Seriously, what the f…?
Via College Fix:
Two conservative Dartmouth College students who tried to attend campus activists’ strategy meeting on how to mark the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday on campus were refused admittance after organizers determined the two young men were not registered Democrats.
Freshman Sandor Farkas, 18, one of the two rejected students, said he and his friend had planned to politely listen to the views of others in the name of “positive political discourse.”
“What I am really frustrated at is the fact that we can’t have reasonable discussions about these issues,” he said in an interview with The College Fix. “It has to be very private, secretive – and I don’t think that represents the spirit of MLK or in trying to create an awareness of various issues.” […]
Rickford teaches mainstream history classes at Dartmouth in addition to courses such as “Black Radical Tradition in America” and “Black America since the Civil War,” according to his online college profile.
“Russell Rickford specializes in the black radical tradition and black political culture after WWII,” his profile states. “He is dedicated to convincing young people that they must think for themselves (as Malcolm X argued) and rigorously investigate political ideologies, especially their own.”
Farkas said in recent talks with Rickford, his faculty advisor, the professor has said the MLK holiday is a “tool of the far-right imperialists to appease people” and that the holiday never represented anything Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. believed in, that it should be more of a protest day.