When Hollywood types descend on a protest, it’s usually to spout some liberal nonsense.
So the last person I thought would come to a protest of a conservative black professor accused of hate speech against Islam to defend the scholar was a former performer on Saturday Night Live, one of the most left-leaning shows out there.
And yet that’s exactly what happened Saturday, when SNL alum Victoria Jackson came to a protest at Vanderbilt University to speak on behalf of embattled scholar Carol Swain, a staunch conservative who has come under fire for a recent opinion column in the Tennessean critical of Islam.
On her website, Jackson says she has a “conservative mind and a Godly heart.” It’s also clear from her website that she is waging a one-woman war against the advancement of Sharia law in America.
On Saturday at Vanderbilt, where students protested Professor Swain, calling her op-ed on Islam “hate speech,” Jackson was there holding a big “Ban Sharia” sign and asking the students and others who had gathered at the protest: “Why can’t I say that Mohammed had a wife who was six years old?”
She said it in her famously soft, mickey-mouse voice, but it was still quite shocking to see such a bold proclamation to college students, and right to their faces no less. She was willing to debate “Sharia law and whether we have freedom of speech.” Instead of getting into it, the small crowd just walked away from her. The College Fix has a video of the exchange:
On Jackson’s website, she proudly proclaims: I stand with Swain. She also notes her belief that Sharia cannot coexist with the U. S. Constitution. And her description of what happened when she tried to address the crowd at the protest Saturday sounds about right for a college campus.
“I approached the microphone politely and asked the grownups nearby if I could speak,” Jackson relayed. “I’m Carol’s friend and a fellow conservative who is concerned about the safety of America. The grownups scuttled about nervously and quickly turned the microphone off.”
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