Amid reports of growing racial tension at the University of Missouri, Yale University and Southern Methodist University, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told a bipartisan crowd in Illinois that college students are "wasting their time" protesting racism.
“We have spent the last 60 years trying to get rid of segregation,” he said Monday during a speech at Northwestern University. “We’re not going to be bullied because a handful of people decide they can be important without having earned it.”
According to a report in The Daily Northwestern, Gingrich said students of color could eliminate racism by studying hard, working and getting wealthy.
Gingrich’s comments came just days after the University of Missouri’s top administrators resigned in the wake of a threatened boycott by the football team. Racist incidents and a perceived lack of response by administrators led to the team’s threat.
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