Creighton U. prof calls pro-police gathering a ‘white supremacist rally’

DAVE HUBER - ASSOCIATE EDITOR •JULY 11, 2020

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A Creighton University professor of theology recently referred to an Omaha, Nebraska pro-law enforcement “Back the Blue” demonstration as a “white supremacist rally” which would “showcase Midwestern racism.”

It’s not known what prompted Professor Zachary Smith to make the tweet; he’s since deleted not only the tweet in question but his entire Twitter account. He did respond to a Fix inquiry about his comments.

The “Back the Blue” event, scheduled for Saturday morning at the city’s Memorial Park, will feature speakers and music performances.

According to a Facebook post by the Creighton College Republicans, Omaha Police Officers Association President Anthony Connor noted that every speaker at the gathering is a member of a minority group, including the first black president of the OPOA.

Creighton CRs President Tyler Henningsen said Professor Smith’s comments “are not just morally repugnant, they are a slap in the face of law enforcement officers who risk their lives every day …”

The CRs added that if Smith does not offer a public apology, he should resign.

Virgil Patlan, an Hispanic former Omaha police officer whose wife will be speaking at the Saturday event, told KFAB‘s Scott Vorhees that he’d “never been called a white supremacist before.”

According to his faculty page, Professor Smith’s scholarship deals mainly with “late antique, medieval, and Byzantine Christianity, focusing on asceticism and monasticism, and the relationship between Christianity and Greco-Roman society.” Aside from religion courses, Smith also teaches in the Women and Gender Studies Program.

Maxine Waters: Trump, Supporters Believe It Is Their Right to Ensure Blacks Don’t Have Power

PAM KEY12 Jul 20201,235 2:13

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Sunday on MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) said both President Donald Trump and his supporters believe they have a right to “ensure that blacks and people of color and others do not rise to any level of influence and power.”

Host Joy Reid said, “Roger Stone found guilty by a jury on seven federal criminal counts, no jail time. Kalief Browder, accused of stealing a backpack couldn’t post bail, spent three years at Rikers Island awaiting trial, ultimately committed suicide after release. We have two justice systems in our country. This is the reason that the Black Lives Matter movement has taken hold, that there are two systems of justice for the rich, the poor, the white, the Black. What do you make of those who are still to this day criticizing Black Lives Matter, such as Senator Kelly Loeffler? What do you make of that, that they are still doing that?”

Waters said, “I think you said it earlier today when you talked about this need for Trump and those who support him to want to, you know, have absolute power and to believe that it is their right and their responsibility to ensure that blacks and people of color and others do not rise to any level of influence and power, significant that would cause them not to be in total charge of the country.”

She continued, “So that young man is typical of so many young black men and women who have been sent to jail, who have been convicted, who have served long sentences. This justice system is broken. It has never really been in our favor, and it has basically been responsible for ensuring that we could never ever get beyond this suppression and this oppression that has been forced upon us for so many years. So those who criticize Black Lives Matter, they can continue to do that, but I want to tell you the time has come now where we are joined by so many others who really were not there for us in the past. You saw it in all of the protests where you had whites and blacks and Asians and old and young, all saying something is wrong with this country. Something is wrong with our criminal justice system. Something is wrong with our policing. It is racism.”

Schools prepare to train children in Marxist BLM curriculum

'Activist educators' allowing radical movement to 'warp' students' worldviews

WND Staff By WND Staff

Published July 12, 2020 at 3:51pm

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Public schools nationwide are adopting Black Lives Matter curriculum presenting themes such as "systemic racism," "police brutality" and "white privilege" while turning children into "little Marxists," according to the Federalist.

The New York City Department of Education is one of many school systems set to roll out the BLM-themed lesson plans this fall, write Sloan Rachmuth and Katie Jensen.

This summer, North Carolina's largest school system, in Wake County, launched a website providing BLM lessons for teachers to use in classrooms and for parents to use at home. It urges teachers to "address the injustices that exist beyond education by the conversations we have with others, by speaking up when we see hate, by supporting efforts that oppose racism and oppression, and by directly engaging in advocacy work."

The Federalist writers contend that while condemning racism is laudable, it's not what's really happening.

"By bringing BLM into the classroom, activist educators are allowing the most radically divisive movement in modern American history to warp children’s worldviews," they write.

Wake County's BLM teaching resource appears to be a legitimate civics education resource, but it "lays out a cult-like recruiting process for students to follow. Step one: Recognize your white privilege. Step two: Learn the dos and don'ts of being an ally. Step three: Recruit more members to learn steps one and two."

Step three of the recruitment process states that "racial equity accountability must be tied to specific outcomes."

The outcomes clearly are centered on activism on behalf of the BLM movement.

Noting BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors is featured on the homepage of the Wake County School System's website, The Federalist points out she and another co-founder are self-proclaimed "trained Marxists."

In a 2018 interview, Cullors also boasted of receiving training from a former member of the domestic terrorist group Weather Underground who was charged with attempted murder of police officers in Boston in 1969.

Cullors is a vocal anti-Israel activist and close ally of the anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. She organized a BLM event in Los Angeles May 30 in which three Jewish schools and five synagogues were vandalized with graffiti such as "Free Palestine" and "F-ck Israel."

Another public school plan, in Philadelphia, aims to "work towards an anti-racist agenda" and "learning mindsets and practices rooted in Black liberation," The Federalist reports.

