A Wichita man who once threatened to storm the Sedgwick County Courthouse and shoot police officers if they got in his way is now a student senator at Wichita State University. And he’s under fire for wearing a “white lives matter” face mask to his first student government event.
Sam McCrory, 27, was sworn into office while wearing the mask Thursday, the day after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of the murder of George Floyd.
McCrory, an electrical engineering major, said he wore the mask to make a political point and to push back against “the modern left” which he said “hates white people.”
“I’m not going to be a second-class citizen in my own country,” he said. “People can wear Black Lives Matter masks and nobody cares. But if someone wears a white lives matter mask, all of a sudden there’s a huge firestorm.”
“The fact that I got on to social media yesterday and saw my university posting students sporting white nationalist propaganda was disappointing and embarrassing to say the least,” Newby said. “I think having differing opinions within the SGA is different than allowing outright racists to take a seat with SGA.”
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