As a college student,
the now Attorney General
Eric Holder
participated in the
Armed Takeover
of the Columbia University
ROTC office
Future U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is seen in the 1973 yearbook of Columbia University in New York City. He graduated from the Ivy League school that year. (Image courtesy of "University Archives, Columbia University in the City of New York.
Barack Obama Appointed and Continues to support and affirm this Radical Racist who was a leader in an armed takeover at Columbia University.
The only way the president and the mainstream media missed this type of anti-American activity is that they apparently support it and deliberately ignore it. Is it now any wonder why Holder chose not to prosecute the Black Panther thugs at the voting booths?
As a freshman at Columbia University in 1970, future
Attorney General Eric Holder participated in a five-day occupation of an
abandoned Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) headquarters with a group
of black students later described by the university’s Black Students’
Organization as “armed,” The Daily Caller has learned.
Department of Justice spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler has not
responded to questions from The Daily Caller about whether Holder himself was
armed — and if so, with what sort of weapon.
Holder was then among the leaders of the Student
Afro-American Society (SAAS), which demanded that the former ROTC office be
renamed the “Malcolm X Lounge.” The change, the group insisted, was to be made
“in honor of a man who recognized the importance of territory as a basis for
nationhood.”
Black radicals from the same group also occupied the office
of Dean of Freshman Henry Coleman until their demands were met. Holder has
publicly acknowledged being a part of that action.
The details of the student-led occupation, including the
claim that the raiders were “armed,” come from a deleted Web page of the Black
Students’ Organization (BSO) at Columbia, a successor group to the SAAS.
Contemporary newspaper accounts in The Columbia Daily Spectator, a student
newspaper, did not mention weapons.
Holder, now the United States’ highest-ranking law
enforcement official, has given conflicting accounts of this episode during
college commencement addresses at Columbia, but both the BSO’s website and the
Daily Spectator have published facts that conflict with his version of events.
Holder has bragged about his involvement in the “rise of
black consciousness” protests at Columbia.
“I was among a large group of students who felt strongly
about the way we thought the world should be, and we weren’t afraid to make our
opinions heard,” he said during Columbia’s 2009 commencement exercises. “I did
not take a final exam until my junior year at Columbia — we were on strike
every time finals seemed to roll around — but we ran out of issues by that
third year.”
Though then-Dean Carl Hovde declared the occupation of the
Naval ROTC office illegal and said it violated university policy, the college
declined to prosecute any of the students involved. This decision may have been
made to avoid a repeat of violent Columbia campus confrontations between police
and members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in 1968.
The ROTC headquarters was ultimately renamed the Malcolm X
lounge as the SAAS organization demanded. It later became a hang-out spot for
another future U.S. leader, Barack Obama, according to David Maraniss’
best-selling ”Barack Obama: The Story.”
Holder told Columbia University’s graduating law students
during a 2010 commencement speech that the 1970 incident happened “during my
senior year,” but Holder was a freshman at the time. “Several of us took one
of our concerns — that black students needed a designated space to gather on
campus — to the Dean [of Freshmen office. This being Columbia, we proceeded to
occupy that office.”
Holder also claimed in his 2009 speech that he and his
fellow students decided to “peacefully occupy one of the campus offices.” In
contrast, the BSO’s website recounted its predecessor organization’s activities
by noting that “in 1970, a group of armed black students (the SAAS) seized
the abandoned ROTC office.”
While that website is no longer online, a snapshot of its
content from September 2010 is part of the archive.org database.
In a December 2010 GQ magazine profile of Holder, one of his
Columbia friends confirmed that he and Holder were both part of the ROTC office
takeover.
Holder particularly “connected with four other African-American
students” at Columbia, correspondent Wil S. Hylton wrote. “We took over the
ROTC lounge in Hartley Hall and created the Malcolm X Lounge,” said a laughing
Steve Sims, one of those students.
Hylton described Sims as “the attorney general’s closest friend”
and “a man Holder describes as his ‘consigliere.’”
By Charles C. Johnson and Ryan Girdusky The Daily Caller 09/30/2012
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