Bomb Threats Made To Historically Black School Across U.S.

[marindem01]

WOODSTOCK, Ga. (AP) — At least a half-dozen historically Black universities in five states and the District of Columbia were responding to bomb threats Monday, with many of them locking down their campuses for a time.

https://apnews.com/article/louisiana-ed ... de5bbc88d8

Both the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are investigating, the agencies said in separate statements.

In Georgia, Albany State University warned students and faculty on social media that “a bomb threat has been issued to Albany State University’s academic buildings".

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Glenn is ranting BLM in Canada purchasing a former headquarters of Canadian Communist Party....

[carmenjonze]

This happened earlier in January, too, right before Jan. 6th. I have friends who teach at these schools.

[Libertas]

This happened earlier in January, too, right before Jan. 6th. I have friends who teach at these schools.

I believe DOJ and Garland are not investigating trump (dear GOD do I want to be wrong) and that they think if they did, and worse, if they indicted him, nationwide violence would occur. That this is the reason they are not.

It is NOT a good reason, if that is the case.

I have this friend who constantly tells me the traitor is going to prison either for insurrection or tax evasion or from any of the fraud crimes trump is being investigated for.

He said that a year ago and that it was coming soon. Again 6 months ago, coming any day now. In December he assured me by the end of January indictments would happen. Now he tells me this is the biggest case in history so it takes time.

Sorry, friend, but we dont even know if DOJ is investigating him AT ALL! And now traitor and his supporters on this board are openly threatening the DA and AG who are investigating him. By defending him at all, by voting for any GOP, you are BY DEFINITION supporting any crime trump commits and are as guilty. PERIOD

[carmenjonze]

These schools are getting multiple bomb threats disrupting their campuses, and meanwhile John Aravosis is freaking out about acronyms.

He uses them in his own Twitter bio, but okay.

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John Aravosis Flag of United StatesFlag of GreeceRainbow flag
@aravosis
Replying to
@Phil_Lewis_

I’m a big fan of not using acronyms and abbreviations. I only learned what HBCUs were a few years ago, and I do this stuff for a living. Same issue with AAPI, they use it all the time and don’t tell people they actually means Asians. I only learned that term a year ago.

https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/1488178382919671811

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So, HE is just now learning about these terms that have been around for decades. So they shouldn't be used by anyone. So tired of MLK white moderates.

[carmenjonze]

Howard University
@HowardU

As the premier university, we would be remiss if we didn't start the month highlighting Thurgood Marshall (L.L.B. '33), Charles Hamilton Houston, & then dean of the School of Law James Nabrit Jr. on the steps of the Supreme Court.
after Brown vs. Board of Education decision



https://twitter.com/HowardU/status/1488576666083409920

[Motor City]

https://twitter.com/RevDrBarber/status/ ... 3552711689

Something is really wrong in America when Nazis are marching openly in Florida, synagogues are being attacked, and HBCUs are facing bomb threats, just to name a few things. If they’re cynical enough to be together, we must be smart enough to come together. #ForwardTogether

See the hate amassing, to counter that Love, take another's best interest as your own.

[Number6]

The bomb threats shows how much damage and disruption a small group of people can do with a phone. I hope the police and/or FBI catches these people and if they're found guilty they get the maximum penalties.

[ZoWie]

My understanding is that the threats have been going on for weeks if not months, and the number of schools threatened is up to something like 22, all HBCUs.

And of course yesterday they closed UCLA and the U of Colorado at Boulder because of that whacko who was posting hundreds of videos in which he threatened to shoot up both schools, plus a bunch of other places. You know, he's the one that the UCLA philosophy department suspended for sending a porno video to a female student. The Boulder SWAT team surrounded and caught same, turned out that he was so crazy that he'd gotten onto the official whacko list, and even Colorado wouldn't let him buy a handgun.

My point is that threatening violence over the Internet seems to be a Thing now. It does indeed show that a cell phone is the scariest weapon of all, when enabled by social media.

You should see LA. There are all manner of spooky aircraft doing grid surveillance passes all over the city for the past two days. Some registrations come back to stuff we don't talk about online. Related to the threats? I sure don't know, nor do I want to.

[Libertas]

I have been saying for YEARS that if they could, if maga could, if trump could, and this is MILLIONS of Americans, TODAY they would jail or deport or KILL all who dont agree with them.

[ZoWie]

I decided the aircraft surveillance is Super Bowl counter-terrorism. It's the most sensible explanation, given who's doing it and what they seem to be doing. There are reports going around the Nooz that such operations are indeed taking place.

All well and good, but I suspect that when the camera pans across the well-heeled crowd in a week and a half, not a soul will be wearing the legally mandated mask, even after they finish their lousy food and expensive beer. We'll be safe from terrorists and a dumb little virus will do people in because, in the aggregate, humans are stupid.

Now we can go back to discussing threats against HBCUs and schools in general. They are definitely getting out of hand.

[carmenjonze]

I decided the aircraft surveillance is Super Bowl counter-terrorism. It's the most sensible explanation, given who's doing it and what they seem to be doing. There are reports going around the Nooz that such operations are indeed taking place.

All well and good, but I suspect that when the camera pans across the well-heeled crowd in a week and a half, not a soul will be wearing the legally mandated mask, even after they finish their lousy food and expensive beer. We'll be safe from terrorists and a dumb little virus will do people in because, in the aggregate, humans are stupid.

Depends on which humans you're talking about.

Some of us are distinctively not stupid and have been talking about this forever. In the present day, since at least the Obama campaign and before that the 9/11 conspiracy theorism.

