Following the October 7 massacre of Israeli civilians by Hamas, college campuses and streets of major US cities have been filled with rioters chanting anti-Israel slogans and often explicitly demonstrating their fealty to Hamas. As is clear from numerous photographs, most of these protestors conceal their faces.
This is true even of less violent protests. One example is the 100-plus congressional staffers who <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4300664-congressional-staffers-hold-vigil-ceasefire-capitol/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">staged a walkout</a> on Capitol Hill, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Photos show that nearly all the staffers were wearing medical face masks. Presumably, when defying the will of your boss, and the people who elected him or her, it’s best to remain anonymous. And the cowardice extends beyond Capitol Hill.
<a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/10/20/daily-signal-reporters-capture-stark-differences-between-pro-israel-pro-palestine-protests/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According</a> to coverage from the Daily Signal, many participants at a George Washington University Vigil for the Martyrs of Palestine” covered their faces. Daily Signal Reporter Mary Margaret Olohan was given a <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/tag/masks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">face mask</a> and told to wear one by the pro-Palestine participants so “they” wouldn’t identify her later in pictures.” It’s unclear who “they” is and even more unclear what the result would be of being identified, but the fact remains that pro-Palestine protesters hide behind masks.
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But when looking at the history of mask bans, crime, and even France’s so-called “burqa ban,” it begins to make sense.
In response to the COVID-19 virus, many cities <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/these-are-the-states-with-mask-mandates">required</a> that individuals cover their faces when in a building or in close proximity to other people. People disagreed over the effectiveness of this strategy, but even if these measures were justified, most people are now delighted to go back to semi-normal, maskless life. That is, except, for those protesting in favor of Hamas, a US State Department <a href="https://www.state.gov/foreign-terrorist-organizations/">designated terror group</a>. To understand, it helps to look at the history of masking and its connection to crime.
In 2019 the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) published “America&#8217;s Mask Bans in the Age of Face Recognition Surveillance” denouncing mask bans. Mask bans in the United States <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/05/us/mask-mandate-kkk-coronavirus-pandemic.html">date</a> back to New York in 1845 when they were enacted to quell violence between renters and landlords. Later, mask bans were <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/1999/unmasking-klan">enacted</a> in states Florida, Alabama, West Virginia, and some other southern states in an attempt to stymie the Ku Klux Klan and make it easier for police and civilians to identify Klan members and their supporters.  Most of these mask mandates, <a href="https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/anti-mask-laws/">according</a> to Middle Tennessee State University’s Free Speech Center, “…use neutral language, typically banning mask wearing that intimidates others.” The key is that these bans were enacted to deter criminal activity and stop giving criminals the legal right to hide their identity when terrorizing blacks and Catholics.
The ACLU report, however, asserts that the actual reason for mask bans was that political leaders “felt that violent racist terrorism was making them look bad.” The report goes on to say that mask bans are an invasion of privacy, especially in our modern era of facial-recognition software and smartphones. In other words, in 2019, before the COVID lockdowns and mask mandates, the ACLU had an ax to grind against mask bans because mask bans help police catch criminals.
But anti-mask-ban rhetoric goes beyond the complaints that people might get caught committing crimes. Some alleged that mask bans, much like <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/modern-mathematics-confronts-its-white-patriarchal-past/">math</a> and <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/11/03/454316172/why-the-history-of-american-white-bread-is-anything-but-bland">sandwich bread</a>, are racist.
A June 2023 article in The Trace <a href="https://www.thetrace.org/newsletter/ski-mask-ban-racism-policing-fashion/">states</a>, “Philadelphia is considering a ban on ski masks to reduce gun violence. It’s reminiscent of other policies that criminalize Black fashion.” Given that a <a href="https://www.heart.org/en/news/2023/01/17/black-people-rarely-hit-the-ski-slopes-but-those-who-love-winter-sports-are-working-to-change-that#:~:text=It's%20true%20that%20Black%20skiers,changed%20over%20the%20past%20decade.">mere 1.5%</a> of those hitting the slopes in 2021-2022 were Black, this is a strange way to characterize the ski mask. The article ignores the fact that the original purpose of mask bans was to ensure that Klan members could not hide from the law.
To be clear, not all criminals wear masks, and not all masked people are criminals. But the point stands that wearing a mask while protesting in support of vile ideas or while committing a crime serves no purpose other than hiding one’s identity to avoid accountability.
In 2020, mask mandates were au courant, and rioters at “<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/513902-cnn-ridiculed-for-fiery-but-mostly-peaceful-caption-with-video-of-burning/">Fiery But Mostly Peaceful</a>” protests <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/after-months-of-pleading-for-coronavirus-social-distancing-health-officials-supportive-of-protests-black-lives-matter-calls-them-too-dangerous/">hid</a> their faces as they rioted, <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/06/why-people-loot/612577/">looted</a>, and <a href="https://minnesotareformer.com/2021/05/27/one-year-later-few-charges-for-the-arson-and-destruction/">burned</a> down buildings. And the cowardice continues today with protestors in Western cities <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/13/israel-palestinian-colleges-hamas-rallies/">screaming</a> “from the river to the sea” (a chant meaning that from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, Israel should not exist) and physically assaulting Jews. Thanks to COVID-19 popularizing face masks, protesters today hide their faces, thereby making it difficult to identify and prosecute them, as they scream antisemitic slurs that would make a Grand Wizard blush (if you could see his face). And that is the point: pro-Hamas protestors wear masks to avoid accountability.
Not only is hiding one’s face bad for identifying criminals, it is also bad for civil society. Lawmakers in my home, France, agree.
<a href="https://www.iwf.org/2010/09/15/french-burqa-ban-passes-upper-house/">Since 2010</a> France has <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66634890">banned</a> wearing full face veils, including the <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/24118241">niqab and burqa</a>, in public—a measure misleadingly referred to as the “burqa ban.” The law applies equally to people of all religions, ethnicities, and nationalities who wish to cover their face in a public or government building, and it remains perfectly legal to wear a <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/24118241">hijab or shayla</a> in public, as many Muslim women in France do. France banned face-coverings because lawmakers believed that they impeded “vivre ensemble,” or citizens’ ability to peacefully coexist and participate fully in French society. And the notion that face covering impedes a healthy society is grounded in solid research.
Researchers at UC Berkeley and Google <a href="https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/are_facial_expressions_the_same_around_the_world">compared</a> facial expressions across 144 countries and discovered that “people around the world tended to gaze in awe during fireworks displays, show contentment at weddings, furrow their brows in concentration when performing martial arts, show doubt at protests, pain when lifting weights, and triumph at rock concerts and competitive sporting events.” The data are clear—human beings from a tender age communicate with our faces just as much as our words. <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3997585/">According</a> to a National Institute of Health (NIH) study, “Even newborns show clear evidence of organized facial expressions defining distinct communicative states that respond to maternal care.”  Facial coverings stymie communication and interpreting emotions—two things that drive human interaction.
Emmanuel Levinas, a French philosopher, once <a href="https://wisela.org/daily-kavanah-wednesday-june-10/">wrote</a>, “The face speaks to me and thereby invites me to a relation; … the face opens the primordial discourse whose first word is obligation.” To put this in context, much of Levinas’s philosophy is rooted in what it means to encounter, or relate to other people. Seeing another person’s face calls upon us to be responsible to one another as human beings. It stands to reason that hiding one’s face is an attempt to abdicate one’s responsibility to others and to society.
The Klan used masks to terrorize innocent people in the 1920s, as pro-Palestinian and BLM activists do today. Of course, people should be allowed to demonstrate in favor of unpopular or even contemptible ideas without fear of reprisal. But they shouldn’t be allowed to engage in criminal behavior—or to mask themselves to get away with it. It shouldn’t be too much to ask that they have the courage to stand up, unmasked for what they believe in. And like everyone else, they must face responsibility for their actions.
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<div>Ellie Krasne-Cohen is a visiting fellow at Independent Women’s Forum and founder of Krasne Strategies. She is a member of the National Association of Scholars.</div>
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Wearing Masks At Protests Abdicates Responsibility. And That's The Point

