Rollins Board Members Complicit in Extremist President's Radical Agenda

  And yet many a college board across the country boasts in composition a majority Republican membership. A local instance of this tragedy occurs yearly at our own Rollins College. The board, consisting mainly of Republicans and conservative Democrats (save some far left lunes such as Mr. Theodore Alfond), elected to support Dr. Grant Cornwell as president of the highly respected learning institution.

  Nevertheless, despite Cornwell's radical background as a proponent of Critical Race Theory, the board proceeded in backing him and supports him to this day full heartedly. Critical Race Theory proposes that the enitre history of America aligns with one purpose: the subjugation of brown and black peoples at the hands of whites, without regard to any other political reasons for the earliest explorers' endeavors or the true justifications behind many of the facets of our constitution.

  Cornwell's political actions undermined religious freedom and personal expression time after time, and on one occasion I myself came under his crosshairs when I opposed a radical Islamist professor relating historically false information about the crucifixion of Jesus.

  Though many of my beliefs on religion evolved since that time, I still hold firm in the idea of our country as a Christian nation, while at the same time harbouring a belief that we must retain a pluralistic environment where people of all stripes can express themselves freely. Cornwell does not. And that is precisely why his regime of anti-American and Marxist policies underscores a dire necessity to purge America's boards of crony capitalist and corrupt, self interested corporate elites.

  By all accounts, Grant Cornwell appears to be a decent man. Any indictment against his ideological underpinnings and misgivings do not characterize an attack on his person. However, the board bears responsibility for his intoxicating and misplaced effort to subdue freedom of expression and implement the fallacious religion of critical race theory and "wokeness" at the school.

  In the same fashion that a football player wears a uniform, so do many of the Republicans on the Rollins College board in choosing their political party. If they do possess fundamental beliefs guiding their lives, their personal interests override those either for purposes of ego or some sort of personal financial graft.

  Let’s examine a few instances I witnessed in recent years.

  Allan Keen, yet another hypocritical fiend who once served as chairman of the board of Rollins College also consistently abdicates his duty to defend the values, the virtues and the heritage of this country in Central Florida's finest college.

  Keen not only refused to combat Cornwell's extremist positions but moreover, failed to recognize the importance of the national anthem at college graduations and the disgraceful nature of the anti-American art at the Alfond Inn.

  His egomaniacal attachments to his former chairmanship and tenure as a boardmember hinder significantly his ability to combat such egregious activities at the college. But his business interests, for one reason or another, remain his overriding concern, whether as a board member or in his political life, as evidenced by his political donations— one season to another, wildly swinging from Democratic to Republican candidates. 

  The most recent account of his political treachery: a backstabbing donation to Democratic Congresswoman Stephanie Murphy after years of loyalty to the seventh district's most preeminent Republican representative, Congressman John Mica, perhaps in a bid to strengthen the political footing of his real estate empire.

  The third and final exhibit to be examined: the elitist haughtiness of board member Carroll Hanley. A number of years ago, before my disenchantment with Turning Point USA's feckless policy positions and ineffectiveness grew, I frequently attended their college conferences. I regularly met many a donor through my network of friends at social hours.

  I recall one distinct occasion when I sat next to the mother of Miss Carroll Hanley. Mrs. Hanley, enthralled in conversation about my recent expose at Rollins College, eagerly texted her daughter in excitement about her newly found friend (myself). Her cell phone open on the table indicated a quick and harsh reply as a message from her daughter dinged through: "Oh no. He’s a terrible person."

  I’ve never been much for self-aggrandizement and I certainly have many personal faults. But as someone who spent years traveling to Iraq, Syria and Lebanon to support refugees with supplies from generous members of our community, and as an individual who twice restored veteran Civil War cemeteries, I never imagined myself to be such an abhorrent man.

  What then was my crime according to Miss Hanley? Embarrassing the college for their own mistake: hiring a radical extremist with Islamist terrorist connections, something well documented in legal briefs.

  Her inability to stand up for what is right, and stand up for her alleged values as an American on the college board at Rollins speak volumes.

  Rollins College serves as only one exhibit in the realm of this disgraceful activity across the university system in the United States.

  Though the Republicans and conservatives on the board of the college may seem at face value to ideologically oppose Cornwell, they do possess one similar trait: a smug, elitist attitude, topped off by a tinge of sanctimonious snobbery.

  While they sit aloft in their ivory towers snubbing their noses at average Americans and backward traditionalists like myself, Rome burns.

  I admit to being a flawed person. I’ll certainly endure great attacks on my own character for exposing this unholy and bastardized alliance. At the knowledge of this tragedy, my spirit remains crestfallen. Standing by while this injustice cures as a permanent feature at this my alma mater forces my hand to blow the whistle, not only for the sake of the public and our nation, but for the students attending the college.