Richard Spencer (Wikipedia photo)
Richard Spencer (Wikipedia photo)
Clarification: Tuesday, 1:25 p.m. -- Kyle Bristow’s group at Michigan State University was never a chartered Young Americans for Freedom chapter, and used our name without authorization. YAF had a review process that this group at Michigan State University never applied for or went through. Bristow apparently never believed YAF's policies, which included treating all individuals equally without reference to racial preferences. YAF prohibits racists and always has done so.
YAF is the organization founded by Bill Buckley and guided by Ronald Reagan. We’ve never been an institution that welcomed or had room for a George Lincoln Rockwell, George Wallace, or Richard Spencer.
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Reported Sunday
White nationalists, no matter how hateful and distasteful their rhetoric is, also have constitutional rights.
The organizer of white supremacist Richard Spencer's speaking tour is suing Michigan State University for blocking Spencer from speaking on campus. He claims the school denies the extremist leader his First Amendment rights, David Jesse of the Detroit Free Press reports.
Attorney Kyle Bristow, an MSU alum who led the university's student chapter of the conservative Young Americans for Freedom, filed the suit on Saturday in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids on behalf of Georgia State University student Cameron Padgett.
Padgett says the university blocked him from renting a conference room at the on-campus Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center for the speech.
The university says in an August statement:
"After consultation with law enforcement officials, Michigan State University has decided to deny the National Policy Institute’s request to rent space on campus to accommodate a speaker. This decision was made due to significant concerns about public safety in the wake of the tragic violence in Charlottesville last weekend.
