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Berkeley students block pedestrian bridge to whites

Fascists and bigots: Protesting students at the University of California-Berkeley blocked whites from access to a pedestrian bridge while apparently also demanding segregated spaces for non-white students.

A video of the protest shows demonstrators repeatedly heckling white passersby, barring them entry to a key bridge on campus by forming a human chain while simultaneously allowing students of color to pass unmolested. At one point, the video even shows a protester refusing to allow an older white man to cross the bridge, eventually directing him to cross by way of a creek that flows underneath the bridge.

As I have said, the hate is real. These are dangerous people, absolutely convinced and certain that they are right. This certainty in turn gives them the right to oppress anyone who either disagrees with them or happens to not belong to their favored ethnic or racial group.

The KKK would understand entirely.

Genesis cover

On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

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"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

12 comments

  • Orion314

    Odd how, over time, the groups that opposed segregation now support it. Old and new cultures never mix well..

  • wayne

    Berkeley May 1969
    “Reagan & Hippies”
    https://youtu.be/B21KMA31hM8

    “All of it began the first time, some of you who know better & are old enough to know better, let young people think they had the right to choose the Laws they would obey, as long as they were doing it in the name of social-protest.”

  • Cotour

    This is a violation of their rights, anyone who has been detained in such a way needs to secure him or herself a Constitutional lawyer and sue those who executed the denial of access and the University itself for allowing it.

    For a lot of $$$$$$$.

  • hondo

    This is a harbinger of the future. And the future is not bright.
    A clear indicator of a “Cultural Revolution” with a new version of the “Red Guard”.
    Escalation to violence and blood may well be unavoidable.

  • Cotour

    It is traced right back to the White House, the Leftists need racial discord and chaos.

  • wayne

    September 2008:
    “Sing For Change”
    https://youtu.be/WtGrp5MbzAI
    (creepy collectivists exploiting their children)

  • Frank

    Apparently some safe spaces are now specifically black spaces.

  • wodun

    Odd how, over time, the groups that opposed segregation now support it.

    Actually, the Democrats created segregation. Desegregation took place during Reconstruction but the Democrats Woodrow Wilson brought it back. Segregation in the South was a product of the Democrat party and they fought for a hundred years to prevent it from ending.

    You will notice there is little difference between modern day Democrats and Democrats from the 1950’s when it comes to race except they have different targets for their racial hatred. They use righteous indignation and dehumanization to justify actions against their victims. They scapegoat racial and ethnic groups and blame them for all of society’s problems. They have even changed the definition of words so that Democrats can not be considered racist. A rather convenient get out of jail card for their systematic racial persecution.

    Democrats being against the mixing of races and ethnicities is just them getting back to their roots.

  • Edward

    wodun wrote: “They scapegoat racial and ethnic groups and blame them for all of society’s problems.

    When this was done in Europe, three quarters of a century ago, it ended badly.

    wodun wrote: “They have even changed the definition of words so that Democrats can not be considered racist.

    How true. Sounds a little like newspeak:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmF6kdV2bQk (7 minutes, “Andrew Breitbart is a Racist”)

  • Dave Williams

    And the cops are where?

  • Garry

    If this ever happens to me, I’m going to give them a bright, conspiratorial smile, and say “Hey, thanks for using satire to show people that racism is bad, no matter who it’s directed towards. Thanks for expanding closed, bigoted minds who think that skin color is the be-all, end-all!”

  • Wayne

    Dave Williams–
    it’s University property, the school-cops have jurisdiction and would only do what they are told by the administration.

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