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By Richard M. Perloff
Dr. Perloff is a professor at Cleveland State University.
  • May 4, 2020
On Friday, May 1, 1970, just after noon, about 300 students at Kent State University, outside Cleveland, gathered in the grassy campus Commons to protest President Nixon’s
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. As part of the protest, they buried a copy of the Constitution, a symbol of their outrage that Congress had never formally declared war on Vietnam or Cambodia, and they announced another rally, set for May 4.





The students were not only unarmed; most didn’t realize that the guards’ rifles held live ammunition. Four students were killed: Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder. Nine others were injured. After 50 years, we still don’t know why the guard turned and fired.

While Kent State was not the only instance of violence against student protesters, it immediately became a byword for state-sanctioned violence. Campuses nationwide erupted in protest. Krause, Miller, Scheuer and Schroeder became martyrs, their deaths memorialized by the band Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young in their song “Ohio.” The tremors were felt all the way to the White House; according to H.R. Haldeman, Nixon’s chief of staff, they precipitated the sense of political paranoia within the administration that set Watergate in motion.


Kent State also helped unearth a growing political polarization rooted in different views about the cultural changes wrought by the 1960s. The May 4 shootings were viewed very differently by conservatives and liberals; most conservatives endorsed the National Guard’s actions and at best wrote off the shooting as a tragic accident, at worst as the protesters’ just desert — a position that liberals and the left found unimaginable. “Just as many consider shootings by the police to be ridding the streets of ‘thugs,’ the killings at Kent State were also celebrated by many. ‘National Guard 4, Students 0,’ or ‘They Should have Shot 400’ were commonly voiced views,” Professor Grace wrote, finding a vicious split that is echoed today over everything from climate change to the Kavanaugh hearings.

We also need to recognize the way that Kent State is viewed through race. The students shot on May 4, all white, became martyrs; most people have forgotten that less than two weeks later, Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green,
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, were killed by police officers in the wake of a false rumor about the death of a civil rights leader. And while Kent State stands out as an exception — National Guardsmen killing white college students — over the years, state authorities have killed far more African-American protesters than whites.

Seen through that lens, Kent State was not an aberration at all, but a dramatic continuation of national afflictions — above all the willingness by the state to use force to quash dissent.

We also need to recognize the way that Kent State is viewed through race. The students shot on May 4, all white, became martyrs; most people have forgotten that less than two weeks later, Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green,
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, were killed by police officers in the wake of a false rumor about the death of a civil rights leader. And while Kent State stands out as an exception — National Guardsmen killing white college students — over the years, state authorities have killed far more African-American protesters than whites.

Seen through that lens, Kent State was not an aberration at all, but a dramatic continuation of national afflictions — above all the willingness by the state to use force to quash dissent.

We also need to recognize the way that Kent State is viewed through race. The students shot on May 4, all white, became martyrs; most people have forgotten that less than two weeks later, Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green,
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, were killed by police officers in the wake of a false rumor about the death of a civil rights leader. And while Kent State stands out as an exception — National Guardsmen killing white college students — over the years, state authorities have killed far more African-American protesters than whites.

Seen through that lens, Kent State was not an aberration at all, but a dramatic continuation of national afflictions — above all the willingness by the state to use force to quash dissent.
 
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Ok, Commie...

(Check the tens of millions your heroes killed in the 20th Century)... lulz
 

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Disperse and stop resisting. Stay alive the smart way libs...
Your new AV:

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You finally lost all sight of a distinction between you and your troll, didn't you?
Very sad, former friend.

Very sad indeed,
 
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Leftist ignore the Days of Rage and think ignoring terrorism on the left makes the left superior and makes their radical hate justified.

Irony... .but brainwashed people make no sense.

All political extremists are scumbags. PERIOD. And it's not "cooonnns" or the right wing out there fucking up the country with hate and violence today so deal with where the pendulum is swinging in 2021 and stop deluding yourself that your stories you dug out to justify political hate makes you not part of the problem.

You gotta be a partisan HACK to think like this.

Just last summer radical left wingers murdered a little girl(as well as nearly 40 other people), brutally beat several innocent people. Destroyed entire communities. You dont care about that? Then you dont really care about that OLD story either. You are just using it to fuel your hatred of other people.
 

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Haha. You should pursue her, Admin. Don't laugh. The ordinary-guy father of a friend of my son married the ex-wife of a very rich guy whom you all have heard of and now the whole family is rich af.
 
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Bill And Melinda Gates Announce Divorce
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It'll surely be the largest divorce settlment in History.

$30-40 billion for him, $30-40 billion for her.

Divorce may accomplish what the Antitrust laws never could, eh?

Breaking up Microsoft.
 

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Bill And Melinda Gates Announce Divorce
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It'll surely be the largest divorce settlment in History.

$30-40 billion for him, $30-40 billion for her.

Divorce may accomplish what the Antitrust laws never could, eh?

Breaking up Microsoft.

I think Bezos' divorce was higher end, but either way, we're talking insane and unnecessary amounts of money in both cases.
 

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You wee weed a little in your panties when you read that. Didn’t you?

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