Black Democrat Student is Called ‘Uncle Tom’ for Defending Free Speech
This is racism, straight up.
The College Fix reports.
Black, Democrat student called ‘Uncle Tom’ for defending free speech
Uncle Tom. Ben Carson. Clarence Thomas.
Those are just a few of the names 20-year-old Zach Wood said he has been called by peers this school year as a student at Williams College, an elite New England institution in rural Massachusetts.
But that’s not all. He’s been accused of promoting “violent ideologies” on campus — and dipping his hands in the blood of “black and brown (trans) femme sisters.”
Wood’s crime?
He’s the leader of an unofficial student group called Uncomfortable Learning that seeks to challenge students to think outside the progressive and preppy college’s so-called Purple Bubble by bringing thought-provoking speakers to campus.
Nevermind that Wood is a Democrat. Or that he’s planning to vote for Hillary Clinton. Or that his Facebook page is peppered with photos of him engaging with progressive leaders such as Susan Rice, Cornel West and Bernie Sanders.
Wood’s emphatic support of free thought, free speech, and freedom of academic and intellectual inquiry – even to the point that he invites speakers to campus that tout anti-feminist ideals and racially charged arguments – has made him an outsider among left-liberal peers and professors.
“I am to the left, I am a Democrat,” said Wood in an interview with The College Fix. “I just happen to be very open to hearing different ideas. … I have friends who are conservative and I agree with them on some things. I am definitely a moderate liberal.”
For that, the political science and philosophy major has a target on his back.
“I am black – I have been called an Uncle Tom, I have been called Ben Carson, it’s been said that I am Don Lemon’s child … I have been called Clarence Thomas,” Wood said.
Black, Democrat student called ‘Uncle Tom’ for defending free speech (The College Fix)
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I wonder if Zach Wood knows what a good and decent man Uncle Tom was?
His entry at Wikipedia is likely to get changed soon, so here are the current quotes.
“At the time of the novel’s initial publication in 1851 Uncle Tom was a rejection of the existing stereotypes of minstrel shows; Stowe’s melodramatic story humanized the suffering of slavery for White audiences by portraying Tom as a Christlike figure who is ultimately martyred, beaten to death by a cruel master because Tom refuses to betray the whereabouts of two women who had escaped from slavery.[3][4] Stowe reversed the gender conventions of slave narratives by juxtaposing Uncle Tom’s passivity against the daring of three African American women who escape from slavery.[3] ”
“The novel was both influential and commercially successful, published as a serial from 1851 to 1852 and as a book from 1852 onward.[3][4] An estimated 500,000 copies had sold worldwide by 1853, including unauthorized reprints.[5] Senator Charles Sumner credited Uncle Tom’s Cabin for the election of Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln himself reportedly quipped that Stowe had triggered the American Civil War.[3] Frederick Douglass praised the novel as “a flash to light a million camp fires in front of the embattled hosts of slavery”.[3] ”
Clarence Thomas gets a lot of grief, but like his politics or not, he is the second black person to serve on the US Supreme Court, after a pioneering career in law at a time when blacks were not particularly welcome. The song “We shall Overcome” is emblematic of his life.
Ben Carson is my favorite candidate for US President.
I hope Mr. Wood uses the name-calling incidents as an opportunity to educate the ignorant children around him.