PCU: College President Apologizes For Email Saying ‘All Lives Matter’

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PCU: College President Apologizes For Email Saying ‘All Lives Matter’

Posted By Derek Hunter On 10:43 PM 12/10/2014 In | No Comments


In the town of Northampton, Mass., Smith College is known for its beautiful campus and its hostility toward those who refuse to toe the progressive line.

Smith President Kathleen McCartney wasn’t refusing to toe the line, she thought she was saying the right things when she wrote “All lives matter” in the subject line of a campus-wide email expressing solidarity with protesters upset over the grand jury decisions in New York and Ferguson. But intentions did not matter, McCartney was soon educated that, in fact, all lives do not matter, at least to the protesters.

The acceptable vernacular is “Black lives matter,” not all lives. McCartney sent a second email apologizing for her wrongheaded assumption.

One student replied to the first email by writing, “It minimizes the anti-blackness of this the current situation; yes, all lives matter, but not all lives are being targeted for police brutality.” Another, Smith sophomore Cecelia Lim was so upset by the subject line of McCartney’s original email, she said, “It felt like she was invalidating the experience of black lives.”

McCartney then led a vigil of only 130 of Smith’s 2,500 students to complete her penance. After students spoke, “McCartney then suggested that the group remain holding hands ‘for about 10 minutes.’”

After leading the vigil, sophomore Maria Lopez seemed to absolve President McCartney. “She acknowledged her mistake,” Lopez said.

 

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PCU: College President Apologizes For Email Saying ‘All Lives Matter’
Posted By Derek Hunter On 10:43 PM 12/10/2014

In the town of Northampton, Mass., Smith College is known for its beautiful campus and its hostility toward those who refuse to toe the progressive line.

Smith President Kathleen McCartney wasn’t refusing to toe the line, she thought she was saying the right things when she wrote “All lives matter” in the subject line of a campus-wide email expressing solidarity with protesters upset over the grand jury decisions in New York and Ferguson. But intentions did not matter, McCartney was soon educated that, in fact, all lives do not matter, at least to the protesters.

The acceptable vernacular is “Black lives matter,” not all lives. McCartney sent a second email apologizing for her wrongheaded assumption.

One student replied to the first email by writing, “It minimizes the anti-blackness of this the current situation; yes, all lives matter, but not all lives are being targeted for police brutality.” Another, Smith sophomore Cecelia Lim was so upset by the subject line of McCartney’s original email, she said, “It felt like she was invalidating the experience of black lives.”

McCartney then led a vigil of only 130 of Smith’s 2,500 students to complete her penance. After students spoke, “McCartney then suggested that the group remain holding hands ‘for about 10 minutes.’”

After leading the vigil, sophomore Maria Lopez seemed to absolve President McCartney. “She acknowledged her mistake,” Lopez said.

[alicewonders]

Ask Planned Parenthood if all black lives matter.

 

[Fishrrman]

Back in my railroadin' days, a fellow worker (who lived in Northampton) referred to the place as "the strange town where women love women and men are unwanted."

And he was a liberal...

[mountaineer]

This really is the stupidest thing I've seen. Why didn't this nincompoop just say, "Why the hell are you pampered little snots offended by my email subject? Do you NOT believe all lives matter? If you don't, then shame on you. And  STFU."

[mountaineer]

After email controversy, Smith President Kathleen McCartney leads campus vigil over police killings of blacks

... The vigil on the lawn of Chapin House at 4:30 p.m. Monday was one of two responses by the Smith community announced Friday by McCartney. Also listed was praying in memory of Brown, Garner and Rice at the annual Christmas Vespers, at 4 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday at John M. Greene Hall.

At 4 p.m. Sunday, a group of about 50 students marched from the Campus Center to John M. Greene Hall, blocking traffic on Elm Street, chanting slogans such as “Hey, hey, ho, ho these racist cops have got to go,” and holding signs including “Black lives matter” and “No Happy Holidays.”

The 130 people at Monday’s vigil, which was planned last week by McCartney and Dean of the College Donna Lisker gathered in a circle and held hands. McCartney invited anyone who wanted to speak to do so. One student announced a service planned at the Helen Hills Hills Chapel at noon Wednesday, and another told the group the college is providing three buses to the Millions March, another protest against racial inequality, Saturday in New York City.

McCartney then suggested that the group remain holding hands “for about 10 minutes.”  ...

Of course she did. PC penance.

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[musiclady]

Ask Planned Parenthood if all black lives matter.

 

It's an absolute certainty that, to the left, all lives DON'T matter.

Just the ones they happen to like, for whatever reason they happen to like them.

[Bigun]

It's an absolute certainty that, to the left, all lives DON'T matter.

Just the ones they happen to like, for whatever reason they happen to like them.

 

[Charlespg]

like to see somebody comeout and say Law and Order and cop lives matter