A HIGH-PROFILE Black Lives Matter protester lecturing students at Yale said protesters who have destroyed private property in cities like Ferguson, Missouri, were employing a “righteous tactic” to force change.
DeRay McKesson, the 30-year-old activist hired to deliver for-credit lectures at the prestigious university for two days, said Black Lives looters are the modern-day equivalent to the patriots behind the historic Boston Tea Party.
The lecturer had students examine an essay written over the summer titled “In Defense of Looting.”
Here’s an excerpt from the lengthy piece:
The mystifying ideological claim that looting is violent and non-political is one that has been carefully produced by the ruling class because it is precisely the violent maintenance of property which is both . . . → Read More: Black Lives Activist Says Looting, Destroying Private Property is Patriotic