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Virginia Tech Uninvites Black Conservative Jason Reilly

Hank Berrien

Last week, Jason Reilly, a black conservative who has written on race relations for the Wall Street Journal for over twenty years and lectured on college campuses for nearly that long, saw his invitation to speak at Virginia Tech rescinded after he had been invited to speak by a member of the faculty roughly one month ago.

As Riley writes, the professor who issued the initial invitation backtracked, “citing concerns from his department head and other faculty members that my writings on race in The Wall Street Journal would spark protests.”

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