This post was submitted as a letter to the editor.

Last week a Hardin-Simmons University Student made a TikTok video, showing the media and culture’s outrage over a handle of shockingly few white-on-black crimes and apathy towards black-on-white violence. After her video went viral, sparking condemnation from the mob, the small, private Baptist school she attended was rumored to have ruthlessly expelled her for her “thoughtcrime.”

In the wake of the viral frenzy, the small Baptist school based in Abilene, TX, tweeted out its condemnation.

HSU became aware late this evening of a deeply disappointing and unacceptable social media post by one of our students. The message shared by this student is not reflective of the Christian values of our institution. We are actively investigating and taking decisive action.

— Hardin-Simmons University (@HSUTX) June 24, 2020

Days later the President of the University Eric Bruntmyer strongly implied the student was expelled in a cringe-inducing video , which opened with the statement, “First and foremost at Hardin-Simmons University, we affirm to the God-ordained truth that Black Lives Matter.”

 

Bruntmeyer awkwardly tried to tie his radical pro-Black Lives Matter to the university’s founder, Rev. James B. Simmons. A tactic that has backfired, big-league, as you will find out below.

“As I recently wrote in my Juneteenth message to you, a unique part of our University’s proud history is that Dr. James B Simmons fervent faith led him to dedicate his life to the abolition of slavery, to create opportunities for education for all people. Dr. Simmons spoke boldly against slavery and took action to change his world we’re now charged with carrying on Dr. Simmons legacy.”

But it turns out that, while Simmons was an abolitionist, he founded Hardin-Simmons University as an all-white school.

According to Robert MacArthur’s glowing 1911 biography, “A Foundation Builder: Sketches in the Life of Rev. James B. Simmons,” Simmons createc many schools for freed African Americans after the Civil War, but the school that later became Hardin-Simmons University was devoted, by Simmons, to white people.

A Northern man, a strong opponent of slavery, and one who had given so much of his time to aid the negroes in education, Dr. Simmons now gave his means to found a college for white people, in one of the old slave states.

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Dr.  [O.C.]  Pope [superintendent of the Church Edifice Department of the American Baptist Home Mission Society] was well acquainted with Dr. Simmons, and knew that while he had worked so vigorously to establish seven colleges for freedmen in the South, that he was equally willing to aid in establishing a college for white people where one was needed. Dr. Pope handed him Rev. G. W. Smith’s letter, and gave him some information concerning Abilene and the country surrounding it. Dr. Simmons said, “Tell Brother Smith to write to me concerning the enterprise.” This was done, and a correspondence followed which resulted in awakening great interest in Dr. Simmons for the baby college to be located in such a magnificent section of country. [MacArthur]

How awkward.

Hardin-Simmons University did not admit African Americans until the 1960s. ‘Woke’ President Bruntmyer ought to change the name of his school if he really wants to live up to the impossible standards set by the anti-Christian, anti-racist left.

Bruntmeyer did try to claim that the student has a right to free speech on campus. However, her free speech rights appear to have been negated because, “within the HSU community, that right is always linked with a responsibility as Christians, as well as an inherent responsibility in the consequences of our words and our actions.” The school “began a required disciplinary process” and the student is “no longer enrolled at Hardin-Simmons University,” proving that the HSU free speech policy is nothing more than meaningless words on a paper.

We do not believe that James B. Simmons was a “racist terrible white man who should be cancelled.” But, according to the standards of today’s Cultural Kommissars, pretty much all white men in this country before 1960 were “racists.” Any attempts to retrofit Christianity around “anti-racism” will only add more fuel to the raging anti-Christ, anti-civilizational, anti-white, and anti-middle-class wildfire that is currently sweeping through the country.

A growing chorus of men from all around the world have awaken to this fact and are now roundly denouncing the Black Lives Matter movement as a threat to Christianity and civilization itself.

A South African cardinal has denounced the hijacking of Black Lives Matter (BLM), which is now “committed to dismantling the very values, structure and institutions” central to a healthy society.

Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier, the archbishop of Durban, South Africa, tweeted this weekend that a brief study of the founding statement of Black Lives Matter “indicates the movement is being hijacked by the interests and parties committed to dismantling the very values, structure and institutions which have over the centuries undergird the best civilisations and cultures!”

In his critique, Napier has joined a growing group of Christian and black leaders who have denounced BLM for its renunciation of the nuclear family and total embrace of the LGBT agenda, including the banishment of “heteronormativity” and the espousal of “queer culture.” [Breitbart]

It is time for Christians, and all men of good faith, to stop kneeling to the mob. Stop throwing our own to the wolves, and prepare to sacrifice everything to defend our Faith, our nation, and our neighbors.

Revolver Note:

It is completely unacceptable for universities to persecute and publicly attempt to shame their own students for political expression. In any case it goes against everything a university should stand for—in the case of public institutions, such craven remarks by university administrators may violate a students’ constitutional rights.

In all cases, students should not put up with such abuses and should consider taking legal action against universities where appropriate.