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Todd's Daily Dispatch: 'Graham Cracker' Offensive?
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TCU student told to cover up his racially offensive campaign posters.
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- Date Nov 9, 2011
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It's the -- cracker Graham cracker is racially offensive.
Well yes that's right Texas Christian University home of the horned frogs and that's the and that.
It's -- to have already frogs the Nvidia but Nvidia's but -- it but you can't have Graham crackers there's a guy by the name Graham McMillan a really nice college student for forty years old.
Political science major running for the student government.
And as ever since he was a kid when he would introduce himself to someone he said hi my name is Graham like the cracker.
So he decided to put his campaign signs.
The vote for Graham cracker McMillan that's -- -- Graham McMillan.
And he put these great signs around campus professionally done and he got called in to the to the office.
And the administrator said.
You can't do this this is racially offensive you cannot put these signs up on campus there's a place that you got a choice you can either take down the science or you can.
Tape over the the offensive -- -- it was it racially things.
Well I I don't I don't understand and so me I'm sorry some parts of the south to speak to me like I'm sick I -- according.
Yeah I got collateral related don't want yeah I don't I can't understand a little bit.
Cracker I don't get it yet it's the cracker Porter Graham crackers with a -- exactly right.
Yeah everybody's in a word Mac -- -- yeah.
I -- yeah.
There is.
-- I don't -- And we're talking about university people here okay did -- The universe I actually got a statement from U -- you guys got to hear this this -- They say that's that's they confirmed that the offensive word is in fact cracker.
And they they said that they believed this was quote this can be used as a teaching moment to help Graham understand that that word cracker with his name.
Could be perceived as derogatory my -- That's stupid.
You know what I did I put them alive ferret out.
It's like almost anything can have some -- and I think Melissa is the white guy from the south of this thing people.
It's okay but -- that's something we have heard all the time.
He called a crack at relatively slow so what are the candidates and -- -- that's what what etiquette.
It's -- his last name wasn't home for something backing twelve okay you.
You know well.
And it doesn't I had more than one I have no idea what you're doing a lot of homeowners aren't that adds an accountant -- posters -- they don't bring anything in return I mean.
Yeah I mean hey he paid it was he got sixty posters of the professional we got pictures and posters it's unbelievable.
And that he had a tape over the but he said the funniest thing I talked to I talked to all great amenities of the funniest thing is.
He's running unopposed or office wow so what's a good -- -- first name is Graham.
Yeah has had given him sooner or part of the other I get.
His friend suggested he should remain so Teddy grants that would be perfect view of the telegram's you know -- the little tiny grain cracker.
I know I'm killing a four year old many animals in the united -- yeah.
OK every gallon of -- person down a flight of stairs by Occupy Wall Street protesters allegedly.
Speaks exclusively.
To you what did you ask this woman outside of the obvious what happened well it's not allegedly.
We we have video of -- it was that they had video cameras someone she was shooting the of the melee outside of this hotel in Washington DC this happened over the weekend at and Americans suffer prosperity foundation -- Reagan tribute dinner.
They were attempting to leave the the building win.
Occupy Wall Street protesters surrounded the building locked arms and refused to let any of the other participants out of the building.
And -- knew this was going on because on number of people that are that follow me on Twitter were actually tweeting about this inside the building.
This woman 78 years old she is a retired schoolteacher living on a pension from Detroit Michigan drove a road eleven hours on -- bus they got there.
The 78 year old woman was in fact pushed down these concrete stairs.
Sheer bloody nose here she was banged up pretty good -- -- the facts are indisputable in terms of -- In theory yeah they met someone tried to push it yeah -- -- was an accident -- -- there well yeah sure you know I think in the -- of the pushing and the shoving him because the police were there are trying to extort these people -- and then somebody just reached out and shop there and she went flying.
But but the and as a result of this and another and several other incidents the the chief of police in Washington DC says.
That this is stopped being a peaceful protest now.
They're going to get topple these protesters.
And as you can see in my piece I I outlined some of the -- some of the instances of violence from coast to coast that that you've been experiencing here.
As a result of this occupied move and this includes the police finalists and just put -- -- -- but they don't said that I think the other part of that is the occupiers are saying it's not us don't blame -- of violence happens at our events because the people committing the violence are part of.
The Miami.
-- -- -- the area lower Manhattan it's not a violent -- note within that they have had some instances of people.
Infiltrated a press -- -- this -- all sorts of gathering to suspect in the sixties when they were marching against -- -- -- There you'll see people kind of -- themselves and because they fear what -- and -- a -- they won't notice the rest of us who were crazier.
-- the unfortunate part is stuff can happen.
Well it certainly can't and and we'll have to see how this all shakes out she's OK she's back home that it takes some time to recover.
-- Centre stay in Hollywood this top stars dot com by the way take you Fox News radio you can get the rest of the story and I click on the previous stories -- I just love to see when he got going on.