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Comedian <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bill-maher" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Maher</a> slammed the beliefs of woke people while speaking to Joe Rogan during a recent interview, saying that the way they see the world is similar to the views of the Ku Klux Klan.
Maher made the remarks during an episode of &#8220;The Joe Experience&#8221; while discussing the differences between woke people and liberals.
&#8220;You’re like liberals back when they were more reasonable before they became leftists. And now every liberal kind of has to be a leftist,&#8221; Rogan said. &#8220;If you want to be on the team, you’ve got to subscribe to the most fringe ideas that the team is promoting.&#8221;
Maher responded, &#8220;I&#8217;m always trying to make the case that liberal is a different animal than woke, because it is, and you can be woke with all the nonsense that that now implies.&#8221;
&#8220;But don&#8217;t say that somehow it&#8217;s an extension of liberalism because it&#8217;s most often actually an undoing of liberalism,&#8221; Maher responded. &#8220;And so you can have your points of view and your positions on these things. But don&#8217;t try to piggyback on what I&#8217;ve always believed. I have always believed, as liberals do, for example, in a colorblind society, that the goal is to not see race at all, anywhere, for any reason. That&#8217;s what liberals always believed all the way through Obama, going back Kennedy, everybody, Martin Luther King.&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s not what the woke believe, they believe race is first and foremost, the thing you should always see everywhere, which I find interesting because that used to be the position of the Ku Klux Klan — that we see race first and foremost, everywhere,&#8221; he added. &#8220;So again, you can have that position. But don&#8217;t say that&#8217;s a liberal position. You&#8217;re doing something very different.&#8221;
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Bill Maher Slams Woke Views: ‘That Used To Be The Position Of The Ku Klux Klan’

Bill Maher Slams Woke Views: 'That Used To Be The Position Of The Ku Klux Klan'

