapter quickly defied the adults, and joined the CORE picket lines with their own.  Soon, the adult NAACP withdrew its opposition, too.  Tulane telephonists were instructed to listen in to all calls to student activists.  When liberals sought to form an organization a few years later, the Dean's office lost the petition with the names.  Next year, around 1965 or 66 the new petition was accepted and a Young Liberals organization was recognized on Tulane campus.  Also a few black graduate students were enrolled at Tulane.  Leaders of the Tulane Young Libs debated Mrs. Gaillot on radio one Sunday morning.  She demanded to know their religion.  Bob Bullard quickly replied by asking about hers.  She had been excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church by the local Archbishop, that is deprived of receiving communion and the Catholic community.  On the radio she usually referred to a famous black minister as Martin Lucifer King and was vigorous in her defense of segregation..  Bullard and Bruce Kruger provided powerful voices to counter her strong segregationist sentiments.

Around this time I was teaching history at Dillard, an HBCU in NO.  The Tulane Young Libs had invited the new head of the Southern Conference Educational Fund, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth of Birmingham, to speak.  In October 1963 the Louisiana Un-American Activities Comm., in conjunction with NO DA Jim Garrison raided and arrested the then leader of SCEF and two attorneys who worked with it.  SCEF had been founded during the New Deal, and Mrs. Roosevelt had even been present at its inception.  After WWII it published glowing reports on how well integrated schools were doing.  Naturally, the LUAC would find it subversive.  LUAC  was headed by very conservative American Legionnaires, who were dismayed when the non-white territories of Hawaii and Alaska were admitted as American states.  Their fun organization would retain its title, the 40 and 8.  Now the Young Libs were inviting a black minister, the new leader of SCEF, an organization not popular with LUAC to address their first large meeting at Tulane.  I invited a Dillard student to accompany me to the Tulane meeting.  It went well.  Some of us decided to go for a pizza on nearby Maple St.  Rev. Shuttlesworth could not come with us.  We went to Ray's Pizza, a popular place with Tulanians, pulled 2 tables together and prepared to order.  The middle-ated waitress came and announced she would not take our order, as we were a mixed group (the Dillard student),  Should we have a sit-in, get arrested?  I looked at the only black, my guest.  I did not say anything, nor did he, but he slowly nodded his head, no.  I had not brought the topic up beforehand, because I did not expect trouble.   The student said no, so I made an excuse that we had to get across town, and left.  However, Cathy Cade, an activist started a who series of picketing of the Maple St. eateries, with large numbers of students going for a long time, and with the support of the Tulane Hullaballoo newspaper.  Viet Nam was also an issue on campus at Tulane, but I was not there.

My next teaching post was another HBCU, the fairly new Southern U. in NO, an offshoot of the major campus in Baton Rouge (which I think at the time was the largest black university in the world).  There certainly WAS activism on this campus.  In spring 1969 a small number of students pulled down the American flag from the pole at the front of the university, and replaced it with a Black Nationalist flag, black, red, and green.  So began a black nat. boycott of classes.  I know faculty had free speech, and both pro and anti members spoke on stage at different points.  I recall a light-skinned professor saying," I may look white, but my heart is as black as yours is."  Eventually, Gov. Mc Keithen came to the campus for the first time, and he had no trouble speaking.  His first words, please remove that flag (the black nat) before the tv cameras come.  He promised to improve conditions.  The student strike leaders sometimes brought their rifles to campus, and there was one episode 2 lines, police with loaded weaposn, and strikers.  Had a rock been thrown and there might have been tragedy.  But, after a time of staring at each other, the striker line dispersed.  Some students expelled, some faculty fired, and things went back the following year as if nothing had occurred.  For at least a month, most students had boycotted classes.  An Arab became the scapegoat, disrupting our way of doing things.  He was a radical, and a few years later wrote of glowing biography of w woman hijacker.  He was also a scholar who had published in major political science journals.  But he left shortly before he was to be deported.

Anti-war demos were visible examples of the left wing influence on American campuses.  But beneath the surface, there was a more important reason.  The Civil Rights Act promised to treat all applicants for job equally, but the EEOC soon interpreted this to mean quotas to get the number of professors to match the general population as best as possible.  It did not mean exactly the same - for example only high-schoo graduates would be in the pool for the quotas for possible admission to universities.  But over time, there were more quotas, for women, for this group, for that.  By the time affirmative action had taken on the name Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, it was a bureaucracy, in itself, and then promoting certain types of courses, and required courses to denigrate white males and instill the notion that all people of color are oppressed and deserve added boosts.  Soon, ANYONE WHO QUESTIONED THIS PREMISE ON CAMPUS WOULD BE MET WITH A LARGE CONTINGENT WHOSE JOBS AND PRESTIGE DEPENDED ON ACCEPTANCE OF THESE PREMISES.  A challenge was a personal insult and a threat.  So, in the 1990s when scholar Charles Murray sought to lecture about his results on IQ and race, there was rage by the campus left witn.  On one campus his auto was attacked, though I don't recall any serious injuries.  A woman law professor in Pennsylvania was constantly vilified because she  rejected the DEI presuppositions; they demanded she be fired, etc.  Insults.  When a biological female went on campus to denounce the unfairness of having been injured playing another female team with a trans male, who spike the ball so hard on the her that she was seriously injured.  But the pro-trans crowd prevented her from speaking, threatened her, had had her boxed in a room until help could free her.  UNIV. HIRES, DEI, MADE THE ESTABLISHMENT IN MOST UNIVERSITIES NOT MERELY SYMPATHETIC TO THE LEFT, BUT USING (OFTEN DISTORTED RESEARCH) TO BOLSTER THE LEFT, AND USED ITS EMPLOYEES TO STIFLE ANY RIGHT WING OR OTHER CRITICISM.