Black liberation is a Marxist theological and social movement that emerged in the late 1960s that regards America and all of its institutions as "systemically racist."

President Barack Obama's former spiritual leader Rev. Jeremiah Wright was a devotee who famously summed up the movement in a sermon: "No, no, no, not God bless America! God d-mn America."

RED NOVEMBER: How the Democratic Party Has Brought America to the Brink of Socialism

HANNAH BLEAU 12 Jul 202051 6:01

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part 1

The Democrat Party’s presidential primary marked a significant shift, as socialist ideas – openly embraced by the likes of Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) — took center stage, bringing the far-left’s radical agenda to the mainstream party.

Progressive leaders worked overtime to remove the taboo around the word “socialism” and fundamentally altered the Democratic Party’s future – a future they hope to impose on the nation as a whole, as Breitbart News senior editor-at-large Joel B. Pollak details in his upcoming book, RED NOVEMBER.

In it, Pollak relates how the Democrat Party entered uncharted territory in 2019, as Sanders, whose ideas were once considered too radical to be embraced by the mainstream left – took center stage. He entered the presidential arena with the intention of finishing what he started during the 2016 election: It was time for a political revolution in the United States, he declared.

The Vermont socialist pitched his presidential run as a “movement” rather than a presidential campaign alone. It was a “multi-­generational, multi-racial, grassroots movement,” he said, telling his excited supporters on the campaign trail, “Let’s transform this country.”

He soon earned the endorsements of three of four members of the freshman “Squad,” who proudly owned the “democratic socialist” label once considered taboo.

One would be hard-pressed to explain Joe Biden’s current leftward political trajectory without recognizing the impact Sanders’ movement played on moving the party, and the presumptive nominee, across old “moderate” political boundaries – boundaries Democrat politicians had become accustomed to hiding behind, particularly during elections, traditionally moving to the center rather than further to the left.

Biden has emerged as “arguably the most left-wing Democratic Party nominee ever,” as Pollak details in RED NOVEMBER:

Former vice president Joe Biden, who led the polls throughout the early months of the campaign, was the most left-wing front-runner in American political history. He promised to raise taxes immediately, end the use of fossil fuels, and use federal taxpayers’ money to pay for abortions, among other proposals. … And, like his rivals, he proposed to make health care free for illegal aliens.

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part 2

Sanders’ full embrace of socialism essentially opened the door for the establishment media to portray the former vice president as a “moderate,” despite his new, radical positions. Biden’s promise to eliminate fossil fuels did not pack the same punch as Sanders’ sweeping plan for a $16 trillion Green New Deal. Sanders’ call to decriminalize border crossings and restructure U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lessened the impact of Biden’s brazen pledge to halt the deportation of criminal illegal aliens from the United States in his first 100 days in office. And Biden’s commitment to building on Obamacare paled in comparison to Sanders’ blunt admittance of raising taxes on the middle class to implement a single-payer health care system in the U.S.

Yet the proposals presented by both candidates were among the most radical ever offered during a Democrat presidential campaign.

With that agenda on the ballot, Democrats would “either bring their party to ruin—or usher in a new United Socialist States of America,” as Pollak observes.

While the socialist revolution, once again, failed to materialize with Sanders as its leader (following the Democrat establishment’s strategic move in thwarting the senator’s campaign just 72 hours prior to Super Tuesday), the left’s crusade for a socialist America lives on. And while the Democrat establishment tends to view the former vice president as more palatable to the independent voter in a general election matchup, Biden has since moved even further to the left, working with Sanders and his political posse of far-left supporters, one of whom recently called for the dismantling of the America’s economic and political systems.

Biden removed all doubt following the release of the “Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force” proposal, commissioned by both figures.

Far-left Democrats like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who played a significant role in crafting the climate change portion of the proposal as co-chair of the Climate Task Force, bragged that members had “meaningfully & substantively improved Biden’s positions.”

The 110-page vision offers ideas that would have once been considered far too radical for any mainstream political campaign. It proposes a commission to study and recommend remedies or “reparations,” ushering in an end to cash bail, repealing so-called ‘right to work’ laws, ending the construction of the border wall, and rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement, among other proposals.

Now, Sanders – whom many credit for popularizing socialism, ridding it of negative connotations associated with the failed ideology as seen in countries like Venezuela — believes Biden has the potential to be the “most progressive president since FDR.”

Biden’s embrace of socialist ideals, in the context of a global pandemic and the left’s ongoing culture war — hallmarked by riots, violence, government overreach, and fake news — shows that, once again, America is standing at a crossroads.

“And it is the story Andrew Breitbart anticipated a decade ago: that America would increasingly face a clear choice between Tea Party and Occupy—between the restoration of its founding ideals or a democratic socialist revolution in the style of the rivals America had defeated,” Pollak writes.

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Another (long time) e-commerce anon here. Written countless lines of code to sell products online since the "EToys" days.

When you have multiple levels of development (dev, staging, production) in a high visibility company - each level having teams of QA people checking, double-checking every code release for issues; my spidey senses tell me there's a fox in the henhouse. For this degree of fuckery to occur, someone (or some people) in the highest levels of the company strata HAD to be involved.

It doesn't help that Wayfair was so quick to dismiss this as some kind of "lighting strike" on their platform. This just doesn't pass the smell test.