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Pop culture and fashion magazine Vanity Fair raised eyebrows with a Tuesday headline comparing Twitter owner Elon Musk with former KKK Grand Wizard <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-kkk-grand-wizard-david-duke-omar-most-ryan-saavedra" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Duke</a> – all in an effort to undermine Florida Republican Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sunny-hostin-trashes-desantis-over-marine-vet-fundraiser-2-million-for-killing-a-young-black-man" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron DeSantis</a> ahead of his 2024 presidential bid.
&#8220;Report: Ron DeSantis Will Formally Announce His 2024 Bid With Elon Musk, Because Apparently David Duke Wasn’t Available,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/05/ron-desantis-elon-musk-2024-announcement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">inflammatory headline</a> splashed across the page in bold type read, followed by the subhead, &#8220;Launching with the Twitter owner is certainly a choice.&#8221;
The article, written by Bess Levin, continued in that same vein right from the beginning: &#8220;He is said to be planning to formally jump into the 2024 race during a conversation on Twitter with Elon Musk, because apparently other neo-Nazi sympathizers weren’t available.&#8221;
Levin went on to further attack Musk, alleging that his attempts to make Twitter a haven for &#8220;free speech&#8221; have given cover to a rise in white supremacy instead. Referencing ousted Fox News host Tucker Carlson&#8217;s plan to reinvent his own show on the platform – despite Musk&#8217;s statement that he had not made any deal with Carlson – she asserted that Musk was actively giving a home to &#8220;hate speech.&#8221;
She then pivoted to DeSantis, suggesting that Musk&#8217;s alleged alignment with the &#8220;far right&#8221; might be attractive to the Florida governor – and lest her audience misses the implied message throughout, she concluded with the outright statement: &#8220;Anyway, just as a reminder, a DeSantis presidency is as terrible a prospect as a Trump one.&#8221;
Musk&#8217;s friend David Sacks, who is set to moderate the discussion between the billionaire entrepreneur and imminent presidential candidate, shared a screenshot of the headline along with the comment, &#8220;The media has lost its mind.&#8221;
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Former National Security Council staffer Joshua Steinman noted that the left-leaning media coverage of DeSantis was no less dishonest when attacking DeSantis than it had been in attacking former President Donald Trump.
&#8220;This was what it was like for four years working for President Trump. No good deed went un-spun by the Washington Press Corps. No matter what we did. We could have brought peace to the Middle East* and they would have called us traitors**,&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/JoshuaSteinman/status/1661256732633608197" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, adding, &#8220;*We did this, **And they did this.&#8221;
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And while a number of others responded to the headline in the same way, others pointed out the fact that the more unhinged the left-leaning media became, the more average Americans would gravitate toward messages that reflected sanity.
&#8220;DeSantis and his team very, very much appreciate these headlines and would like as many more as you are capable of offering during the primary, MSM,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/EsotericCD/status/1661334246571532288" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one noted</a>.
&#8220;Elon Musk is a 70-30 or an 80-20 issue in America. He might be really unpopular among the handful of people who are just now signing up for Mastodon accounts, but for the rest of the country he’s still the guy who builds rockets and futuristic cars and has fun with Joe Rogan,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelbd/status/1661325168805806082" target="_blank" rel="noopener">another added</a>.

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Do you know what we haven&#8217;t had in a while? Race riots. 
Don&#8217;t worry, though, because <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/the-greatest-lie-ever-sold" target="_blank" rel="noopener">George Floyd, 2.0</a> is potentially coming to Memphis, Tennessee.
At least, that&#8217;s what it seems like after listening to Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn Davis break down the death of Tyre Nichols. 
Nichols was involved in a traffic stop on January 7. He died three days later on January 10. As a result, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/5-former-memphis-police-officers-charged-in-mans-death-city-braces-for-possible-riots">five Memphis police officers</a> have been fired and charged with second-degree murder. 
Video footage of the incident hasn&#8217;t been released yet, but authorities are letting people know it&#8217;s a real doozy. It will reportedly be published Friday night.
&#8220;I expect you to feel outraged in the disregard of basic human rights as our police officers have taken an oath to do the opposite of what transpired on the video,&#8221; she explained in the video below. &#8220;I expect our citizens to exercise their First Amendment right to protest, to demand action and results. But we need to ensure our community is safe in this process. None of this is a calling card for inciting violence or destruction in our community or against our citizens.&#8221;
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So that&#8217;s the setup. She&#8217;s saying she expects you to feel “outraged” — which could be taken as a message that it’s okay for you to do whatever you want in protest. She did add a minor note at the end about safety and how violence won&#8217;t be tolerated, but that part was really glossed over. 
Worse, she is essentially saying this video is worse than you could ever imagine, conjuring all sorts of images for listeners. 
Of course, the Memphis police chief could have attempted to assuage concerns by giving you facts about the case. 
She didn&#8217;t, so I will.
Per <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/tyre-nichols-video-police-chief-warns-memphis-violently-body-cam-footage-release">Fox News</a>, &#8220;Nichols was pulled over on Jan. 7 around 8:30 p.m. for &#8216;reckless driving’ near Raines Road and Ross Road in Memphis. A &#8216;confrontation occurred&#8217; during the stop, which resulted in police chasing Nichols on foot, police said. He was later apprehended.&#8221;
“While attempting to take the suspect into custody, another confrontation occurred; however, the suspect was ultimately apprehended,” Memphis Police Department said. “Afterward the suspect complained of having shortness of breath, at which point an ambulance was called to the scene.&#8221;
Then, he was taken to a nearby hospital where he passed away three days later.
Now, based on that alone, a reasonable response would be, &#8216;I don&#8217;t know what that footage is going to show, but I think that we can already discern that had he complied with the police officers, and did not start running, thus causing a foot chase, and causing two separate confrontations with police then — perhaps he would be alive.&#8217;
Instead, though, citizens of Memphis and America are left feeling they should be infuriated before even seeing the video.
It should be noted that nowhere in that video did Davis show support for the police. She didn&#8217;t mention how things allegedly escalated because of Nichols&#8217; own actions, according to the report. 
So, in effect, she has now created a potentially very dangerous situation in Memphis. As with George Floyd, it&#8217;s highly possible violence will break out across the country like we saw in 2020 thanks to the BLM rioters.
Worse — we haven&#8217;t even seen the video yet.
What Davis did was irresponsible. It seems she didn&#8217;t want people to have the facts, she wanted people to have heightened emotions.
Ready your engines, people, because it could get very ugly in Memphis starting Friday night.
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On Monday, &#8220;The View&#8221; hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar compared the Trump supporters who followed a Biden campaign bus in Texas to murderous Ku Klux Klan members of the past.
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Goldberg started her descent into vitriol by referring to ‘Truckloads of You-Know-Who’s supporters,” then segued to the Texas supporters surrounding the bus, preaching, “I’m here to let you know that that is one of the most dangerous things you can do because buses can’t stop on a dime.”
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“Thank God this person saw and slowed in order to let you do what you did which looked a lot like a scene out of “Mississippi Burning,” Goldberg continued.“You know, when trucks, or when trucks and cars surrounded people who are trying to drive. It was really freaky to see.”
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After playing a clip of Trump speaking about the incident, she went on, “With what I’ve been seeing, his supporters have given me a flashback, as I said — (At this point the screen showed a picture of the three young civil rights activists who were murdered in 1964) — and when they talk about, oh, we think there’s going to be some issues happening, who do they think is going to start this? I haven’t seen any Biden flags trapping anybody; I haven’t seen any of that. Am I crazy, you guys? When you saw this caravan, did it remind you of a 50’s thing as well?&#8221;
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Behar launched into her diatribe: &#8220;Yes. That was very reminiscent of what you were talking about, &#8216;Mississippi Burning.&#8217; You don’t see Biden people doing that. Biden people, the protesters, are tear-gassed, as a matter of fact. And these agitators are crazed, and then made up stories about, that they were protecting the bus.&#8221;
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<a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kristine-marsh/2020/11/02/whoopi-trump-supporters-looked-kkk-murderers-surrounding-biden">Newsbusters</a> noted, “This allegation about brandishing weapons came from Democrat activist&#8217;s tweets and hasn&#8217;t been verified as fact; even the liberal Snopes <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/armed-trump-fans-biden-bus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">admitted this</a>.
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<blockquote>I also started thinking about the Black Panthers and when they were in California at a state building, with their legal weapons, they were arrested and the laws were changed because of it. Yet, these people who are terrorizing others are called patriots by the President of the United States. And I say to people, do you want four more years of this? We&#8217;re on the eve of an election, do you want more four more years of bigotry, racism and hatred? Approved by the administration, by the President of the United States. Because that is what has been happening over the past four years and this is direct &#8212; this is in direct relation to the country having elected a black president. That&#8217;s what this is about. Pure and simple. It&#8217;s about racism, hatred and bigotry.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>After researching the crash via online videos, the San Marcos Police Department (SMPD) said “the ‘at-fault vehicle’ may be the Biden-Harris staffer’s car, while the ‘victim’ appears to be one of the Trump vehicles,” <a href="https://www.wfla.com/news/fbi-investigating-incident-where-trump-train-surrounded-biden-bus/">reported</a> KXAN News.</blockquote>
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Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar Liken Trump Supporters Who Surrounded Biden Bus To Murderous KKK Members

