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To: zax who wrote (962195)	9/8/2016 6:42:26 AM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1574591

‘White Week’ Fliers Prompt Protest, Investigation on Kentucky Campus Fliers mocking “Welcome Black Week” with a “Welcome White Week” posted around the Northern Kentucky University campus this week have prompted demonstrations against racial intolerance on campus and an investigation by school officials. The fliers advertise a number of events and seminars around campus such as “White Lives Matter vs. Black Lives Matter,” “Pizza Party for Tolerance” and “L.G.B.T.Q.R.S.T.U.V. and You” in an apparent attempt to ridicule the school’s annual “Welcome Black Week” events. “Welcome Black Week” has been a fixture on the NKU and several other campuses across the country for several years. It is intended to introduce incoming freshman to the array of programs and organizations focusing on the black experience. Among this year’s events were a BBQ with the Black Student Union and a reception with faculty from the African American Studies program. The student newspaper at NKU, the Northerner, said some students on campus were so incensed by the “Welcome White Week” messages that they joined hands in a circle in the student union plaza early Tuesday evening and chanted that they “will not be guided by fear or defeat” and “will beat the odds that are against” them. View image on Twitter Follow Abby Anstead @AbbyAnstead Students gathered to demonstrate against the 'White Lives Matter' poster hung next to 'Welcome Black Week.' 6:14 PM - 6 Sep 2016 · Highland Heights, KY, United States 3131 Retweets 2626 likes The protesting students told reporters on the scene about feeling left out on campus. One student spoke about being the only black student in her education class, and another about her trouble finding study partners for chemistry. Follow Abby Anstead @AbbyAnstead Geordan Pryor gets emotional as she discusses the issues she has faced as a black student. @northernermedia 6:34 PM - 6 Sep 2016 · Highland Heights, KY, United States 1010 Retweets 1111 likes “We worked hard for Welcome Black Week in response to the lack of representation in the universal programs within Welcome Week,” said Junior James Johnson, one of the organizers of the protest. “The reason they did this [posted the “Welcome White Week” flyer] was because we had Welcome Black Week. The reason we had Welcome Black Week was because we weren’t initially included in the festivities the university has.” Follow Abby Anstead @AbbyAnstead "You know you defeat ignorance with knowledge... And overall you defeat hate with love." - @PresidentMearns 6:42 PM - 6 Sep 2016 · Highland Heights, KY, United States 88 Retweets 1313 likes University officials, who said the flier was in no way authorized by the school and is now the subject of an intense investigation, said they welcomed the “constructive conversation” started by the racially charged fliers. “You know how you defeat ignorance is through knowledge,” University President Geoffrey Mearns told the gathered protestors. “You defeat despair and cynicism with faith and hope. You defeat darkness with light and overall you defeat hate with love.” No one has claimed responsibility for posting the fliers. Ge

To: zax who wrote (962195)	9/8/2016 6:43:37 AM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1574591

"Interesting, a flier parodying an exclusionary, discriminatory, or even a racist event (black welcome week) triggers students and has them claiming they, who are participating in hate or discrimination, will overcome hate and discrimination? Insanity, since when is pointing out discrimination, discrimination? I guess when the racists have taken over and get away with their behavior and no one has the stones to challenge them."

To: zax who wrote (962195)	9/8/2016 8:17:18 AM
From: puborectalis	2 Recommendations Recommended By bentway zax Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574591

Trump did especially badly on Wednesday when he was repeatedly pressed about stupid things he had said in the past: For example, that he knows more about ISIS than the generals do, or that Vladimir Putin is "highly respected within his own country and beyond" and is "getting an A" for leadership. Trump is incapable of disavowing such statements or effectively changing the subject. Instead, he doubles down. By aggressively pushing back, interrupting and correcting when Trump is in the wrong, Clinton can rattle and annoy him, drawing out responses that escalate in both anger and stupidity. Consider, for example, Trump's Miss Teen South Carolina-level word salad when pressed on whether he really has a plan to beat ISIS, a line of questioning that somehow led Trump into saying he'll probably replace much of the career leadership of the military soon after entering office: LAUER: But yesterday, you actually told us a little bit about your plan in your speech. You said this. Quote, "We're going to convene my top generals and they will have 30 days to submit a plan for soundly and quickly defeating ISIS." So is the plan you've been hiding this whole time asking someone else for their plan? TRUMP: No. But when I do come up with a plan that I like and that perhaps agrees with mine, or maybe doesn't — I may love what the generals come back with. I will convene ... LAUER: But you have your own plan? TRUMP: I have a plan. But I want to be — I don't want to — look. I have a very substantial chance of winning. Make America great again. We're going to make America great again. I have a substantial chance of winning. If I win, I don't want to broadcast to the enemy exactly what my plan is. LAUER: But you're going to ... TRUMP: And let me tell you, if I like maybe a combination of my plan and the generals' plan, or the generals' plan, if I like their plan, Matt, I'm not going to call you up and say, "Matt, we have a great plan." This is what Obama does. "We're going to leave Iraq on a certain day." LAUER: But you're going to convene a panel of generals, and you've already said you know more about ISIS than those generals do. TRUMP: Well, they'll probably be different generals, to be honest with you. Or consider his response to a questioning about his past praise of Putin. Asked repeatedly about this, Trump proceeded to Praise Putin's 82% approval rating. Claim Putin called him "brilliant" (Putin says he didn't ). Say he'll say nice things about Putin as long as Putin says nice things about him. Call Putin "very much of a leader" with "very strong control over his country" (in which he has decimated the independent press and allegedly had political opponents assassinated). Say Putin has been a far stronger leader than Barack Obama. In both of these series of questions, Trump got more rattled, more adamant, and more bizarre as the questioning went on. And that was just under aggressive questioning by an interviewer. Imagine how he's likely to react under pressure from a political opponent.