Leftist mob attacks conservatives at Tennessee State University
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If you think the left is tamping down its violent rhetoric and terrorist murder attempts of conservatives, think again. Earlier this week an independent group of conservatives wearing MAGA hats decided to set up a table at Tennessee State University (TSU), inviting anyone to debate the merits or failures of DEI.
Very quickly a mob formed, stealing their signs and becoming increasingly threatening, with at least one carrying a screwdriver in a threatening manner. The police arrived, but did literally nothing to protect the students.
Eventually the students closed up their table and attempted to drive away, only to have their car surrounded by the mob and blocked from leaving. It took an extensive effort for the police to clear a path to let these students escape.
Watch for yourself below. And note, such mob violence against conservatives on campuses is not new. I have been reporting such events now for years. The only difference now is that the mobs appear to becoming more violent and aggressive.
Here are @TSUedu students repeatedly stealing and destroying our signs yesterday. You see them bring screwdrivers as weapons, and then block us into the campus when we tried to leave. pic.twitter.com/CLXUFS0ghZ
— Cam Higby 🇺🇸 (@camhigby) September 24, 2025
Note too that the university and the press quickly rallied around the mob. TSU issued a statement filled with lies, claiming that “At all times, TSU students conducted themselves in a professional and respectful manner.” It also claimed these “unauthorized” Americans wishing to exercise their first amendment rights on public ground were somehow a threat to the safety of the mob, and the university’s action to help push them off the campus was to “ensure that campus remains a safe, welcoming, and orderly environment for all members of our community.” [emphasis mine]
It is very clear that TSU and its administration is anything but welcoming. It clearly approves of these Stalinist tactics of fear and terror.
I think the Tennessee legislature should look into the administration at TSU, and either clean house or cut off all funds. Its leadership very clearly supports mob action to block free speech.
Charlie Kirk is clearly not going to be the last conservative killed exercising his free speech rights. The left is clearly happy with his murder, and is quite willing to encourage more of the same in its immoral lust for power.
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I don’t think “Black Culture” is organic. I think it was created and sustained by the left to keep a population dysfunctional, angry, and dependent on the government.
Blacks in that culture can’t participate in the American dream.
Many older folks of the community are very socially conservative– older Black Men are best to carry the torch there.
You’re right, Jeff Wright, but overall the current picture is very bad, particularly for black males. Charlie Kirk quoted some FBI crime statistics on one of his last shows before his assassination.
And those statistics are absolutely stunning.
1 of every 22 black males have murdered someone (usually another black person) in their lifetime. And these are just the solved murders–a whopping 50% go unsolved.
50% of ALL black males will be arrested at least once before the age of 23. The Left of course blames racism.
That community clearly is massively broken while the Left spins one fairy tale after another to try to explain it away or blames bellringers like Charlie.
Deploying a massive police/military patrolling force is an effective short term solution in these communities, but the only long term solution is to somehow keep the fathers in the home.
I lived and worked at a pharmacy in the black neighborhood of a Chicago suburb in late 60’s-early 70s. The manager was black, a leader in the local church. We became good friends. He’d tear up when we’d talk about “what happened to the black family”? At his church I’d see the traditional, close black families. Matriarchal society for them, strong moms that looked out for their children, family, and neighbors. Dad worked his butt off to provide income, mom kept everyone on track. But the tide was turning, thanks to LBJ’s Great Society, aka, Slavery 2.0 . Replace Dad’s in the home with programs that eliminated them as a key part of the family, making them simply sperm donors that could mate and move along. Moms got housing, money to reproduce from the government. Who needs a Dad beyond the government? So, imo, they Democrat party has been. since their conception, the party of racism. Home of the KKK, supporters of the Confederacy that, when defeated in the Civil War, pursued Jim Crow laws, blocked school doors. It took LBJ and his team to devise a new plan to keep blacks down – slavery 2.0 . Pretty brilliant strategy when you think about it. Very clever, They got what the party wanted: 90+% of the black vote, pushed black moms and their children into high rise ghettos, pushed the sperm donors out of the picture. And we wonder why black men are angry? All blacks should be angry and express it at the ballot box. Realize that Democrats are the slave masters to this day. Vote them OUT.
“50% of ALL black males will be arrested at least once before the age of 23. The Left of course blames racism.”
And who is it who destroyed the black family structure in America that has caused this disparity and violent attitude towards others in American society?
Hmmm let me think, what and who could it be?????
irene,
You have it right. Johnson eventually accepted the Civil Rights Act, but in exchange he planned to have ‘blacks voting Democrat the for the next two hundred years.’ He did not use the word “blacks,” but he is almost a third of the way to his planned schedule. Slavery 2.0 is a good way to describe the results.
By James Street:
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/todays-blacklisted-americans-abraham-lincoln-and-george-washington/#comment-1107376
– Democrats, the party of the Confederacy.
– Democrats, the party of slavery.