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Rioters in California destroyed a statue of Ulysses S. Grant (not the one featured in the image above) on Friday night as far-left activists continue to destroy statues across the U.S.
Grant, a Republican who served as America&#8217;s 18th president, played a key role in helping then-President Abraham Lincoln win the Civil War.
History <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/ulysses-s-grant-1">reports</a>:
<blockquote>Ulysses Grant (1822-1885) commanded the victorious Union army during the American Civil War (1861-1865) and served as the 18th U.S. president from 1869 to 1877. An Ohio native, Grant graduated from West Point and fought in the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). During the Civil War, Grant, an aggressive and determined leader, was given command of all the U.S. armies. After the war he became a national hero, and the Republicans nominated him for president in 1868. A primary focus of Grant’s administration was Reconstruction, and he worked to reconcile the North and South while also attempting to protect the civil rights of newly freed black slaves.</blockquote>
Politico reporter Marc Caputo tweeted out a video of the incident, writing: &#8220;Lost Cause meet Crazy Cause: using Juneteenth to tear down of [sic] the San Fran. statue of Ulysses S. Grant —who won the Civil War that led to emancipation, long before had freed the 1 slave he had been given &amp; who was later eulogized by Frederick Douglass.&#8221;
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Lost Cause meet Crazy Cause: using Juneteenth to tear down of the San Fran. statue of Ulysses S. Grant —who won the Civil War that led to emancipation, long before had freed the 1 slave he had been given &amp; who was later eulogized by Frederick Douglass<a href="https://t.co/SjArCUYlQR">pic.twitter.com/SjArCUYlQR</a>
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Grant also aggressively went after the Ku Klux Klan, whose <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1263608867134615553">founder</a> Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest was a <a href="https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2008661705/">Democrat</a>.
History <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ku-klux-act-passed-by-congress">reported</a> that the KKK terrorized blacks and Republicans in the South during the era of Reconstruction:
<blockquote>Most prominent in counties where the races were relatively balanced, the KKK engaged in terrorist raids against African Americans and white Republicans at night, employing intimidation, destruction of property, assault, and murder to achieve its aims and influence upcoming elections. In a few Southern states, Republicans organized militia units to break up the Klan. In 1871, passage of the Ku Klux Act led to nine South Carolina counties being placed under martial law and thousands of arrests. In 1882, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the Ku Klux Act unconstitutional, but by that time Reconstruction had ended, and much of the KKK had faded away.</blockquote>
Congress responded to the violence by passing a series of bills that allowed Grant to use military force to protect the rights of blacks.
&#8220;The Third Force Act, also known as the KKK or the Civil Rights Act of 1871, empowered President Ulysses S. Grant to use the armed forces to combat those who conspired to deny equal protection of the laws and, if necessary, to suspend habeas corpus to enforce the act,&#8221; Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/20/this-day-in-politics-april-20-1279376">reported</a>. &#8220;Grant signed the legislation on this day in 1871. After the act’s passage, the president for the first time had the power to suppress state disorders on his own initiative and suspend the right of habeas corpus. Grant did not hesitate to use this authority.&#8221;
Politico added, &#8220;Shortly after Congress approved the law, nine counties in South Carolina, where KKK terrorism was rampant, were placed under martial law and thousands of persons were arrested.&#8221;
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Dem radicals are trying to destroy American history.
They&#39;re illegally tearing down monuments to Catholic Saints, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ulysses S. Grant &amp; more.
Why aren’t the police arresting these criminals? And why isn&#39;t <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JoeBiden</a> condemning this crimewave? <a href="https://t.co/V31Qy1NGnU">https://t.co/V31Qy1NGnU</a>
&mdash; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1274325968946110465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Rioters In California Tear Down Statue Of Ulysses S. Grant. He Defeated The Confederacy, Devastated KKK.

