Black Occidental Student Attacked as ‘Trash’ for Breaking with Black Student Movement

by AWR HAWKINS

Occidental College student Alton Luke II–who is black–says he has been ostracized by former friends and was attacked via social media as “trash” this past week for cutting ties with the black student movement on campus.

Luke says the treatment he is receiving is the same treatment he has seen heaped on others with different views and he just does not want to be part of it. In fact, he indicated that the “hostility of some protesters toward those with different views is a major reason he is not supporting their current uprising.”

And according to the Los Angeles Times, Luke is by no means alone. Brown University professor Glenn Loury–who is also black–says he is “appalled” by racial protesters’ allegation of “endemic racism” on Brown’s campus. Loury said he has been “lavished with university resources for his [academic] work and well treated by open-minded colleagues.”

He recently took to Facebook to oppose calls for “revolutionary reshaping” aimed at altering the climate on campus “through diversity training’ and putting racial quotas in place to ensure more minority professors were hired.  Loury said these actions are a recipe for “intellectual mediocrity.”

Breitbart News previously reported that students in the diversity protests at Yale are demanding “safe spaces” from offensive speech while simultaneously lambasting Silliman College master Nicholas Christakis and his wife Erika for supporting freedom of speech and of expression. One protester yelled vulgarity-laced tirades at Christakis, telling him students did not want an “intellectual space” but one free from the things with which they disagree.

The LA Times reports that “nearly 800 students, faculty, staff and others sent a letter” to campus president Peter Salovey after the incident to defend the Christakis’s “free speech rights.” The letter also indicated that many of the diversity demands currently being pushed would prove “a menace to the cause of liberal education because they are clearly driven by a particular political agenda devoted to conversion instead of intellectual exploration.”

Some of the nearly 800 students who signed the letter were formerly among the protesters, but have soured on the movement because of the tactics employed and the danger they believe the movement poses to free speech.

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Besides the fact that their are so many miss guided young people taking up space in colleges. That have lots of engery & no damn focus.

I believe they are being influenced by 'outside ', older forces who are probably redundant. And are actually missing the civil rights movement. After all.. Where would their organizations & funding and famous/ infamous lives be without the illusion of crisis, like it is 1950-1970. ?

So now here we are... After all the struggle for equality & rights in a white society.
Black on black crime.
Black voters turning on a black Presidental candidate.
Black students turning on black students.
All the while screaming.. " Don't stereotype us "

Yea okay.. This " Us against them " philosophy isn't working for you.
Unless.. You really want the rest of the country to ignore you. And the police to( really) hound you & the DOJ to add more of your groups to the list of ' hate groups'

Yeah, that's always been the way of things for any "movement" that is meant to unite people.

I think it's human nature at work.

They all start out as Rah-Rah, let's celebrate ourselves or fight-our-oppressors things, then move from there to mutual masturbation festivals and or attack-all-traitor binges.

You can see it in so-called "patriotic" movements, all "liberation" movements, all religious piety movements, and even in the ANTI-movement movements.

I learned my lessons about them when I was a kid, and discovered first, that the "we love America" people all turned into "we hate you" squads, as soon as anyone grew a beard or long hair, and when the "freedom of appearance" people condemned anyone who CUT their hair, as being a traitor to the cause.

equality and rights, Im not sure many understand the purpose

black on black crime, will exist as long as white on white crime does,, thats equal


black voters 'turning' on a black president will exist as long as white people 'turn' on white presidents,, thats equal

black students 'turning' on black students will exist as long as white students 'turn' on white students

these were not the concerns, these are , as igor put them, human nature that is on a personal level


the equality continuously struggled with is within the SYSTEM on a citizens level

not an equality that serves to make a homogenous society of non diverse causes or interests or opinions,,,,,


but people will continue to confuse the two

wonder how those Pansies ever expect to earn a Living,when they are offended by two Raindrops falling together?
What the Hell is happening to those Schools?

much more got done in the PAST


dont get me wrong, I dont agree with every protest or every boycott, but I am just as glad that such solutions are available to us




protests and boycotts and those many ways citizens were able to utlize collective power should never have been 'the past' but should have continued just as regularly as being armed has,,,

the downside is that the instant media and net have really dumbed down logic and the ability to discern between opinions and actions that are individual, personal, and of little impact, from issues that are actually far reaching in their impact

for instance, many would protest if a fellow student called someone fat,,though thats just one powerless individual with an opinion

however, if that person is a professor at a school where its repeatedly shown that fat peoples grievances are repeatedly ignored,, thats a much more far reaching and impactful situation that warrants highlighting and stigmatizing for change,,,

that being said,,,

my hope is that more young people will learn to voice grievances, its their future that our current decisions will affect,,,,and they are the ones that will be taking over from us one day

my hope is these more peaceful and useful tools will replace much of the violence, and killing, and even suicide

giving people a voice is liberating and uniting and people achieve quite a bit when working as a unit towards goals,,,,,

And...

This is what happens, when academic standards are dumbed down,
to allow even the dumbest people to become students.

do you believe that students can't find the job it's because the color of their skin? hell.......unless you're trutly blind since you've enter this world.