– Democrats, the party who extended the Civil War to extend slavery.
– Democrats, the party who maintained slavery in Texas until Juneteenth.
– Democrats, the party of segregation.
– Democrats, the party of the Klan.
– Democrats, the party of Jim Crow laws.
– Democrats, the party of the president who interned Japanese-Americans.
– Democrats, the party of the president who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
– Democrats, the party of the president who dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
– Democrats, the party who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
– Democrats, the party who opposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
– Democrats, the party who opposed the Fair Housing Bill of 1968.
– Democrats, the party of George Wallace.
– Democrats, the party who used fire hoses and dogs for crowd control.
– Democrats, the party who kills unborn babies.
– Democrats, the party whose policies decimate the African-American community today.
– The “Big Switch” is a lie.
My contribution:
– Democrats, the party founded specifically to defend the institution of slavery. Slavery 2.0
– Democrats, the party of The Trail of Tears.
– Democrats, the party of eugenics.
– Democrats, the party of Wilson, who segregated the armed forces.
– Democrats, the party of Franklin Roosevelt, who instigated the redline policy for black neighborhoods for FHA loans.
Edward–I was going to quote that exact LBJ statement. A web search (using their lefty-trained AI bot) unsurprisingly claims the quote “can’t be verified”. A few more searches reveals the bot is quoting leftwing “fact checkers” like snopes.com.
We are increasingly in the middle of a full scale psychological war for truth, which one side is using as justification for violence when their ideas are easily disproved in open debate. So violence and terrorism along with obfuscation of the truth and censorship are their chief tactics.
It must also be allowed that fathers didn’t have to leave so to enjoy GI bills.
We all remember the brother of the prodigal son. I think there was some hard-heartedness where only single moms could benefit. It sounded good at that time.
After WWII, Russia was a whole country without fathers…those war children turned mean. I think Russia and China felt used after we propped up former Axis nations.
I just wish to high heaven that the United States had stayed out of WWI.
For what it’s worth, if these folks did not do anything wrong and it’s all on video, they should SUE the university for LIBEL/SLANDER.
I would also use the video to identify and sue everyone involved in destruction of property, and false imprisonment. And then add the university as accessory – before and after the fact. Also, deprivation of civil rights under color of authority, as the cops did not stop the violence against a “peaceable assembly.”
Look, folks, until they’re held accountable in a fashion that impacts their daily lives and their futures, THEY. WILL. NOT. STOP.
And, if the state can’t protect your rights, then you appeal higher. And if no one in government is willing to actually protect your rights, then we must return to a founding document of the United States. But you have to push a lot harder on holding them accountable, first.
the only long term solution is to somehow keep the fathers in the home.
Yes, Concerned. And the only way to do that is to move the people’s hearts and minds back to a Christian set of morals that helped found our country. And then get them to vote that way.
At least, it’s the only way to do it without some very unpleasant carp along the way.
James Street
September 26, 2025 at 5:57 pm
I don’t think “Black Culture” is organic. I think it was created and sustained by the left
Yes, and no. Read Thomas Sowell on “Black Rednecks”, about the culture (honor culture, acceptance of lawlessness, etc.) that some freed slaves took with them when they dispersed across America. They learned it from at least some of the folks that held them captive for so long. (It’s an Irish-Scots thing, and the same culture from which sprang things like “the Hatfields and McCoys.”)
Then along came a certain set of people needing to maintain the grievance grift, and demanded we not hold folks to a better culture. Because doing that was “racist.” And it goes from there.
GWB wrote: “ They learned it from at least some of the folks that held them captive for so long.”
The folks that held them captive for so long were, and still are, the leftists. The Democrats — leftists — have always been for power, control, and slavery. It is why, when they lost their slaves, they formed the KKK: to rid the south of the pesky Republicans, then to re-subjugate their once and future slaves. In that order. Jim Crow laws, segregation, and other evil deeds kept some amount of control over those who remained in the South. They were still captive, as long as they didn’t run to the North or to the West. Their culture was still dysfunctional, angry, and dependent on the very Democrats who had enslaved them.
The folks that held them captive for so long were, and still are, the leftists. When it looked like the Civil Rights Act would end the power, then Johnson and his Democrats shifted strategies to pretend to be best buddies, complete with their Uncle Toms. They were still captive, it just looked like freedom. Their culture was still dysfunctional, angry, and dependent on the very Democrat Party that had enslaved their ancestors. The Democrat leadership is not as dumb as their followers behave.
The folks that held them captive for so long were, and still are, the leftists. There was no mysterious and sudden “switching of sides.” The racists were racists before LBJ, and they remain racists after him. The conservatives were conservatives before LBJ, and they remain conservatives after him. The difference is that the leftists changed strategies from open hostility to pretending to be friendly while stabbing them in the back. “Aren’t we such nice guys, giving you freebies, but remember that you have to remain poor in order to continue receiving the free stuff.” Who doesn’t want free, unearned stuff, especially when they are poor? With frenemies like that, who needed conservatives (who think that people should earn what they get, not have it handed to them for free)? They were still captive, they just didn’t feel like it. Their culture was still dysfunctional, angry, and dependent on the very Democrat Party that had enslaved their ancestors.
