Princeton professor calls Trump ‘a racist, sexist meglomaniac’ during commencement speech at Hampshire College
Princeton University professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor delivered a 20 minute commencement speech May 20 at Hampshire College in Massachusetts
She said: ‘The president of the United States, the most powerful politician in the world, is a racist, sexist megalomaniac’
Taylor also said Trump ’empowered an attorney general who embraces and promulgates policies that have already proven to have had a devastating impact on black families and communities’
By REGINA F. GRAHAM
DAILYMAIL.COM
29 May 2017
A Princeton University professor giving a commencement speech at Hampshire College in Massachusetts accused President Donald Trump of being a ‘racist, sexist megalomaniac’.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, who is an assistant professor in African American studies at Princeton, delivered a roughly 20 minute speech to the graduating class of 300 students at the private liberal arts college on May 20.
‘The president of the United States, the most powerful politician in the world, is a racist, sexist megalomaniac,’ Taylor said roughly two minutes into her speech.
‘It’s not a benign observation, but has meant tragic consequences for many people in our country – from terror-inducing raids in the communities of undocumented immigrants to his disparaging of refugees in search of freedom and respite.’
Taylor, who is the author of ‘From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation’, suggested that political activism is the reason why the federal court has struck down Trump’s executive orders that restrict immigration from several Muslim-majority countries.
‘When Trump’s first illegal Muslim travel ban was attempted, thousands of ordinary people flooded the airports around this country,’ she said.
‘And because of those protests, and the defiance they represented, that ban was stopped – not once, but twice.
‘It is not enough just to be outraged. Injustice has to actually be defied.’
During her speech, she also stated that ‘the status quo is increasingly intolerable’.
‘The political and economic status quo in this country has failed over and over again to deliver a better way to the vast majority of people in this country,’ Taylor stated.
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