My husband was a student at the University of Cincinnati in the late 60's and early 70's, and saw first hand how the leftist agitators descended on them and made it look like there was a student led protest. He went to one of the so-called "open" protests and got on stage to support the war and the troops and was forced to shut up and sit down.
They ended up shutting down the school because of the destruction of the leftist thugs.
Nothing has changed since then.....
Ever wonder how people who had
turned on, tuned in, and dropped out could afford to FLY all over the country to give speeches? That was the first rat I smelled in all that, aside from seeing the agitators first hand during the race riots in High School. They were ongoing (enough bad blood on both sides for peace to be unlikely) but had been stirred up by a guy running with Rap Brown, Stokely Carmichael, and Eldridge Cleaver, a guy who the FBI removed from school in handcuffs. That was some time after the rural folks I grew up around rejected the agitators and sent them packing, but the school was 25 miles closer to Washington D.C., and subject to more of that influence.
While the kids from where I lived (25 miles further south of D.C. didn't buy into the crap so much (only a couple), I saw the first vestiges of what it meant 'being black' in the middle of that school unrest, as a a lifelong black friend turned to me and said, "When I'm around them, I don't know you and you don't know me, and that's the way it's got to be."
I immediately understood that was a pact for mutual survival in the midst of chaos. It was a quick lesson on the serious implications of identity politics at ground level, even before "Identity Politics" was called that. Doubtless, many blacks in urban settings feel the still pressure to conform or be shunned (or worse) by their own community.
We had a lot of days off at the school for bomb threats, K-9 dogs and MD State Troopers walking the halls of a 1200 student school with only two doors not chained and locked shut. If there had ever been a disaster, it would have been made far worse by those policies.