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An incident involving a man who wore a KKK hood to a San Diego-area Vons grocery store that drew national attention will result in no charges, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department announced this week, citing a Supreme Court ruling as grounds for taking no additional action.
The incident took place at a Vons on Mission Gorge Road in Santee, a San Diego-area suburb, on May 2 — a day after San Diego County mandated face coverings in public. Customers noticed a middle-aged, camouflage shirt-wearing shopper pushing a cart around, his head covered in a KKK hood.
Vons corporate spokesperson Melissa Hill says that the man was repeatedly asked by employees to remove the hood. When he finally arrived at the check-out line, a supervisor again insisted that he remove it, at which point the man finally conceded and took off the inflammatory garment. He then purchased his items and left the store without incident.
&#8220;At Vons, fostering an environment of courtesy, dignity and respect is one of our highest priorities, and we work hard to hold everyone in our stores to these standards, including customers,&#8221; said Hill.
Photos of the incident were soon circulating online:
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Having drawn national attention, and <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/man-who-wore-kkk-hood-to-san-diego-area-grocery-store-wont-be-charged/ar-BB13Z4n6">rebuke</a> from the Anti-Defamation League in San Diego as well as local officials, authorities looked closely into the matter, reviewing surveillance footage, interviewing witnesses, and conferring with the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office, but ultimately determined that no charges would be brought.
In a <a href="https://www.sdsheriff.net">statement</a> issued Monday, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department announced that there was not enough evidence to bring any charges against the man.
&#8220;The man expressed frustration with the coronavirus and having people tell him what he can and cannot do,&#8221; the statement reads (full statement below). &#8220;He said that wearing the hood was not intended to be a racial statement. In summary he said, &#8216;It was a mask and it was stupid.'&#8221;
&#8220;After the interrogation, detectives conferred with both the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office and the San Diego County District Attorney&#8217;s Office,&#8221; the department explains. &#8220;Witnesses to the incident were interviewed and video evidence was scrutinized. An analysis of all relevant criminal statutes was undertaken. As a result, it was determined there was insufficient evidence to charge the man who wore the Ku Klux Klan hood inside the store.&#8221;
The department then cites the U.S. Supreme Court precedent on &#8220;hate speech,&#8221; asserting, &#8220;[s]peech that demeans on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, disability, or any other similar ground is hateful; but the proudest boast of our free speech jurisprudence is that we protect the freedom to express the thought that we hate.'&#8221;
&#8220;That said, this incident should serve as a reminder for anyone contemplating wearing or displaying items so closely associated with hate and human suffering that our society does not hold in high regard those who do so,&#8221; the announcement concludes. &#8220;Santee is a city of families and the community is rightfully disgusted at this man&#8217;s despicable behavior. The Sheriff&#8217;s Department thoroughly investigates incidents such as these and will hold those who violate the law accountable.&#8221;
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<blockquote>On Saturday, May 2nd, a man entered the Vons in Santee wearing a white pointed hood. Investigators with the San Diego County Sheriff&#8217;s Department were contacted and have interrogated the man who wore the hood. The man expressed frustration with the coronavirus and having people tell him what he can and cannot do. He said that wearing the hood was not intended to be a racial statement. In summary he said, &#8220;It was a mask and it was stupid.&#8221;
After the interrogation, detectives conferred with both the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office and the San Diego County District Attorney&#8217;s Office. Witnesses to the incident were interviewed and video evidence was scrutinized. An analysis of all relevant criminal statutes was undertaken. As a result, it was determined there was insufficient evidence to charge the man who wore the Ku Klux Klan hood inside the store.
The U.S. Supreme Court has said that &#8220;[s]peech that demeans on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, disability, or any other similar ground is hateful; but the proudest boast of our free speech jurisprudence is that we protect the freedom to express the thought that we hate.'&#8221;
That said, this incident should serve as a reminder for anyone contemplating wearing or displaying items so closely associated with hate and human suffering that our society does not hold in high regard those who do so. Santee is a city of families and the community is rightfully disgusted at this man&#8217;s despicable behavior. The Sheriff&#8217;s Department thoroughly investigates incidents such as these and will hold those who violate the law accountable.</blockquote>
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Man Who Wore KKK Hood To California Grocery Store Will Not Be Charged; Sheriff’s Dept Cites Supreme Court Ruling

