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reACTIONary

(7,289 posts)
Mon Oct 27, 2025, 09:01 AM Oct 2025

What happens when a conservative group visits an HBCU homecoming?

Turning Point’s Blexit group is on a tour of historically Black campuses in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s slaying. Howard University students weren’t impressed...

Well, duh. https://wapo.st/4qplxmh


On the outskirts of Yardfest, the annual campus concert that draws thousands to [Howard's] famed quad, two groups faced off. On one side, a man with bulging muscles and a microphone interviewed a group of eventgoers while a cameraman donning an “America First” baseball cap videoed for Blexit. Just a few feet away, members of a countermovement waved a handmade sign that read, “Blexit = Black people for white supremacist fascism.”
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What happens when a conservative group visits an HBCU homecoming? (Original Post) reACTIONary Oct 2025 OP
I was curious about Lucha Bright, the lone counter protester named in the article... reACTIONary Oct 2025 #1
So, like everything else, cons can't come up with original ideas. mwmisses4289 Oct 2025 #2

reACTIONary

(7,289 posts)
1. I was curious about Lucha Bright, the lone counter protester named in the article...
Mon Oct 27, 2025, 10:40 AM
Oct 2025

.... and it turns out I have something of a background familiarity with her organization. She is an activist with "Resist Fascism", which is something like a front organization for commie-cult Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. They also run another group of quasi-front organizations on college campuses, called Revolution Clubs.

They are both infamous AND something of a joke at my alma mater, UChicago. And have been for much longer than the 40 years since I attended. Here is an interview (c. 2019) in the campus newspaper that features her and also provides some RevCom Club anecdotes.

https://chicagomaroon.com/26828/grey-city/whats-really-going-revcom-party-outlook/

mwmisses4289

(4,714 posts)
2. So, like everything else, cons can't come up with original ideas.
Mon Oct 27, 2025, 11:28 AM
Oct 2025

Looking up the term Blexit, it apparently started as a grassroots organization in Minneapolis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blexit

The original organization should sue the pants off tpusa for coopting their name.

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