Campus Republicans at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte held an affirmative action bake sale yesterday, joined by District 12 Republican Congressional candidate Vernon Robinson.
Some students complained that UNCC discriminates against them because it doesn’t discriminate for them. Really.
UNC Charlotte does not have affirmative action on campus and some students said they find that discriminatory.
“We feel that it is violating our rights and we are in protest because you are not on a college campus to be racist, to be a separatist,” said Lenwood Thompson III, a student for affirmative action. “You are here to learn from other cultures and learn what college has to offer.”
Mr. Thompson is saying, I think, that opposing racial favoritism makes one a racist and separatist. Wouldn’t it be nice if the American culture unequivocally embodied and endorsed the value of treating all people without regard to their race, so that he could learn something of value from being exposed to it.
They could have chosen a college w/that criteria.
Who were these college Republicans making a statement to if there wasn’t Affirmative Action on their campus?
Seems to me that this Vernon Robinson guy just needs one of those Jesse Helms “white hands” campaign commercials to complete his Southern Strategy starter set.
–Cobra
They were obviously making a statement against AA. It exists in other campuses, and businesses, after all.
You know what really bothers me? That his idiot calls himself “Lenwood Thompson III”. I wonder what the I and II were like?
Dom
So, one is only allowed to protest national policies if the policies are practiced on that particular campus? Or is free speech available on every college campus?
Sharon writes:
>>>”So, one is only allowed to protest national policies if the policies are practiced on that particular campus? Or is free speech available on every college campus?”
Not at all. I never said that College Republicans, vegetarians or the Flat Earth Society should be banned from protesting. Just as my criticism of said groups is allowed.
–Cobra
Why criticize them? Seems I remember anti-abortion protests on college campuses, as well, when no abortions were performed there.