So who was the informer who fingered the black students and triggered the black student walkout at Holy Cross. It was one of my classmates, brother of a now celebrity talking head. He confessed years ago. He was the head waiter in the dining hall and the blacks students worked for him. He was mortified. He had no idea they were the only blacks, allegedly, at the demonstration. Why'd he rat them out. Understand that this young man was the perfect boy. He didn't swear, drink (at least not much), or use politically incorrect epithets (anachronism but accurate), and was a commander in the ROTC unit, winner of an ROTC scholarship as coveted as an appointment to the Naval Academy at Annapolis. If a Jesuit had told him to carry black student leader Art Martin's books to class, he'd have responded: what time do I need to be at his dorm room, Father. He did what was expected of him. And, oh yeah, there was a thing going on between him and the Black Student Union's resident provocateur who worked for him in the dining hall. Much as I don't want to sympathize with informers (note elsewhere in this blog my reference to a real, not let's pretend revolutionary, my great uncle the IRA captain) like Brother Rat or the college authorities who involved him...honestly... Brother Rat and the college got sucker punched.
BSU resident provocateur and some very smart white underclass activists positioned the black students so that their presence would complicate the administration's response to the 1969 demonstration that disrupted GE recruiting.
Ironically, the smartest conspirator of them all, a white student, went on to become a very successful and highly placed insurance executive who's now a contributor to conservative Republican presidential hopefuls. The black student leader Clarence Thomas is now a conservative Supreme Court Justice and Ted Wells is an aggressive prosecuting attorney for the NFL.
