This disturbance became public with a tweet from a black woman who spells her name in Hebrew.
Isn’t snatching and removing someone’s hat a crime? Isn’t it a form of assault? How would black women feel if someone came over and forcibly confiscated their weave?
#noshame #MAGA pic.twitter.com/h14x9pAo9x
— al (@allie_vandee) August 19, 2017
Nidhi Prakash and two other journos write for Buzzfeed:
Two teenagers stirred up controversy at Howard University — a historically black college, or HBCU — on Saturday when they arrived at the campus wearing Make America Great Again paraphernalia, drawing a sharp response from the college’s students and prompting a Twitter thread from the university.
The high school students said Howard students approached them and criticized their Trump gear as they waited in line at the cafeteria — with one Howard student grabbing their hats and another saying “Fuck y’all.”
…The two white students, from Union City High School in Pennsylvania, told BuzzFeed News they were among a group of 30 teenagers on an organized trip to see sites in Washington, DC, where the college is based. They arrived at the campus around lunchtime, and headed for the cafeteria with their school chaperones.
Allie Vandee, 16, was one of the students wearing a MAGA hat and a Trump T-shirt. She complained about the incident on Twitter soon after leaving campus.
“We were not even through the front door to get through the cafeteria, and a man, a black man, walked, had walked through and took my friend Sarah’s hat right off her head,” Vandee said in a phone interview with BuzzFeed News.
I wonder if Nidhi Prakash has a dog in this fight?
A tweet three days ago from a female student at historically black Howard University:
And from the Washington Post today, a thinkpiece by a WaPo staffer:
The teenagers who wore MAGA hats to Howard aren’t martyrs for free speech
By Molly Roberts August 22 at 1:42 PMTwo teenage girls who wore “Make America Great Again” hats to Howard University last weekend are making a play to become the latest countrywide crusaders for free speech. Good luck with that.
The Pennsylvania high school students, who stopped by the historically black university for a bite to eat during a school trip to Washington, strolled into Howard’s campus dining hall Saturday decked out in pro-presidential apparel they had purchased the day before. It did not go over well.
“We were not even through the front door to get through the cafeteria, and a man, a black man, walked … through and took my friend Sarah’s hat right off her head,” one told Buzzfeed on Monday. Another man, she said, cursed at her. …
The Twitter account for Howard’s dining hall was more forthright: “We will take any action necessary to ensure that HU students feel safe& comfortable in our dining spaces. The group is no longer on campus.” …
As stifling to debate as the “safe space” argument can be at schools across the country, Howard is one of the few examples of the term at its purest and most persuasive. “Safety” as many students today use the word has little to do with physical harm and more to do with emotional discomfort. Safety at Howard, from its founding, has meant, well, safety.
… It was about the history of an institution that has always been a place where black students could say what they believed without fear of racist reprisal. On Saturday, that’s exactly what they did.
As many Howard students have already asked about their young visitors, what else did they expect?
Is this brouhaha really about the insensitivity of wearing Trump hats? Or is it about the insensitivity of wearing blonde hair that’s about 8 times longer than their shorts on the black coeds’ home turf?
For the term “Becky” see here.
Commenter Alec Leamas explains:
Some people are just Extra-Citizens with superior rights. Such as the right to snatch a hat from your head because they don’t like what it says.
Look Steve, our country has a long and sad history of white teenage girls killing black men in broad daylight. You need to get #woke.
And what does Molly Roberts look like? Like Becky with good hair:
Here are some definitions of Beckie and Becky on Urban Dictionary:
* beckie is probably the hottest name in the whole world. perfect for a hottie with gorgeous eyes. beckie’s have it all: looks, brains, boobs, you name it. a beckie will never let you down
MAN! She’s definately a ‘beckie.’
#wow#hot#fit#gorgy#rawr* hot white girls, or snobbish women
look at them beckys over there.
#beckies#beckys#white girls#dem girls#white hoes* The name of the best girlfriend a guy could wish for. Kind, pretty, good looking and absolutely amazing. If you have a girlfriend like this, then you are extremely lucky.
Guy 1: You going out with that becky girl?
Guy 2: Yeah
Guy 1: You lucky bastard…
#becky#amazing#pretty#sexy#cute
* Wait a minute, who was subject to racist reprisal? Oh well, at least four gorgeous White girls got vaccinated for jungle fever just before college.
* It wasn’t the MAGA hats and had nothing to do with Trump! All the black women on Twitter were outraged because these white girls (the ebonics term is “Beckies”) were getting a lot of attention from the black men. To paraphrase the great Colin Flaherty, “Don’t Make the Black Girls Angry!”
* For “yt’s,” there aren’t just sundown towns, there are plenty of places where one isn’t welcome any time of the day. I’ve had it several times, who else has been on the receiving end of assertive demands of “white boy go back to where you came from”?
They can be lucky they were girls. Had it been fellas who had tried to invade their safe space, the response might have been a little more assertive…
* I thought that Howard was founded to showcase black intellectual achievement in the nation’s capital as a rebuke to racial essentialists, with a student body especially burdened by the need to espouse beliefs concordant with reality in order to avoid racist reprisal against their fellow blacks in places not surrounded by the safety of the Federal government.
But thanks for blacksplaining reality to me. I guess Howard exists so black people can believe whatever the hell they want and have a “safe space” where they can physically intimidate anyone who might challenge those beliefs in any way.
* Those girls need a good rogering from a well endowed Black Man. They were trying to start something. I guarantee you they will be mothers of Children of Color in 5 years. I hope they are blackballed from employment until they apologize for their racism.
* Back in med school we had a lawyer come in and teach us about torts. He has us read a famous case in which a black man who was participating in (I think) a sales meeting at a hotel had a plate of food in his hands and a hotel employee snatched it from him.
The employee was successfully sued for assault (and possibly battery) even though he made no physical contact with the man. The violent snatching of something from someone’s hands was ruled assault.
* In his latest Podcast No. 93 with guest Douglas Murray (The Strange Death of Europe), the Jewish public intellectual Sam Harris said he had no idea what was meant by “The Jews will not replace us.” Evidently he wasn’t curious enough to google it.
* Surely the police for Howard University or Washington are issuing a statement any day about their arrest of the male Negro who assaulted (and what he did is, incontrovertibly, assault) these teenagers (possibly minors?) – or are the police in Washington recruiting officers from Rotherham now as part of an exchange programme?
Another point, though: where is Hell were the father, brother, or other male chaperone of these young ladies, and why in God’s name did he permit them to enter a cafeteria teeming with Negros unaccompanied. What vapid fools are they themselves to not know better?
Instinctively, I want to protect females of my race (its biochemically programmed into us all); intellectually, of course, I realise there is no stopping a determined suicide.
* Sailer for the most part seems to me to be taking a fairly distanced “wait-and-see” stance on Trump as President, which is smart given how unpredictable Trump is. On the current trajectory Trump is doing for HBD and immigration controls what Hitler did for eugenics or the Confederacy did for slavery. Historically extremists defending moderately extreme positions don’t usually succeed in making those positions more socially acceptable, they just make things much, much worse. Scott Adams is looking increasingly insane, don’t want to end up like that guy.
All these attempts to push the Overton window to the right seem to be backfiring badly and empowering even more lefty craziness. And the lefties do have the demographics and a lot of corporate clout behind them. The same way it took conservative Republicans to reach out to China (Nixon) or reach out to the Soviets (Reagan), it will probably require a moderate Democrat, ideally Asian, to speak sense on racial issues. But it may be too late.