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Harkening back to his &#8220;they want to put y&#8217;all back in chains&#8221; <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-tells-african-american-audience-gop-ticket-would-put-them-back-in-chains/">moment</a> from the 2012 presidential election, former Vice President Joe Biden lumped President Trump in with the KKK while speaking over the weekend before a predominantly black church in South Carolina.
“What I realized is that hate just hides. And it when it comes out from under the rocks, when it gets a little bit of oxygen. This president and his — the Ku Klux Klan and the rest of them, they think they’ve beaten us again but they have no idea. We’re just coming back,&#8221; Biden said before the congregation at Bethlehem Baptist Church.
Biden made his comments while reflecting upon the president&#8217;s statement following the August 2017 Charlottesville protest, in which he famously said that there were &#8220;very fine people on both sides.&#8221; Prior to seemingly comparing the president to the KKK, Biden reflected upon the advancements of the civil rights movement and expressed fear that President Trump has taken America back one hundred years.
“Folks, some mornings I wake up and I think it’s more like what it must have been in 1920 than 2020,” Biden said, as reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-speaks-against-racism-lumps-trump-in-with-kkk-during-speech-before-black-congregation">Fox News</a>. “I thought you could defeat hate … hate only hides.”
Recalling Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.&#8217;s famous &#8220;I have a dream&#8221; speech, Biden urged everyone to keep fighting.
“Dr. King didn’t give up on the dream,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And I’m asking you all, don’t give up on it. Don’t give up now. We can defeat this moment of hate.”
Former Vice President Joe Biden has a history of deploying racial division to maximum political effect in front of black audiences, such as when he said that Republicans &#8220;want to put y&#8217;all back in chains&#8221; during the height of the 2012 presidential campaign.
“Romney wants to let the — he said in the first hundred days, he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules, unchain Wall Street,” <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-tells-african-american-audience-gop-ticket-would-put-them-back-in-chains/">Biden said</a>. “They’re going to put you all back in chains.”
Biden has been playing the &#8220;Trump supports white supremacists&#8221; card <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/25/politics/joe-biden-2020-president/index.html">since the release of his first 2020 presidential campaign video</a>, framing the race as a &#8220;battle for the soul of this nation.&#8221;
&#8220;He said there were quote some very fine people on both sides,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;With those words, the president of the United States assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it. And in that moment, I knew the threat to this nation was unlike any I had ever seen in my lifetime.&#8221;
&#8220;The core values of this nation, our standing in the world, our very democracy, everything that has made America, America, is at stake,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;That&#8217;s why today I&#8217;m announcing my candidacy for president of the United States.&#8221;
Despite positioning himself as the great moral crusader, Biden took a hit in credibility last year <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/now-joe-biden-regrets-segregationist-remarks-paul-bois">when he praised</a> two former segregationists with whom he worked during his early years in the Senate for being &#8220;civil.&#8221; Though Biden apologized for the remarks, his continual gaffes since then have only further tarnished his image, such as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-poor-kids-just-bright-and-talented-white-paul-bois">when he said</a>: &#8220;Poor kids are just as bright and talented as white kids.&#8221;

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Biden Talks Of Trump And ‘The Ku Klux Klan’ At Southern Black Church

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In a soon-to-be-aired documentary centered around U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his circus-like confirmation process, the conservative justice reportedly rips into the the &#8220;modern-day liberal&#8221; and suggests that the Left has been more of an impediment to him over his career than even the Ku Klux Klan.
&#8220;I felt as though, in my life, I had been looking at the wrong people as the people who would be problematic toward me,&#8221; Thomas reportedly says in the documentary, according to <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/justice-clarence-thomas-rebukes-biden-led-confirmation-hearings/story?id=67235780" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ABC News.</a> &#8220;We were told that, &#8216;Oh, it&#8217;s gonna be the bigot in the pickup truck; it&#8217;s gonna be the Klansmen; it&#8217;s gonna be the rural sheriff.'&#8221;
&#8220;But it turned out that through all of that, ultimately the biggest impediment was the modern-day liberal,&#8221; the justice continued. &#8220;They were the ones who would discount all those things because they have one issue or because they have the power to caricature you.&#8221;
The documentary, titled, &#8220;Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words,&#8221; is set to air on PBS in 2020, according to <a href="https://www.manifoldproductions.com/aboutus.html">Manifold Productions</a>, an independent film and television production company.
&#8220;Although Clarence Thomas remains a controversial figure, loved by some, reviled by others, few know much more than a few headlines and the recollections of his contentious confirmation battle with Anita Hill,&#8221; the production company describes the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCmfX4hQwZw">documentary</a>. &#8220;With unprecedented access, the producers interviewed Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, Virginia, for over 30 hours of interview time, over many months. Justice Thomas tells his entire life’s story, looking directly at the camera, speaking frankly to the audience.&#8221;
&#8220;Unscripted and without narration, the documentary takes the viewer through this complex and often painful life, dealing with race, faith, power, jurisprudence, and personal resilience,&#8221; Manifold Productions adds.
The trailer for the documentary was first released at the end of October, though it&#8217;s received new life since ABC News&#8217; scoop on Justice Thomas&#8217; harsh words about the &#8220;modern-day liberal.&#8221;
In the trailer, Thomas claims he was targeted by the Left because he dared to think in a way a black man was not expected or allowed to.
&#8220;I mean, come on, we know what this is all about,&#8221; he says at the end of the trailer. &#8220;This is the wrong black guy; he has to be destroyed.&#8221;
Thomas, who was nominated for the Supreme Court in 1991 by then-President George H. W. Bush, underwent a rocky confirmation process after he was accused of dubious acts of sexual misconduct by Anita Hill.
“Senator, I would like to start by saying unequivocally, uncategorically, that I deny each and every single allegation against me today that suggested in any way that I had conversations of a sexual nature or about pornographic material with Anita Hill, that I ever attempted to date her, that I ever had any personal sexual interest in her, or that I in any way ever harassed her,” Thomas said before the Senate Judiciary Committee on October 11, 1991, according to <a href="https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/clarencethomashightechlynching.htm">American Rhetoric</a>.
Thomas went on call the hearings a &#8220;circus,&#8221; a &#8220;national disgrace,&#8221; and most memorably, &#8220;a high-tech lynching.&#8221;
“This is not a closed room,” he said. “There was an FBI investigation. This is not an opportunity to talk about difficult matters privately or in a closed environment. This is a circus. It’s a national disgrace.”
“And from my standpoint as a black American, as far as I’m concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas, and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you,” Thomas declared. “You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the U.S. — U.S. Senate, rather than hung from a tree.”
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WATCH: Trailer For New Clarence Thomas Documentary Drops; Justice Says Liberals Worse Than The Klan

