Meanwhile, Alonda Thomas, vice president of Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, which has an enrollment of about 9,000 students, said, “The Blexit visit to FAMU during homecoming was canceled.”
Other HBCUs not respond to requests for comment about Blexit visits to their campuses.
A Blexit representative, who asked not to be quoted by name due to concerns about pushback, told RNS that those who have considered some of Kirk’s comments to be contentious in general or racist in particular are taking the TPUSA founder’s words out of context.
Kirk criticized the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed discriminatory practices in hiring and segregation in public places, and said the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was “awful” and “not a good person.”
“I feel like everybody has to get the whole message instead of listening to sound bites,” the Blexit representative said.
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