    This is why Charlie Kirk is important.  He broke through.  He got people tp question the official line.  Some things he said, I certainly DO NOT AGREE WITH.  That is NOT the point.  He fought the established b.s. which the academics could not defend academically.  Kirk broke the bubble.  He brought an era of freedom, so one did not have to agree with him or DEI, or anyone else.  Free speech, free inquiry is important, especially at universities.  This is one more reason why his murder is a tragedy to all. 

Hugh Murray

THE GOVERNMENT AND THE LEFT WANT SOME BLACK HISTORY TO DISAPPEAR

  I just posted a comment on a site re the media and the US Govt and their refusal to recognize Black Nationalism and black extremism - which may best explain things like the cause of the black driver of the car into the Christmas parade, killing 6 whites, in Waukesha, Wisconsin in Nov or Dec 2021.  Many academics assert that blacks cannot be racists.  Of course they can, and they can be fascists too.  Hugh Murray

Blacks, like everyone else, can be racists, and can have thinking related to any political ideology. The largest black organization in the US in the 1920s, and which had influence far beyond, was the Universal Negro Improvement Assn., led by West Indian Marcus Garvey. He pushed for black dolls for black girls, the Black Cross nurses, and bought a ship for his Black Star line to return the American diaspora Back to Africa. He opposed the mulatto W.E.B. Du Bois and the then mainly white NAACP; and it may have worked to get the foreigner deported. The Garveyites in the 1920s appear to have worked with another large, similar organization of the 1920s, the KKK. Both sought to retain separation of the races. Even after his deportation, most Garveyites did not join the NAACP.

In the late 1920s, Stalin, a specialist on minorities, wanted the American Communist Party to become more active with blacks, and in the early 30s, a Finnish Party member was put on trial for racism in Harlem, tried, and found guilty by the CP, America's first show trial on racism. A CP front group fought the NAACP for control of the defence of the Scottsboro boys, young blacks accused of rape aboard a freight train in Alabama in 1931. Tho the NAACP hired Clarence Darrow, the radical International Labor Defense hire another top-flight attorney, who so successfully defended the blacks, that the ILD attorneys won 2 major ruling from the very conservative US Supreme Court, saving the lives of the blacks. The CP also promised a Black Belt of majority black counties in the South - an indirect appeal to the Garveyites.

By the mid-30s and Hitler's consolidation of power in Germany, Stalin decided to seek unity with moderates, colonialists, in the Popular Front. Some blacks felt betrayed and left the CP, like George Padmore and others who looked to Pan-Africanism. Garvey, angry at Mussolini for his invasion of Ethiopia (and at Stalin for supplying oil to Italy), Garvey asserted that his UNIA were the first fascists.

In the late 1950s the Black Muslims grew, and like the Garveyites, wanted racial separation. They were opposed to integration, the NAACP, CORE, SNCC. The Black Muslims made deals with the KKK and other segregationists. Malcolm X was ordered to negotiate with the KKK. After CORE began its Freedom Rides in 1961, George Lincold Rockwell, drove his counter - his "hate bus" from Virginia to New Orleans. Rockwell headed the small American Nazi Party. In New Orleans, he and his group also picketed the film Exodus, about the founding of Israel. The following month, Rockwell and several of his fellow Nazis, were invited guests at a large meeting of the Black Muslims in Washington, DC.

But because none of this fits the liberal distorted history of race in America, the media, the academics, the politicians pretend it does not exist.  Under President Biden, he wants to suppress white supremacy and ignore possible black supremists - even though the enormous amount of black on white crime and murder may indicate black supremacy is more of a problem that the white variety, which is more politically correct, especially to the far-left wing and corrupt Biden regime.  It may be politically correct, but historically incorrect.

WAUKESHA - TERROR AT CHRISTMAS PARADE

 If a criminal with social media had attacked the views of BLM and denounced the George Floyd riots in many cities in 2020, if this man were a white supremist, and one late afternoon jumped into his car, ran through traffic barriers to get into the parade and then hit, rolled over, and killed 6 blacks and injured numerous others, there would be a storm in the major media about the white racist terrorist ,menace to America. But when a Black who supports BLM and the Floyd "protests" in many cities in 2020, gets into his car and ignores the traffic barriers to get into the Christmas parade in Waukesha, hitting, rolling over, and killing at least 6 now, and injuring numerous more, the media ignores the Black Nationalist ideology that may have inspired this terrorist attack. And Atty. Gen. Garland says not a word about a threat of Black Nationalist terrorists. Reality would ruin his support of Critical Race Theory in schools.

        The Establishment (elite, academedia complex, etc.) prefer to leave this as the case of a lone-nut criminal who had low bail.  They have no desire to inquire into his ideology, his anti-white and anti-Jewish racist posts on his social media.  The major media prefer to propagate the lie that only whites can be racists, only whites can be privileged.  I repeat, if a white had done this to a Black parade, if he would not have been lynched immediately by the onlookers, the media would be having sermons on white racism for a year on "news" programs and in schools.

      

    Hugh Murray