Maryland University Holds Lecture on How “White People are a Plague to the Planet”
But
not to be
misunderstood to be the state's flagship
University of Maryland, in College Park (inside D.C. Beltway I-495), contrary to what might be inferred from the headline.
DC Clothesline reported:
Towson University is a public university located in Towson, Baltimore County, Maryland. Founded in 1866 as Maryland’s first training school for teachers, Towson still produces the most teachers of any university in the state.
With 21,950 students enrolled (Fall 2013), it has the
most total of all majors--by far--at any
public college in northern Maryland.
Hypeline reports, May 13, 2016, that it received information from a former Towson University “SGA member”
Almost certainly a reference to a "
Student Government Association", which can face university-administration attitudes ranging from enthusiastic facilitation to grudging toleration.
[...] that a student presentation, “The historical ties between homophobia in communities of color and colonization,” claimed that “white people are a plague to the planet”.  [...] a black male student [...] making the racist and hateful presentation [....]
If the presentation had said black people or Jєωιѕн people or Asian people or illegal immigrants or refugees or Muslims or ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖs or transgenders are “a plague to the planet,” the news would be all over the MSM, with cries of “RACISM!” and “HATE SPEECH!”.
Of
course it would.
Towson University in Maryland was founded by White People.
Or at least not
necessarily black. It was originally Maryland
State Normal School, i.e.: a school for training teachers. The man identified as "McFadden Alexander Newell [who] served as the school's first principal"
- certainly looks white (altho' people with a nontrivial fraction of black ancestry, who might've been counted in the 19th & early-20th centuries as colored under the laws of various states, can have pale skin without even a tinge of brown, especially as they progress into elder years).
A reader even somewhat familiar with the public colleges & universities in Maryland might reasonably have assumed from the headline that such a presentation would've been made at Towson U.'s "cross-town rival": Morgan State U., in urban Baltimore, with 7,698 students (Fall 2014). Founded in 1869 as the Centenary Biblical Institute, to train men to be protestant ministers, it's counted among the Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCU) in the U.S.A. A private institution for 70 years, what had developed into Morgan College became a public college in 1939, being purchased by the State of Maryland specifically for blacks, thus renamed Morgan State College.
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Note *: The school's highest-ranking job-title at the time (1866--____); "normal" was reportedly French terminology for such an institution. Per Wikipedia, which is probably safe to fill in gaps in my knowledge of a college, from which I lived only 40 miles away for 1½ years. The university is named for the
unincorporated place which is the (county) seat of Baltimore County (an oddity to U.S. sensibilities, because it's legally completely separate from the City of Baltimore that it surrounds on 3 sides); the university is not named for either of the Towson brothers for whom the place is named.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towson_University>, <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towson,_Maryland>.
Note #: Named for Reverend Lyttleton Morgan. <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_State_University>.
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