These attacks are not removed from the antisemitic attacks on synagogues by whackodoodle Muslims and whackodoodle conservative whites, and attacks on Maus by the latter. The two are two wings on the bird.

These conditions will change the minute mainstream US starts to take what we have been telling people about taking white supremacist violence as seriously as a balloon payment on a mortgage or how some retirement fund is doing. Consequently, I do not expect these conditions to ever change in my lifetime.

[ZoWie]

Sadly, you're probably right. It just doesn't seem to be a high priority.

The stupid humans I was referring to, though, are the ones that don't wear masks when the bozo 8 inches away is screaming Go Team for hours at a stretch and spraying a 10 foot radius with various types of aerosolized agents.

But the two groups of people do overlap quite a bit.

[ZoWie]

Last add on the mystery helicopters -- seems I am right. Nuclear counter-terrorism.

For once the people on the Internet were right about something. I was afraid to quote them.

Twitter:

CBS News Los Angeles @CBSLA
WHY IS THAT HELICOPTER CIRCLING? The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration is measuring radiation in Los Angeles ahead of the #SuperBowl on Feb. 13.

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Now back to wondering why the real terrorists among us only get encouragement.

[carmenjonze]

FBI identifies 6 juveniles as persons of interest in bomb threats at Black colleges - NBC News

The minors appear to be using sophisticated methods to disguise the source of the threats, which seem to have a racist motivation, a law enforcement official says.

Six "tech savvy" juveniles have been identified as persons of interest by the FBI in threats to historically Black colleges and universities that appear to be racially motivated.

They appear to be racially motivated. Imagine my shock.

[carmenjonze]

Violence Isn’t New for Black People Trying to Get an Education - Capibal B News

After bomb threats at HBCUs nationwide, professors discuss past and present dangers.

Considering the integral role students at HBCUs played during the civil rights era, it makes the threat of a bomb even more alarming. At the Atlanta University Center in the 1960s, the Atlanta Student Movement marched, boycotted and conducted sit-ins to express frustration at the city’s slow pace of integration.

The tradition of activism continued during the Black Lives Matter movement, with groups like AUC Shut it Down, who protested former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s arrival at Clark Atlanta University in 2015 during her second run for president. The group demanded Clinton address the concerns of the Black Lives Matter movement, saying she had previously failed to do so adequately.

As more Black students choose HBCUs over predominantly white institutions, Brown wonders if the latest developments will deter them from doing so in the future.

“Fear of violence, I think, does make people self-regulate,” Brown said. “‘OK, so maybe I won’t vote. OK, so maybe I won’t try to go to this institution. Or another, because I won’t be welcomed there. And maybe it’s extremely dangerous for me.’”

Unlikely. PWI institutions are another form of "exremely dangerous."

But violence is nothing new for students at HBCUs who are trying to get an education. In 1970 at Jackson State University in Mississippi, one of the schools recently threatened, two Black people were shot by white police officers. It happened in the wake of protests on May 14, 1970, as students were protesting the Nixon administration’s extension of the Vietnam War into Cambodia. After falsely claiming they saw a sniper, police opened fire, killing pre-law major Phillip Lafayette Gibbs, high school student James Earl Green, and injuring nearly a dozen more.

[ZoWie]

Jackson State is still part of that sorry year's wretched history wherever it's taught. The killing happened right around the time that the Ohio National Guard did something similar to four white students in Kent. Maybe it didn't get the same play in the Nooz due to racism in media. Wouldn't surprise me.

The way it got remembered around here is that the power structure responded to an escalation of an unpopular war by killing six students. Four white ones in Kent and two Black ones at Jackson. For at least a decade afterwards, the slogan was, "They shoot students, don't they?" It became about silencing dissent in general with lethal force, and the dehumanization of all dissenters preliminary to the usual people who now want to kill anyone who thinks drumpf shouldn't be fuhrer for life.

[carmenjonze]

Bend the Arc: Jewish Action
@jewishaction

Dunbar High School is being evacuated again today — just one day after being targeted by a bomb threat, forcing students & Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff to evacuate a Black History Month event.

Dunbar was the first public high school for Black students in the U.S. Remember this.

https://twitter.com/jewishaction/status ... 3699245056

[Libertas]

Bend the Arc: Jewish Action
@jewishaction

Dunbar High School is being evacuated again today — just one day after being targeted by a bomb threat, forcing students & Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff to evacuate a Black History Month event.

Dunbar was the first public high school for Black students in the U.S. Remember this.

https://twitter.com/jewishaction/status ... 3699245056

Of course. It will escalate daily until this mad house explodes.

[ZoWie]

There is a certain affinity to what the right used to call "white backlash." They were for it.

Explodes or, just as likely, melts into a general state of chaos and eventually finds some kind of temporary equilibrium that can't be predicted yet. The two most possible outcomes are that fatigue sets in or that some kind of resultant catastrophe focuses attention somewhere else.

[carmenjonze]

There is a certain affinity to what the right used to call "white backlash." They were for it.

Explodes or, just as likely, melts into a general state of chaos and eventually finds some kind of temporary equilibrium that can't be predicted yet. The two most possible outcomes are that fatigue sets in or that some kind of resultant catastrophe focuses attention somewhere else.

Them and most USian whites imo are ignoring the thing that animates these bigots, the most: we're not afraid of them.

When the targets of repression are not afraid of the supremacists to the point that they can no longer deny it, that's an existential crisis for them and all the people who rely on them to get special rights for whites.