An expelled student at a historically black university,
Howard University in fact, is suing the college for
$8 million after he claims he was racially discriminated against.
Now he's white, and among his many complaints was that a group
message in which other students were included,
basically they called him Mayo, Mayo King, and he don't like it, okay?
But they called him king, that's royalty.
>> They did call him king, okay- >> Elevating.
>> Let me just pause for
anyone who has already freaked out over, you're being unfair.
He shouldn't feel uncomfortable like that.
Okay, he went out of his way to provoke students on race based topics and
then got upset when the students bit back with things like mayo king, okay?
So let's get to the details.
We'll list what he's alleging and then we'll give you the other side as well.
So representing himself in his 11 count lawsuit, Michael Newman,
who enrolled in the fall of 2020 on a scholarship argued that he faced
discrimination on a scale none of my classmates likely ever experienced.
We got to pause right there, you are going to a historically black college.
>> That's a shockingly spicy take from a mailman.
>> [LAUGH] What is wrong with you?
>> He knows what he's doing when he says that.
I presume, I don't know him, I have no idea.
Maybe he's wonderful, the evidence that's been presented thus far would lead me to
believe he's probably not, but maybe it's fine.
But I hope that that's not ignorance that would lead you to make a claim like that.
>> So Newman's lawsuit, look, his filing was short, only 70 pages and
is written in the third person since he's serving as his own lawyer.
I love this guy, I love this guy.
>> That's fair, it should be in the third person.
>> Let's invite him on the show.
Come on, I wanna hear him make his case.
No, I'm serious.
>> We don't have time if it takes 70 pages.
>> We have to invite him on the show.
>> Okay, invite him.
>> Okay, Michael Newman, I wanna hear him defend himself and
this case because I'm fascinated by it.
>> Okay, sure. >> So there's more.
In the lawsuit,
he reveals that he repeatedly made offensive race based declarations.
So multiple times throughout the suit, Newman says other students characterized
his comments as racist, insensitive, sexist, and offensive.
The tension started when he stated in a class GroupMe, okay,
where I part with the black community is where they believe
government solves problems, I only see it causing problems.
So first, like look, if I don't think it's offensive for
someone to feel that more government leads to more problem.
I disagree with that.
It depends on how governments involved.
Clearly, it depends on who's in government.
But like you're also- >> What could possibly be racist about
what he said then?
>> Treating the black community as he calls it as a monolith, because yeah,
they're not all the same.
They all have different beliefs and different ideas and
different political views, so there's that.
So he added that he wanted to discuss further whether black voters didn't
question turning to government for solutions.
I think we could read between the lines there.
>> I think we've all been in a class with this person as well,
not this exact person.
>> Not me, I have not experienced someone like this in my classes, interesting.
Okay, Newman said in the suit that some students
engaged with him on his comments while others acted with acrimony.
Well yeah, when you say things that are meant to be provocative,
you'll get a response and that's the thing that I want people to understand.
By the way his right to share his views should be protected, right?
But you don't get to silence students who disagree with your views and
that's what it sounds like he's offended that the students had their own views and
they fought back.
Sure they insulted him, but did he consider that maybe he insulted them?
>> Yeah. >> Yeah.
>> Yeah, which is actually more offensive, making a reference to him being
an anthropomorphic condiment or claiming that a community of tens of millions
of people all have the exact same position on political philosophy?
Which of those is actually more offensive?
By the way, don't call him the mayo king.
First of all, save it for the next democratic primary.
I wanted to have more sting when Buttigieg finally announces.
Second of all, he wants you to call him that.
This is me speculating, I don't represent TYT or myself too,
I don't wanna be sued, this is me speculating.
Is this why he went there in the first place?
>> I don't know.
>> By the way, plenty of white students or students who are black go to HBCUs.
Many of them are prestigious universities, so there's nothing inherently
suspect about going but going and then picking a bunch of race based fights and
then suing for a ridiculous amount of money.
This is purely speculation on not making any specific claims about intent or
anything like that.
But one could read into that as a way to either make money or
possibly get brought onto Fox News because I have a feeling this guy is
powdering up for Tucker Carlson right now, speculation, speculation.
>> John, you and I are atheists, right?
Like let's go to a church and just start saying provocative things to people of
faith, and then get real upset when they're not nice to us.
>> And then sue, obviously.
>> And then sue when they're mad at us.
Yeah, amazing.
>> By the way again, don't insult people in a group chat.
And I'm saying that both of the people insulted him and very much to him,
try to keep those things civil or
if it feels like it's moving in a different direction, just don't engage.
Like one of the things you will learn in college is that there are many people and
he seems to be one of them that just desperately wants to fight with you about
this sort of thing.
And you don't actually have an obligation to take part in that.
>> So he ended up getting booted from the GroupMe chat because
he was stirring up stuff.
Around the same time, Newman said he made a comment in a class Zoom chat
comparing himself as a Caucasian student at Howard Law to
an African American student at a primarily white university.
Newman wrote in his lawsuit, Jesus, let's keep going.
Which by the way, like this doesn't really help his case at all.
Other students being hostile toward him is an interesting accusation as
is being hostile to the students that he's accusing of being hostile to him.
Now he writes in the lawsuit that the treatment that he received,
the vilification he suffered from really negatively impacted his mental health.
But their attitude toward him isn't too surprising when he does stuff like this.
Newman said in the suit that he shared a series of letters with his peers
wherein he called into question some classmates' claims of past race based
harassment at other universities.
He also shared a link to uncle Tom a documentary by right
wing commentator Larry Elder.
Nonetheless, he went to administrators to complain about all of this.
Newman also wrote that Howard University President Wayne Frederick asking for
help to address racial discrimination and seeking reassurance that my
status as a Caucasian student is equal to that of my African American colleagues.
>> God.
>> You guys get it.
I mean, there's so much more I can get into, but like guys,
everything that I just outlined for you, he wrote in the suit.
>> [LAUGH] >> So the real question and
where I think the university is culpable, where I think the university is culpable
is what are your standards in accepting some of these students?
>> He have scholarship.
He obviously had good grades I guess in high school.
This feels, again speculation,
this feels like the legal equivalent of a humiliation kink, it's what it feels like.
Like I'm just gonna confess all my sins in this document.
>> I've been a bad, bad boy.
>> By the way again, again, we feel it's knee jerk need to constantly be
fair even though it's never once been acknowledged by the other side.
Don't harass the person, like don't engage if you feel like that's the only way
that the communication should go down and
everyone should be comfortable at these places.
Even nitwits who try to pick constant ideological fights to get a reaction.
That said, they don't owe him $8 million,
if anything they've suffered mental trauma from having to have these interactions.
I just wanna get a statement from the president about having this kid sit across
the desk and
be like, I just want acknowledgement that my pain is same as everyone else's.
They called me a mail boy.
>> Yeah, yeah, it's just- >> That principle is not gonna have
to think about that every day for the rest of his life and then laugh.
>> Look, I don't care about them calling him mayo king, like who cares, right?
>> It's not as bad as cracker.
I think we can all agree to that.
>> I mean Crackle will get you banned.
>> Banned from Twitch for that.
>> Yeah, no, but like the argument I would make is what this guy seems
to be desperately wanting is the reaction that he got, right?
So don't give him the pleasure of that reaction because that's what he wants,
he wants to trigger you, he wants to upset you, he wants to provoke.
So don't let him and ignore him like little puissant that he is.
>> She just went way beyond me, God.
>> It's more accurate.
>> He probably preferred mayo king.
>> I don't know what he prefers.
I prefer he shut up and go away.