Monday, October 10, 2016

'The biggest racist organization since the klan': Professor takes leave of absence from university after likening Black Lives Matter to the Ku Klux Klan in scathing Facebook post

A University of Virginia professor has taken a leave of absence from the school after he came under scathing attack over the weekend for likening the Black Lives Matter movement to the Ku Klux Klan.

Douglas Muir, who teaches at the school, commented on Facebook that he believed that Black Lives Matter was the 'biggest' racist organization since the KKK.

Muir, who lectures at UVA's Engineering School and who also owns a restaurant in the area, was responding to a Facebook post that included a photograph of a recent appearance by BLM co-founder Alicia Garza in Charlottesville .... http://www.dailymail.co.uk