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In an interview with CNN&#8217;s Anderson Cooper that aired Monday after Trump gave a speech calling for unity and condemning white supremacy and all forms of racial hatred, Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden compared Trump&#8217;s rhetoric to that of the Ku Klux Klan and accused him of having &#8220;flat abandoned the theory that we are one people.&#8221;
In a televised speech from the White House Monday, President Trump addressed the horrific mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, which took the lives of at least 29 people and injured dozens more, by condemning all forms of &#8220;racist hate,&#8221; particularly white supremacy, which appears to have motivated the El Paso shooter.
&#8220;The shooter in El Paso posted a manifesto online, consumed by racist hate,&#8221; said the president. &#8220;In one voice our nation must condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy. These sinister ideologies must be defeated. Hate has no place in America. Hatred warps the mind, ravages the heart and devours the soul.&#8221;
The president also called for greater unity and bipartisanship to address the growing problem of mass shootings. &#8220;We cannot allow ourselves to feel powerless. We can and will stop this evil contagion,&#8221; he said. &#8220;In that task, we must honor the sacred memory of those we have lost, by acting as one people. Open wounds cannot heal if we are divided. We must seek real bipartisan solutions – we have to do that, in a bipartisan manner – that will truly make America safer and better for all.&#8221;
In an interview after Trump&#8217;s call for a greater sense of unity in the country, Biden blasted the president as a divider who uses &#8220;dog whistles&#8221; to stir up racism and fear – just like &#8220;the Ku Klux Klan&#8221; and Andrew Jackson.
Cooper set up Biden&#8217;s brutal critique of Trump by asking about what is &#8220;behind the rhetoric&#8221; of the president, which the host framed as &#8220;an effort basically to stoke white supremacists or nationalists to at least give them a dog whistle.&#8221;
&#8220;They do have a dog whistle. They do have a dog whistle,&#8221; said Biden (partial transcript via <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/08/05/biden_trump_has_said_things_no_other_president_has_said_since_andrew_jackson.html">RCP</a>). &#8220;Look, this is a president who has said things no other president has said since Andrew Jackson. Nobody said anything like the things he&#8217;s saying. And the idea that this doesn&#8217;t contribute to or legitimate or make it more rational for people to think that we, in fact, can now speak out, we can speak out and be more straightforward and make this an issue.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;ve been through this before,&#8221; Biden continued. &#8220;We went through this before in the &#8217;20s with the Ku Klux Klan and 50,000 people walking down Pennsylvania Avenue in their hats and robes because they decided they didn&#8217;t want Catholics coming into the country. We went through it after the Civil War in terms of the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacy. This is about separating people and the good and bad in his mind. &#8230; It is about access to power. It is a trait used by charlatans all over the world, divide people, divide them and pit them against one another.&#8221;
Cooper then offered Biden some phrasing to give his critique even more edge. &#8220;If that is the case, I mean it is a very dangerous game then that he is playing,&#8221; said Cooper.
&#8220;There is no question it&#8217;s a dangerous game,&#8221; said Biden. &#8220;There is no question that his rhetoric has contributed to at a minimum, at a minimum of dumbing down the way in which we as a society talk about one another. Look, we&#8217;ve always brought the country together. &#8230; &#8216;We the people. We hold these truths to be self-evident&#8217;. He flies in the face of all of the basic things that we&#8217;ve never really met the standard, we&#8217;ve never abandoned it before. He looks like he&#8217;s just flat abandoned the theory that we are one people.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50277/democrats-blast-nyt-after-outrageous-trump-speech-james-barrett">Democrats Blast NYT After ‘Outrageous’ Trump Speech Headline; Times Makes Changes</a>

After Trump Condemns White Supremacy, Biden Compares Him To KKK

White Supremacy

In the aftermath of several recent mass shootings, many Democrats have repeatedly labeled President Donald Trump as a “white nationalist” or a “white supremacist.” Beto O’Rourke <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/456158-orourke-compares-trump-administration-to-nazi-germany">likened his rhetoric to that of the Third Reich</a>, and this viewpoint is shared across much of the Democratic Party.
While the terms “white nationalist” and “white supremacist” are applied increasingly liberally, it seems important to remind ourselves of the definitions of these ideologies before making such accusations.
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<li>White nationalism is based upon the belief of a “white race” and the development of a white national identity.</li>
<li>White supremacy is the belief that white people are superior to other races.</li>
<li>Both ideologies have racism running at their very core — usually including unabashed hatred of Jews and racial minorities.</li>
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After some of Trump’s rhetoric was defined as racist or xenophobic by critics, his detractors on the Left saw one short goose-step between subjective criticism and invalid accusations of white supremacy or white nationalism. However, the fact that Trump is white and has been labeled as a racist is obviously insufficient evidence of “white nationalistic” ideology.
Those who blindly criticize Donald Trump as a white supremacist are doing so from a position of ignorance or cynicism. In both cases, they should be forced to provide justification beyond merely claiming that “Trump is racist.” After all, as children, we are taught basic logical principles. One example is that “all apples are fruits, but not all fruits are apples.” Even if Trump were racist (and there is no evidence that he is), we must still remember that “all white supremacists are racist, but not all racists are white supremacists.”
One clear counter-argument to the lazy accusations leveled against Trump is the fact that targeted hatred and subjugation of Jews and black people is a core underlying principle of white supremacist ideology. With this in mind, it seems that Trump would be appallingly bad at being a white supremacist. Trump’s daughter converted to Judaism, he has a town named after him in the Jewish state of Israel, and black unemployment is at its <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS14000006">lowest rate on record</a>. In addition, the claim that Trump reserves certain acerbic language — such as “infestation” — for racial minorities is a lie. For example, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50012/selective-outrage-media-trump-also-called-new-ashe-schow">Trump called New Hampshire</a> a “drug-infested den.” New Hampshire is 93.9% white.
Instead of accepting these realities, the common response is to pivot to the claim that Trump is a white supremacist because he is supported by some fringe white supremacists. This is based upon yet another logical fallacy called “guilt by association,” whereby guilt is assigned based on some irrelevant association or shared attribute. For example: “You have black hair. Hitler had black hair. Therefore, you are Hitler.”
While criticisms of Trump’s presidential campaign can arguably be made regarding instances of pandering to the alt-right, neither Trump’s rhetoric nor his actions in office provide any substantive proof to suggest that he is a white supremacist. The fact that some white supremacists support Trump is evidence — at the very most — that they share some perceived or actual common viewpoints. However, this is only relevant if the shared policies are elements of the white supremacist ideology — and there is no evidence of this.
In addition, it is glaringly obvious that support alone does not indicate a completely shared ideology. After Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) anti-Semitic tweets implying that Israel had “hypnotized the world,” David Duke, a former “Grand Wizard” of the Klu Klux Klan, <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/mar/7/david-duke-praises-rep-ilhan-omar/">came out in support of Omar</a>.
Following the Left’s logic, Ilhan Omar is a white supremacist and supports the Klu Klux Klan. While much of Ilhan Omar’s ideology is utterly detestable, this is clearly an absurd assertion. Indeed, if the vocal support of one white supremacist were all that were needed to condemn a politician, all members of the Klu Klux Klan would come out in support of every one of their political enemies — leaving the electorate no choice but to vote the KKK into power.
Critics of Trump are more than welcome to voice their displeasure regarding Trump’s policies or character. However, if they are going to level such appalling allegations of “white supremacy” or “white nationalism,” they should be forced to provide evidence beyond “he’s white and I think he’s racist.” Refusing to do so shows a dismissive attitude towards the specificity of words, and a complete lack of acknowledgment for how despicable the ideologies of white nationalism and white supremacy truly are.

