Critical Mass

Updated on Friday, October 6, 2006 at 05:23PM by Cody Beckman

I am speaking, of course, of the recent debacle at Columbia University in New York, where protestors from the Chicano Caucus of Columbia University, the student chapter of the International Socialist Organization, and the Act Now to Stop War & End Racism ( ANSWER ) Coalition broke up the planned appearances by Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, and fellow Minutemen Marvin Stewart and Jerome Corsi. Mr. Stewart, an ordained minister, began the speeches, but was shouted down by students from Columbia and other New York schools, who called Stewart, in his own words, “[t]he N-word, sell-out, you name it.” The Columbia Spectator reports “Audience members shouted interjections throughout his address, calling Stewart, who is black, a hypocrite for supporting the Minutemen. Stewart responded by becoming louder and telling the audience that they did not know anything about government.” (Video of the protest available via the Spectator's website, or found here.)

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