Day: September 2, 2017

Students at Ole Miss Traumatized by Banana Peel Thrown in Tree by Student Who Couldn’t Find Trash Can, Incident Deemed Racially Insensitive

Wendy Wilson

  A Greek life retreat for students at the University of Mississippi was cut short last weekend after three black students found a banana peel in a tree by a cabin, reports The Daily Mississippian, the student newspaper. The placement of the banana peel was considered an offense against African Americans even though a student said he threw the peel in the tree because he couldn’t find a garbage can. Breakfast options Saturday morning included a fruit cart with bananas. “Many members of our community were hurt, frightened, and upset by what occurred,” Alexa Lee Arndt, interim director of Fraternity and Sorority Life, wrote in a letter to campus chapter leaders that was obtained by the student newspaper. The discovery of the banana peel led to an emotional discussion at Camp Hopewell about race relations. “The massive discussion session wrapped up as more and more students stood and left the room – some in tears, some in frustration,” according to The Daily Mississippian. Students texted friends to come pick them up from the camp and the remainder of the retreat was canceled. “At that point, we didn’t feel welcome, we didn’t feel safe,” Makala McNeil, one of the students who found the peel, told…

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Tropical Storm Harvey Hits Tennessee

Wendy Wilson

  Hurricane Harvey barreled into Tennessee Thursday night as a tropical depression, causing road closures, power outages, flash flooding and tornado warnings, reports WSMV Channel 4. According to the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA), 18,000 people statewide are still without power. Initially, about 40,000 customers were without power. Twenty school systems closed across the state Friday, including Metro Nashville Public Schools. Although there were 20 tornado warnings across West and Middle Tennessee, there have not been any confirmed touchdowns. Some areas around Nashville received as much as 8.88 inches of rain with 24 hours, according to Nashville’s Office of Emergency Management. People living near a part of Whites Creek were asked to voluntarily evacuate. At least 15 homes near Dry Creek in Goodlettsville were also evacuated. There have been no reports of injuries, deaths or missing people, according to the Nashville Fire Department. Some additional bad weather was expected Friday. The Associated Press reported Thursday that a gas pipeline that fuels Tennessee would shut down because of Harvey. Georgia-based Colonial Pipeline said the closure was needed because of storm-related refinery shutdowns and Harvey’s effect on its facilities west of Lake Charles, Louisiana. The pipeline supplies nearly 40 percent of the South’s gasoline. Colonial…

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Abortion Is Weapon to Keep Blacks Under Control Says Commentator Kevin Jackson

Jason M. Reynolds

The battle over access to abortions is a battle of life and death. One black conservative activist also says it’s a battle against racism. Black Lives Matter, an activist group founded in 2012 and which says it protects black lives, lists a number of causes it stands for, from globalism to transgender affirming to black feminism. The website’s category for family advocacy lists “dismantling the patriarchal practice that requires mothers to work ‘double shifts’ that require them to mother in private even as they participate in justice work.” Nowhere does the lists of causes mention preventing the abortion of black babies. Political commentator Kevin Jackson, who is black, said he does not consider Black Lives Matter to be an actual group. Instead, it pretends at humanitarian efforts, said Jackson, who publishes TheBlackSphere.net blog. His site says he wants to “set the record straight on the destruction of the black community at the hand of the Democratic Party.” Jackson is a talk radio host on Salem Communications, author of such books as “Race Pimping: The Multi-Trillion Dollar Business of Liberalism” and a regular Fox News political commentator. The eugenics movement has always sought to “keep the population of blacks at what they call…

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Commentary: Don’t Let the Democrats Cover-Up Their Charlottesville Riot

Tennessee Star Staff

  by ConservativeHQ.com Staff   President Trump was right that there was violence from both sides during the Charlottesville riots. However, Virginia Democrats in control of the investigation and the fake news media are already whitewashing the violence of leftwing extremists. CHQ has run three articles connecting the dots between decisions made by Virginia’s Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe, Charlottesville’s Democratic Mayor Mike Signer, their staff and employees to the police stand-down that pushed the two violent factions together. In those articles, we called for an independent investigation of the Virginia and Charlottesville security decisions that led to the riot. Those decisions consciously created the environment for a riot to occur to advance the Democrats’ political narrative against Republicans and President Trump. Here are links to the articles: How And Why Virginia’s Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe Killed Three People In Charlottesville Charlottesville, Charlottesville, Charlottesville Was The Charlottesville Riot A Set-Up? After violent leftwing protestors called “Antifa” clashed with white supremacists in Charlottesville on August 12, President Trump has been widely criticized for saying the violence should be blamed on both sides. He’s even been called a racist for his remarks, even though his statements were accurate. Reports from the scene in…