Just when it looked like their culture was gaining functionality, peace with the world, and independence, Obama came along and stirred everything up all over again. Uncle Tom is still doing his thing, making sure that they don’t feel free and that their culture remains dysfunctional, angry, and dependent on the very Democrat Party that had enslaved their ancestors.
The folks that held them captive for so long were — and still are — the leftists. So, since they learned their culture from their captors, year after year, decade after decade, century after century, they learned it from the left, because six decades ago they learned to reject the right, the right that had helped them earn their Civil Rights Act. A decade and a half ago, they relearned to reject the right. Now the left pretends that they gave them their civil rights along with all that free stuff. Their culture is dysfunctional, angry, and dependent on the government that the left’s bureaucrats still control and are loath to lose.
Best known alum is Oprah Winfrey. Other than that it is mostly a collection of professional athletes. Sportsball factory
It appears that blacks, who are 13% of the total population, commit 50+% of the crime. Actually it’s worse than that: the crime is committed by black males who are half of that 13%, so in reality 6% commit 50+% of the crime. It’s hard to grasp the enormity of this fact: that half of the crime in America is committed by one racial group. Not Koreans, Chinese, Italians, Scots or Eskimos. Nothing can be done until this fact is admitted.
Richard-
If you really feel that way, I feel sorry for you and your ignorant world view.
Robert – Continue to give this small minded drivel a platform and history will not look so kindly on you.
Pure nonsense.
Mike a and Robert: Why is it that so many people today think good argumentation and debate is achieved with insults? It is so barbaric.
My readers and I are intelligent and quite willing to hear different perspectives, based on facts and thoughtful analysis. It remains a fact that the black community, saddled with slavery and racist oppression from its past and then further damaged badly by the government since the 1960s, remains the source of much of our nation’s violent crime. This is reality. Nor is it racist to note it. In fact, to solve it we all — and most especially the black community — are required to recognize it. Only by doing so can good people of all races begin to fix the problem.
Insults accomplish nothing however.
Robert-
How can you defend
“Best known alum is Oprah Winfrey.”
“Sportsball…”
As an attempt at a good faith “debate?”
Remove your own emotions from the discussion and see things for what they are.
Do better Robert.
And hey Richard-
Don’t forget that the best known alum is actually a former President.
I know that sticks in your craw even more than the leftists saying the same for Trump, based on your statements.
Mike a: You aren’t reading very carefully. My last comment was addressed to both you and Robert. I was not defending him, I was criticizing both him and you.
Mike a,
Both of your comments were purely emotional and lacked any logic, reasoning, or thoughtfulness as to why your position should stand.
However, I do not ask our host to block your clearly useless commentary, because you make a point that I have been espousing for years: People like you should be allowed to have their say, and we all should listen, because we will all then understand how tenuous your position is. You cannot make any good points to support your position, so you resort to emotion. “I am right, because I say so,” is not an argument. What if I were to ask Robert to remove all your commentary, just because I disagreed with it? Clearly, we would not lose any clarity or thought; nothing has been added to this discussion, so nothing would be lost by removing your comment. At least Richard has a thought about a best known alum.
So, Mike, I hope Richard continues to comment here. At least he has a thought to bring to the discussion. Wouldn’t it have been so much better for you to have disagrees with Richard and explained why you disagreed? Long-term, I think that the guy who has a national holiday named after him will become, once again, the best known alum.
I also hope you continue to comment here. Without trying, you make one of my major recurring points, here on BTB, and that is just peachy for me. By continuing to give both of you a platform, history will look kindly on Robert for supporting free speech, even though he may disagree with what is said. Who was it that said, “I Disapprove of What You Say, But I Will Defend to the Death Your Right to Say It?” Patrick Henry? Voltaire? Beatrice Hall?
Mike a assumes that allowing a comment to be posted is the same as endorsing the sentiment expressed.
He even asks Mr Z do defend someone else’s post
This is a typical left action to try to force censorship and suppression of speech.
No, I say, let the idiots post their drivel, so we may see them for who they really are.
That includes both Richard and Mike A.
Also, intersectionality—however well meaning, exacerbates blood guilt—for which there can be no forgiveness. Humanists want to see what humans have in common. Grudges over blood guilt are sadly a poison you drink hoping the other guys dies.
Forgiveness isn’t something you do for the other parties benefit—it is something you do to assert agency over your own life.
Become too apologetic—you get used…and get bitter over that. I’ve been there.
“I Disapprove of What You Say, But I Will Defend to the Death Your Right to Say It?”
That sounds a lot like Voltaire; and given his lifestyle, I’ve imagined him saying it drunk, at a party with lots of powdered wigs.
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