MSNBC's Idiot Race-Baiter Toure Turns Out To Have Started an Idiot Race-Baiting Newspaper in College

Fairly radical stuff. I suppose a lot of black college students adopt a militant, radical posture, but then, I'm not sure if I want that sort of person lecturing me about politics.

I wonder if kids have to get permission signed from their parents if Toure speaks at their school.

Here are a few tidbits.

MSNBC host Tour� founded a student newspaper dedicated to black liberation theology while he was a college student attending Emory University from 1989 to 1992.

Tour�s flagship publication, The Fire This Time, lavished praise on famous anti-Semites, black supremacists, and conspiracy theorists whom Tour� helped bring to campus. Before he became an intense-but-sardonic TV personality, Tour� also decried �the suffocating white community� and defended a nationally famous fake hate crime.

Toure continues pushing conspiracy theories; he's a 9/11 Truther.

Here's that hate-crime part:

Tour� devoted his most intense passion for a fake episode, �the most celebrated of all the race-charged events Emory has seen.� Sabrina Collins, a black freshman at Emory, reported in March 1992 that a dormitory had been vandalized and racist words written on her walls. The news made national attention. Tour� and others protested for television cameras. Collins said the event had traumatized her.

Six months later Collins admitted the entire dorm vandalism story was a hoax.

But Tour� continued to defend Collins� allegations after she retracted them. �In the aftermath,� Tour� wrote in The Fire This Time, �THE POSSIBILITY THAT COLLINS HERSELF PERPETRATED THE CRIME HAS SEEMED TO MINIMIZE THE INCIDENT�S IMPORTANCE. IN ANALYZING THE EVENT�S IMPORTANCE TO EMORY, IT IS NOT AT ALL IMPORTANT IF COLLINS DID IT.� (Emphasis added by Tour�.)

ALL CAPS ARE A SIGN OF MENTAL WELLNESS.

Radicals and idiots said that after the Tawana Brawley and Duke Lacrosse hoaxes, too -- that it doesn't matter if it really happened or not, it still illustrates something profound and we should still treat it as real.

Tour� went on to insist the incident be used to leverage a list of demands against the university, �including instituting an African American studies class as a distribution requirement.� Tour� continued to blame Emory for not doing enough to raise the �consciousness� of white students. �White students largely scoffed at the demands [from Tour�s group], even with TV cameras in their faces and the university added none of the demands to Emory life.�

The article concludes by suggesting the possibility that Toure might feel as if he has something to prove -- growing up, as he did, in a privileged mostly-white environment and attending a tony boarding school.

posted by Ace at 03:36 PM

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