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Hillary Clinton Sells ‘VIP’ Tickets for ‘What Happened’ Tour at Steep Price: ‘A New Level of Greed’

Tennessee Star Staff
Tennessee Star

Canadians who want “VIP” status during Hillary Clinton’s upcoming book tour for “What Happened” will need to have deep pockets. Mrs. Clinton’s forthcoming memoir about her failed presidential campaign is set to hit bookstore shelves on Sept. 12, but along with that will come a promotional tour through at least 15 cities. “VIP platinum” tickets for…

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Judge: FBI Must Disclose Hillary Clinton Email Probe Details

Tennessee Star Staff

A federal judge ordered the FBI Thursday to disclose more details about how it handled its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s secret email account. U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg said court papers describing the grand jury subpoenas the FBI obtained to compel information from Mrs. Clinton’s Internet service providers can be made public. In doing so,…

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Christian Ministry Sues Southern Poverty Law Center Over ‘Hate Group’ Label

Wendy Wilson

A Christian ministry in Florida is suing the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) over the SPLC’s designation of the ministry as a “hate group.” The Fort Lauderdale-based D. James Kennedy Ministries filed its suit Aug. 23 in an Alabama federal court, alleging the SPLC “trafficked in false and misleading descriptions” of the ministry, reports WORLD Magazine, The suit also names other entities alleged to have spread the libel. According to WORLD: Christian ministries that affirm the biblical view of marriage and human sexuality have earned the SPLC’s “hate group” designation, a designation repeated by many media outlets without question. Groups like D. James Kennedy Ministries, Alliance Defending Freedom, and the Family Research Council have demanded retractions and apologies to no avail. It would have cost the SPLC and three other entities named in the lawsuit nothing to apologize. But with no apology forthcoming and the ministry’s reputation sullied, D. James Kennedy Ministries now seeks restitution. However, Brad Dacus, president of the Christian legal group Pacific Justice Institute, is not optimistic about the suit. Dacus, whose organization is also on the hate group list, told WORLD that it’s hard to prove libel and that the SPLC’s “well-paid attorneys make sure what they say will hold up in…

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Homeland Security Announces Border Wall Prototype Finalists

Tennessee Star Staff

The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday the contractors that will build prototypes for President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall, jump-starting a process that has run into numerous delays over the last four months. Ron Vitiello, the acting deputy commissioner of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), said construction will begin in San Diego after CBP officials…

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Haslam’s Request to Relocate Nathan Bedford Forrest Statue Fails By 7-5 Vote At State Capitol Commission

Laura Baigert

NASHVILLE, Tennessee – At a meeting of the State Capitol Commission (SCC) held Friday, the first order of new business on the agenda was to address Governor Haslam’s request to relocate the Nathan Bedford Forrest Statue from the Capitol. The motion failed by a vote of 7 to 5, with all twelve members voting. Tennessee Code Annotated 4-8-301 established in 1986 that the SCC membership would consist of seven ex-officio members, two legislative members appointed by the speaker of each body, and three private citizens. The members and their respective votes are as follows: Larry Martin, SCC Chair / Commissioner, Finance & Administration – Yes Bob Oglesby, Commissioner, General Services – Yes Bob Martineau, Commissioner, Environment & Conservation – Yes Tre Hargett, Secretary of State – No David Lillard, State Treasurer – No Justin Wilson, Comptroller of the Treasury – No Reavis Mitchell, Chair, TN Historical Commission – Yes State Senator Jack Johnson – No State Representative Curtis Johnson – No Howard Gentry, Jr., Private Citizen – Yes Tammy White, Private Citizen – No King Rogers, Private Citizen – No The SCC meets on an as-needed basis, with just one other meeting in 2017 during the month of May, two…

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