'Black Lives' leader defends looting in Yale lecture

[RV ME]

Pretty sad when the Boston Tea Party tax protest is taught to be on par with looting.  I do not recall Bostonians robbing and burning stores while dumping tea overboard, but since I went to public schools maybe it happened and I just wasn’t taught about it.

 

So now at Yale this

 

 

Is considered to be the same as this

 

 

Pretty sad.  RV ME

 

 

 

By Perry Chiaramonte Published October 08, 2015 FoxNews.com

 

The “Black Lives Matter” leader who landed a teaching gig at Yale University delivered a lecture this week on the historical merits of looting as a form of protest, backing up his lesson with required reading that puts modern-day marauders on par with the patriots behind the Boston Tea Party.

 

DeRay McKesson, who was hired by the Ivy League institution’s divinity school to lecture for two days on "Transformational Leadership in the #BlackLivesMatter Movement," had students read an essay written at the height of the rioting and looting that plagued the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson just over a year ago after a white police officer shot and killed a black man.

 

“The mystifying ideological claim that looting is violent and non-political is one that has been carefully produced by the ruling class because it is precisely the violent maintenance of property which is both the basis and end of their power,” reads the August, 2014 post from the literary magazine “The New Inquiry” entitled “In Defense of Looting.” “On a less abstract level there is a practical and tactical benefit to looting. Whenever people worry about looting, there is an implicit sense that the looter must necessarily be acting selfishly, ‘opportunistically,’ and in excess.”

 

McKesson appears to have veered off of his syllabus for the lesson, which prompted some critics to offer a reminder that looting does indeed have innocent victims.

 

“There is zero justification for stealing private property and destroying a family’s livelihood – which is what occurred countless times in Ferguson, Baltimore, and elsewhere – but that’s apparently what passes as an example of ‘transformational leadership’ at the Yale Divinity School,” said Kyle Olson, founder of EAGnews.org, a blog that focuses on education reform.

 

"The article in question was not on the syllabus," a Yale Divinity School official confirmed. "But the instructor did send out some supplemental readings later in the process, including that particular article. We believe it's important for students to examine a wide range of viewpoints and ideas."

 

McKesson was asked to teach a one-credit course this fall as a guest lecturer. In accepting the offer, McKesson joined Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., and the Rev. Nancy Taylor, whose Old South Church in Boston is located near the site of the 2013 marathon bombing, to teach a special three-section course as part of a new leadership program. The special course was administered through the YDS’ Transformational Leadership for Church and Society program. Each of the one-credit courses is being taught by a different guest lecturer and the program is funded through a $120,000 grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations.

 

McKesson last worked in the Minneapolis public school system as a human resources administrator. According to his LinkedIn profile, his only teaching experience was between May 2007 and June 2009, when he was a middle school math teacher.

 

McKesson defended the lesson when asked about it by FoxNews.com.

 

“The relationship and tension between protest and property destruction is something that America has grappled with since the Revolutionary War & the Boston Tea Party,” he said via Twitter to FoxNews.com. “The reading ... allowed us to explore all sides of the American historical relationships and tensions present in protest.”

 

The Yale Divinity School official told FoxNews.com he could not comment on the seminar but did provide a copy of the syllabus for McKesson’s section of the two-day intensive course.

 

Readings for the course included Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book “Between the World and Me,” a Huffington Post article titled “How The Black Lives Matter Movement Changed the Church,” the book “Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfilled Hopes for Racial Reform,” by author Derrick Bell,” Leah Gunning Francis’ book “Ferguson & Faith: Sparking Leadership and Awakening Community,” and a New York Times article titled “Our Demand Is Simple: Stop Killing Us.”

 

The school does not endorse all the positions of the many speakers who come here each year,” the school official said of the course material.

 

He also pointed out that school officials in attendance relayed to him that there was no one in the room who spoke out in favor of looting when the article was being discussed.

 

McKesson’s credentials and the new coursework make it unlikely students at the vaunted New Haven, Conn., school are getting their money’s worth, said Olson.

 

“It’s surprising to me students would pay tuition – and likely incur much of that in debt – and be fed a line that crime pays, other people are to blame for one’s own problems, and that the system is rigged in favor of white people,” Olson said.

 

“None of this propaganda will fix one broken family, heal one fatherless family or help one more child learn how to read and become a productive citizen,” he added.

