Reprise: Trump Had Police Remove A Clemson Professor In Muslim Headdress From Event

Updated Compendium Of Pax Posts About Donald Trump

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/01/donald-trump-paranoid-style-in-american.html

Update On Ivana Trump's Revelations Concerning Donald's Fondness For Hitler's Speeches 

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/08/update-on-ivana-trumps-revelations.html

"Mediocre Philosophy Sells. It Makes The Half-Literate Feel Smart"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/05/reprise-mediocre-philosophy-sells-it.html

Where Have We Seen Trump's Oratorical Style Before?

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/01/where-have-we-seen-trumps-oratorical.html

Moderate Republican For Trump: Only Trump Can Restore GOP Sanity... By A Landslide Loss

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/07/dear-fred-last-night-after-spanish.html

Alan: Despite Trump's encouragement of the worst angels of our nature, I want him to win the Republican nomination 

in order to reveal the terrified face of American conservatism.

Remember: If you're terrified, the terrorists won.
And you made their victory possible.

Donald Trump Had Police Remove a Clemson Professor in Muslim Headdress from Campaign Event

Donald Trump spoke in Clemson, South Carolina yesterday. People piled into the Garrison Arena, a place where the local livestock shows typically take place. They were there to hear his normal message and do what people do at Donald Trump rallies. The routine at these events is growing disturbingly familiar. Lots of folks, most of them white, get together to exercise a little anger. They celebrate white populism amid calls to Make America Great Again. There are grand calls to build a wall, and Trump’s odd promise that he’ll make people “happy” by having America win again in some ambiguous international superiority contest. 

See the video here: 

 Occasionally he uses the local police to bully people who look like they might be Muslim. 

That’s what happened in Clemson. First, a little context. 

I started at Clemson more than a decade ago. I dipped deep into the belly of the Clemson’s racial beast a number of times. I watched there as the university’s most popular fraternity pledged allegiance to Robert E. Lee as the group’s ideological godfather. In 2006, I watched as the campus splintered after a group of white students dressed in blackface for a Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend party they called “Living the Dream.” Each day, I walked past a building named for “Pitchfork” Ben Tillman, a building famously renamed for him for his “contributions” to the university and the state. Tillman, of course, led gangs of Southern terrorists in lynchings of black men. He said openly on the floor of the legislature that “lynch law” was the only law. Swell guy. 

I’ve watched as Clemson football fans booed the very mention of the President of the United States during a ceremony to recognize the efforts of ROTC members. Over the last year or more, the university’s board of directors has shown itself woefully unprepared to lead in the 21st century by dismissing the legitimate concerns of black students over the environment on the campus. Those students weren’t asking for a whole lot. They just wanted an investment in minority achievement and for the university to stop honoring Tillman, a man who actively hunted their great grandfathers like those men were animals. 

Of course, it’s never been a friendly place for minority students, and especially for Muslim students. During my time there, I never knew a Muslim. I met my first real life Muslim when I moved to Houston. It should come as no surprise that Donald Trump’s message resonates in Clemson. If what you’re seeking is an environment dominated by white “Christian” males who are just real fed up with “PC Culture,” then Clemson is just your speed. 

Yesterday, a Clemson professor and a Clemson graduate student—both black—went to Trump’s rally. The professor wore a traditional head covering that would quite obviously set off the outsized fear portion of the brains of many people in attendance. He took his seat like everyone else at the event. He stood, like Clemson fans do for the entirety of football games, while listening to Trump speak. Not longer after, members of the Pickens County Sheriff’s Department began following him. He was asked to leave. Eventually, those cops, dressed in pseudo-military gear, explained the reason. 

The Trump Campaign Says You’re No Longer Welcome. 

Of course the cops were offloading the blame. And they were right. They were just executing Trump’s wishes, and of course, his legal right, to exclude someone from his private event. 

The reaction has been predictable. On message boards and articles, people are commenting about the “agenda” of the professor. He should be fired, they’re saying, because he clearly went there looking to generate this response. 

To that I say, “So what?” So a guy with a voice went to an event to confirm that Donald Trump doesn’t allow peaceful Muslims to participate in his events? What does that have to do with the fact that Trump, when given the opportunity to do so, proved all of the professor’s points right? A child predator is no less a child predator because he was lured to a home by a police officer pretending to be a teenage girl. And Trump is no less a bigot because he was caught in his bigotry by a man who probably wanted to be thrown out of the event. 

It’s Clemson. I’ve come to expect nothing better. During football season, you’ll see article after article run about how Clemson’s a “family.” You’ll hear my fellow alumnae crow and cry that “There’s something in these hills.” It’s the old rallying myth that belies the truth—Clemson isn’t all that hospitable if you look a little different. And in that same way, neither is Trump. We already knew that, though. That he’s finding bedfellows in the places that have proven themselves racially intolerant should tell us everything we need to know about the true roots of the support for Donald Trump. 

"Muslims Are Not That Scary"

The Daily Mail

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3392574/Muslims-not-scary-Muslim-woman-56-kicked-Donald-Trump-event-booed-audience-says-wanted-people-know-her.html