I did not "wage a campaign to rename Confederate Memorial Hall." I wrote an essay in the Nashville newspaper stating that a relatively new, taxpayer-funded statue of the man commonly referred to as the founder of the Ku Klux Klan (as the Nashville Banner newspaper described him), who was a slave trader before the Civil War and who massacred black women and children during the Civil War, should be removed.
This Klan statue had nothing to do with Vanderbilt University and was miles away from the campus. The essay had nothing to do with my job as a professor at Vanderbilt University. The essay had nothing to do with the controversy at Vanderbilt over renaming "Confederate Memorial Hall"---the decision to do which was made presumably by the head of Vanderbilt, Gordon Gee, and the Trustees---except insofar as both were monuments to Confederates. The student government of this predominantly white university voted to support the name change, and the Black Student Alliance of perhaps a few hundred students certainly waged a campaign to support the name change, led by Candace Chatham <cchatham@stockamp.org> and Nia Toomer. I did support this campaign, but only at the explicit request of Candace Chatham and Nia Toomer.
Incidentally, Nia Toomer received the racist threat below immediately after Tim Chavez, the right-wing columnist with whom you conspired, published her name in the "Tennessean" newspaper, deliberately to "punish" her, as he openly admitted.
You and your allies attempted to brand my essay as being part of the Confederate Memorial Hall case in order to justify dragging me into the lawsuit the United Daughters of the Confederacy filed against Vanderbilt University, which they had filed two months before I wrote my essay. You also do it because, even in your state of moral depravity, you recognize that the statue of the founder of the Ku Klux Klan is less defensible than the name "Confederate Memorial Hall," so you want to switch the topic of discussion. (Your best defense of the Klan statue is, "Well, he really wasn't the *founder* of the KKK, he was just the Grand Hobgoblin, and he didn't kill *that many* women and children.")
The reference to the Che Guevara banner, besides being idiotic---as that picture is one of the most widely reproduced images in history---is 1950's McCarthyism. In fact, that banner is so popular, it's packaged and sold in France, where I bought it, like GI Joe toys. In the same sentence where I once wrote that Guevara was a hero, I also called Jesus, Hannibal, and Frantz Fanon heroes. (All four still are.) Try whipping up some hysteria over the fact that I consider Jesus a hero.
You did not "report" on the controversy: your article was dishonest. You write of my "complaining" of threats, when those threats were reported to the newspaper and to the police, which investigated them. Indeed, the head of Vanderbilt University, Gordon Gee, was also threatened with death by your allies, as was reported by the police and the newspaper.
The man Tim Chavez quoted made his comment one month *before* I wrote my essay, as a response to the press release by the national---not the local---Green Party supporting Vanderbilt and reparations for slavery. Of course, it disturbs your narrative to point out how a white organization, which received 3,000,000 votes in the previous election, and which is more mainstream than the neo-Confederate pro-Klan movement you represent, might be against you.
I "posted" no email replies. You say that to skirt around the illegalities of publishing private emails I may or may not have written. I would be interested to see any proof that I wrote the statements about "good" and "evil" that you quote. More shoddy "reporting."
Nevertheless, I agree with those comments: It is unclear why it is scandalous to talk about forming armies to fight racist terrorists who send death threats against both blacks and whites, when those same terrorist groups, such as Sons of Confederate Veterans, are openly organized into military battalions.
My essay---all of which I still support---is not the issue. Your defense of the slaughter, rape and torture of millions of innocent women and children is the issue. Where you claim I said Confederates "should" have been executed (they should have, but that is not what I wrote) for treason and crimes against humanity, provide proof that treason is not a capital offence---even according to Confederate law: You neo-Confederate Klan supporters never bother to point out that the summary execution of black Union soldiers was the law of the Confederacy. Not a hypothetical situation, but something the Klan founder, whose statue several black lawmakers objected to (not just one Jonathan Farley), actually did.
Again, it does not fit your narrative to point out how there were many, many people who objected to the Klan statue. It does not fit your narrative to point out how the Vanderbilt Black Student Alliance declared, "[W]e support everything that Dr. Jonathan Farley wrote" ---and not just blacks. In fact, I defy you to find even a Republican national politician who will openly support the Klan statue after hearing of the objections to it.
But you neo-Confederate Klan supporters have never used rational argument to win. You use libel, intimidation, and threats of violence in an organized, coordinated effort to attain a political objective. This is the definition of terrorism:
Soon after receiving the racist threat below from one of your allies, Vanderbilt black student leader Nia Toomer stopped advocating for the Vanderbilt building's name-change, as did Candace Chatham.
Several times, you have issued scarcely-veiled physical threats (as in your post, "Pistols at dawn"; "he'll get his in turn," with a supporter adding, "Aim for the kneecaps"). So one last point, that concerns the Robert Stacy McCain clan particularly:
I'm very patient. I have a long memory. I have a Greek sense of justice.
Hey, aids infested nigger bitch!!! When you send someone an e-mail calling them ignorant, be sure you do not show your ignorance as well, smelly jigaboo!!! The war between your ears ended in 1865, not 1869, as you told that spic Chavez. You have about as much sense as that "communist nigger" Farley. (Damn, I am still laughing about that!!!) As far as your feelings about the right side winning, I have a piece of advice for you, ignorant nigger whore. Go and see the movie "Gangs of New York". It is one of my favorite movies. Niggers are lynched and burned. People call Abraham Lincoln (who was a White Supremacist) a nigger-lover intent on destroying the White race. Racism is rampant. There is a lot of Confederate sympathy. Oh, did I mention that the movie, extremely factual and historically accurate, takes place in NEW YORK CITY??? Go and see it, if you dare to experience some TRUTH, instead of the lies you spew out of your smelly, cavity infested mouth!!! Lick my toilet bowl's insides clean!!! Black power, under your arms!!! Nigger.