 

 

[dog53]

Hey Looting is obviously legal in this country. 

 

Well for certain people anyway.

 

 

Oh did that sound like a racist statement ?

 

A thousand  pardons Please forgive me.

 

 

NOT !!!!!!!!

[The Machine]

Hey Looting is obviously legal in this country. 

 

Well for certain people anyway.

 

 

Oh did that sound like a racist statement ?

 

A thousand  pardons Please forgive me.

 

 

NOT !!!!!!!!

 

 

[SgtFuryUSCZ]

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Wow...  ... there it is... generations of entitlement all 'comin' home to roost'. 

 

Mentality too far gone to even realise it's WRONG in so many ways....

 

Disgusting.

[10 YEARS LATER]

I believe LOOTING comes under the heading of ENTITLEMENTS that Liberals are always espousing . . . Right up there with ALL the FREE STUFF they promise prior to and during election cycles.

[moose 57]

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Wow...  ... there it is... generations of entitlement all 'comin' home to roost'. 

 

Mentality too far gone to even realise it's WRONG in so many ways....

 

Disgusting.

 

I believe they All know it's WRONG and don't give a (you know what)!  "sh-it" !!!

 

 In our day, the belt would be coming off- Oh wait- they have no frikn belt.

 

wouldn't ya just like to...    i'm done-sorry

Edited October 9, 2015 by moose 57

[Whatshername]

[Xtaxguy]

More than one of the histories I've read that dealt with the Boston Tea Party noted that the "Indians" carefully picked the locks on the trunks holding the tea, dumped the tea into the harbor (to protest the tax on it) and carefully relocked and replaced the trunks in the hold.  Great care to avoid any damage to any property (other than the tea), and no injuries.

 

YALE tuition on the other hand is obviously much more analogous to looting: they take too much in exchange for shoddy goods in exchange (see ignorance of "Black Lives Matter" racist, above), leaving all concerned worse off (i.e., deeply in student loan debt), and they pretend that what they are doing is a "good thing," just like their shiftless lecturer.  Only thing worse is Harvard - prime bastion of left wing intellectual sophism and fraud.

[SgtFuryUSCZ]

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Good one, WHN !  

('OlSarge'sGals love Bass Pro Shops !)   

[renomac]

black looters  ? ?

[Texstorm]

I don't care who you are if you want to matter, do the right things that do matter. There is no room in this world for a selfish SOB ! If you can't put what's important in front of you, then you don't deserve bad company. The greatest gift in life is giving, not taking ! You should be finding pleasure in their pleasure or you don't no have a clue what love, and life is about! We only got one chance in this world, if it takes you a lifetime, make it right !

[RV ME]

More than one of the histories I've read that dealt with the Boston Tea Party noted that the "Indians" carefully picked the locks on the trunks holding the tea, dumped the tea into the harbor (to protest the tax on it) and carefully relocked and replaced the trunks in the hold.  Great care to avoid any damage to any property (other than the tea), and no injuries.

 

Thanks Ex, that is what I had read too.  Except as I remember it the “indians” then went to the local pubs and celebrated their victory (and presumably paid their tabs).

 

Unfortunately looting is by no means limited to inner city riots.

 

 

Looted Homes after California Wildfires – Arrests Made

At least a dozen homeowners who were forced to evacuate during a destructive California wildfire returned home to discover that their homes had been looted while they were away.

Six people were arrested on suspicion of burglary or planning to loot homes in Lake County following the wildfire that started on September 12, killing four people and destroying 1,300 homes. Fourteen homeowners reported looted homes in Lake County and there may be more.

One thief went so far as to spray-paint a car in the house he was burglarizing so it would look like a police vehicle, making it easier to escape.

Several San Francisco Bay Area police departments patrolled the evacuated neighborhoods, but were not able to prevent all the burglaries. The fire covered 118 square miles. Many of the homes were located on small feeder roads that are not on maps, but are familiar to local residents.

Read more at http://thedailyvoicenews.com/2015/10/03/looted-homes-after-california-wildfires-arrests-made/#A6cimLAixOzTZCiE.99

 

 

Comparing protesting taxation without representation to stealing and destroying property is like comparing apples to rocks.  In my view looters have one thing in common, be they inner city rioters or out in the sticks thieves……….

[Whatshername]

[RV ME]

Biggest looter of them all!