Posted on Mar 1, 2016
Valdosta State University black students escorted out of Trump rally
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This actually bigger than Trump although he seems to be the one actively encouraging it, allowing his staff to "pick" who can and cannot be at his events. I don't like the idea of anyone interrupting a open forum to speak on a subject, but there are others in attendance, and what you say interrupting the candidate takes away from your message in itself. But when the candidate can "pick" who stays and who goes at an event, are we not practicing a new form of segregation? It's bigger than racial segregation, but can be sexual, spiritual, or a litany of other means that it's conveyed. If this is where we've come to, no matter who the future POTUS is, all this talk of "rights being taken away" might actually come to fruition. Problem is, it won't be because of someone outside the country causing the situation, it'll be because we (natural born and naturalized citizens), would've acted in a manner that leaves our elected officials to take away those rights we already take for granted.
Valdosta State University black students escorted out of Trump rally
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No different than a Marine getting escorted out of a rally when confronting Clinton.
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SSG Warren Swan
SGM, that would be true except in this case, the event hadn't even started yet. You have a group of students who had done nothing wrong other than be...Black. It wasn't even mentioned that they had on anything that could offend. So they were removed for no solid reason other than they're black and an assumption was made that "maybe" they're part of BLM? The Marine that was removed interrupted Clinton talking. I don't care that he's a vet or whatever, when BLM does it I don't give them a pass either. There are ways to do things, and there are more ways how NOT to do them. In the two latter cases, both exercised the ways of how NOT to do it.
This is from the police chief: "The police chief said he thinks the Trump staff made the right call — and it wasn’t a racial issue.
Trump had rented the venue, so “he had the right to tell folks he didn’t want to be there, that they had to leave. I’m not campaigning for anyone. That’s not what I do. But in this case, I support them,” Childress said". So you rent out a public venue gives you the right to tell who you don't like not to come based off skin color? PUBLIC VENUE? If I was to rent out the DC Convention Center and say only one skin color but no others are allowed, all hell would break loose, and rightfully so. If I'm on a college campus where the students are already paying to use the facilities before, during, and after I'm gone, no one should have the "right" to tell them they cannot come in based off skin color.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/02/29/donald-trump-georgia-rally-valdosta/81129964/
This is from the police chief: "The police chief said he thinks the Trump staff made the right call — and it wasn’t a racial issue.
Trump had rented the venue, so “he had the right to tell folks he didn’t want to be there, that they had to leave. I’m not campaigning for anyone. That’s not what I do. But in this case, I support them,” Childress said". So you rent out a public venue gives you the right to tell who you don't like not to come based off skin color? PUBLIC VENUE? If I was to rent out the DC Convention Center and say only one skin color but no others are allowed, all hell would break loose, and rightfully so. If I'm on a college campus where the students are already paying to use the facilities before, during, and after I'm gone, no one should have the "right" to tell them they cannot come in based off skin color.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/02/29/donald-trump-georgia-rally-valdosta/81129964/
Black students ejected from Trump rally in Ga.
The incident came as Trump rallied supporters in one of many Southern states holding Super Tuesday contests.
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Maj Rob Drury
While it may have been intimated in the headline, there is no indication or suggestion from anyone but the ejected students themselves that they were removed because of their skin color. In fact, the police chief specificallly stated that this wasn't the case. Trump and the campaign staff were not even aware of the incident as it was occuring. One of the ejected individuals stated that they came "just to make a statement with our attire."
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read the article at the link. Trump didn't ask to have them escorted out, Trump's campaign didn't ask to have them escorted out, the secret service protecting Trump didn't ask to have them escorted out. The host committee (aka the powers that be at Valdosta State) and local law enforcement made the call. Maybe they knew something about this group of students that a bunch of people on the internet do not?
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