Mizzou hunger striker from very wealthy Omaha family

St.Louis Post Dispatch ^ | 11/11/2015 | Joe Holleman

[fingers_crossed]

Mizzou hunger-strike, Johnathan Butler, son of top railroad exec. He is a member of a prominent Omaha family. The newspaper says that Butler's father is Eric L. Butler, executive vice president for sales and marketing for the Union Pacific Railroad. His 2014 compensation was $8.4 million, according to regulatory filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

[FlingWingFlyer]

So Mr. Hungry is a one percenter? Awesome. I guess that’s how he can afford eight years in “college”.

[bubbacluck]

I also seem to remember the massive student strikes in Paris during the sixties that were paralyzing to the city and country. If my memory serves me correctly.

[Rodamala]

One sammich for Charlotte... one for me... and NONE for you!

[fingers_crossed]

A passage in MLK's I Have A Dream speech is almost always only partially quoted, I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin

but what is omitted is just as important... but by the content of their character.

African-americans like to complain they are being judged by the color of their skin. They are blind to the fact that we have progressed to the point were they are really being judged mostly by the content of their character.

[wally_bert]

Heart attack on a bun.

[ßuddaßudd]

Who knew that RRs had that kind of money for sales & marketing execs . . .

[JoeProBono]

[minnesota_bound]

He is working toward a master’s degree in educational leadership and policy.

In short a master at troublemaking.

[Verginius Rufus]

Omaha can take pride in its native sons. Malcolm X was also born in Omaha.

[Verginius Rufus]

Omaha can take pride in its native sons. Malcolm X was also born in Omaha.

[SkyDancer]

In reading history that seems the case. The universities were the seat of ‘discontent’ for the privileged who were discontented most of the time; most likely out of boredom.

[babble-on]

Come and see the violence inherent in the system!! Come and see the violence inherent in the system!!

[MortMan]

I don’t think she’s sitting down, much less on one cheek! ;-P

[CrazyIvan]

https://youtu.be/bjIH1jdx2_A

Seven years of college down the drain.

[fieldmarshaldj]

“Feelings... whoa, whoa, whoa, Feelings...”

[Stand Watch Listen]

Jonathan Butler, Mizzou hunger striker protesting 'white privilege' has a father making $6 million last year

[NormsRevenge]

That’s OK, Karl Marx was from a well to do family too..

[smokingfrog]

Butler has said that the police shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson in 2014 and the subsequent protests there marked a turning point for him. He spent time in Ferguson, a two-hour drive from Columbia, lending his voice two summers ago.

His current school, the University of Missouri, was built by slaves in what was once a slave state. The first black student was admitted in 1950. Even today, eight out of 10 students there are white. Butler has described being called the N-word on campus.

[terycarl]

Daddy was great at making money...wonderful and admirable, but apparently not too good at instilling a sense of responsibility in his kids.