HAWORTH: Trump Is Not A White Supremacist

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In his latest &#8220;Ami on the Loose,&#8221; documentary filmmaker Ami Horowitz gives a series of interviews on the campus of Columbia University about the new trend of colleges promoting racial segregation by offering separate housing, events, and &#8220;safe spaces&#8221; based on the color of one&#8217;s skin. The students&#8217; affirmative responses were far different from those Horowitz got from African Americans just a few blocks &#8220;outside the campus bubble,&#8221; all of whom blasted the backward notion of &#8220;resegregation.&#8221; The opposite was true of a KKK leader, who cheered the idea of colleges increasingly promoting separation by race.
&#8220;Colleges are creating separate housing, graduations, and even gyms for black students and other minorities,&#8221; Horowitz explains. &#8220;So I went to Columbia University to find out what students think about this.&#8221;
The students, who are mostly white females, all seem enthusiastic about the idea of encouraging the separation of students by race.
&#8220;Would you support segregated housing for black people?&#8221; Horowitz asks two female students.
&#8220;I think a lot of schools have interest housing, where black students, students of color can live together,&#8221; one replies.
&#8220;Separate from white people?&#8221; Horowitz asks for clarification.
&#8220;Yeah, that&#8217;s like a normal thing at most campuses, I think,&#8221; she replies.
&#8220;Yeah, I would support it,&#8221; another female tells Horowitz in response to the same question.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t see a problem with that,&#8221; says another female student, who appears to be Asian, adding, &#8220;I want to be with people like me.&#8221;
&#8220;I would be supportive of it,&#8221; another student asserts. &#8220;Why not?&#8221; asks another, while yet another student argues, &#8220;It wouldn&#8217;t change anything for me because, as you can see, I&#8217;m a white person.&#8221;
When Horowitz asks students if they would &#8220;support African American students having their own separate graduation,&#8221; he gets similarly affirmative responses.
&#8220;Sure, if that&#8217;s what they wanted,&#8221; says a white female student. &#8220;Yeah, I definitely would,&#8221; says another. &#8220;Absolutely they should have it,&#8221; says another.
Asked specifically about &#8220;black safe spaces,&#8221; a student says, &#8220;Yeah, I&#8217;m for that.&#8221;
But when Horowitz walks &#8220;outside the campus bubble&#8221; to a neighborhood a few blocks away, the responses change dramatically. In fact, Horowitz notes that he found &#8220;unanimous&#8221; agreement off campus that segregating people by race is retrograde.
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&#8220;Why? Are you going back in time?&#8221; says an African American woman. &#8220;Why are you separating? We&#8217;re all together.&#8221; Asked if she thinks it&#8217;s racist to do that, she says emphatically, &#8220;I would think.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t understand the logic there,&#8221; says an African American man. &#8220;It&#8217;s obviously terrible to separate people by race,&#8221; he says, exclaiming later, &#8220;Separating people by race at the gym? I don&#8217;t even understand that &#8230; So white people don&#8217;t get their feelings hurt when they get dunked on?&#8221;
&#8220;I feel like that&#8217;s basically segregation,&#8221; says a young black man. &#8220;We should all graduate together.&#8221;
&#8220;I feel like that&#8217;s segregation and that shouldn&#8217;t be happening,&#8221; says another African American male. &#8220;Discrimination might not be the ultimate goal, but people take it that way&#8230; It&#8217;s all about social skills, and if you can&#8217;t converse with people that are not the same skin color as you, then there&#8217;s no reason for you to be social at all.&#8221;
Horowitz goes on to provide some historical context to the segregation discussion, explaining the impact of the landmark Supreme Court decision Brown vs. Board of Education that overturned the policy of &#8220;separate but equal,&#8221; the insidious rationale behind segregating people by race.
But increasingly on college campuses, Horowitz demonstrates that you can find many people who are actually embracing a form of &#8220;separate but equal&#8221; in these &#8220;woke,&#8221; racially divisive policies.
To drive home just how backward this thinking is, Horowitz interviews a member of the racist KKK who celebrates colleges promoting segregating by race.
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