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Posted on 01/22/2014 3:22:56 PM PST by massmike
Members of the University of Michigan Black Student Union (BSU) are calling for “physical action” against the school if it does not meet their list of seven demands in seven days.
The members of the group spoke on the steps of Hill Auditorium yesterday after a lecture by actor Harry Belafonte, who called for combating societal problems and compared the U.S. prison system to the Ku Klux Klan.
The students emphasized the lack of the diversity and inclusion on campus to a crowd of 75 students, according to MLive. They even went so far as to compare their campaign to the efforts of the Black Action Movement of 1970, which lead to a temporary shutdown of the university’s campus.
Senior Erick Gavin read the group’s seven demands, which included increasing the BSU budget, establishing housing on school's central campus "for those of lower-socio-economic status,” and a new multicultural center on campus.
Other measures included requiring the university to teach the “historical treatment and marginalization of colored groups through race and ethnicity requirements” and the allocation of “emergency scholarships” for black students in need of financial support. The students also want access to all documents inside the Bentley Library so that they can see how the university dealt with race relations in the past and "an increase in black representation on the campus equal to 10 percent.”
According to BSU treasurer Robert Greenfield, there has been no formal negotiation between the university and the BSU regarding the demands. MLive reports that students were hesitant to describe what physical actions they might undertake should the school not meet their demands.
On Monday, University President Mary Sue Coleman also laid out plans to boost the minority student body on campus, empower the students that are currently there, and also laid out plans to improve the school’s multicultural center.
“After climbing a great hill, [Nelson Mandela] once said, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. That is the work of developing a diverse inclusive campus. It is ongoing, one victory at a time, with more hills to climb,” Coleman said before Belafonte’s speech.
Extortion...we all know how this practice elevated our nations standard of education, when it was applied in the 1960’s...Sigh
Maybe the physical action will be the door hitting ‘em in the butt.
Sounds like a bunch of very nice people. They would make nice if somebody made them some cookies and poured them a cold glass of milk. Surely those aren’t real threats. You know.....
Where do these losers learn extortion? Wouldn’t their time be better spent learning their lessons in class so they can get a degree and an eventual job? I guess that is too foreign to their distorted sense of culture. I wonder how many of them even bother to attend classes, let alone study.
To cure racism - we need racism.
Or we riot.
If all this sounds familiar, you could be thinking of the shenanigans that were allowed to take place during the Black Power days of the 60s and 70s, when a young maniac named Eric Holder took part in an armed occupation of ROTC headquarters at Columbia University, demanding that the office be renamed the “Malcolm X Lounge.”
http://moonbattery.com/?p=18452
Boss: Good afternoon Mr graduate. What did you learn at the U of Michigan that will help us move our company forward?
Applicant: I learned about the historical treatment and marginalization of colored groups through race and ethnicity.
Boss: Ok. Thank you for coming in.
This is Obama’s legacy. Setting back race relations 50 years. Blacks are becoming more militant, but in the end they’ll be the biggest losers. Because whites will not accommodate them and once they’ve outlived their usefulness to the Democrats, they’ll be disposed of as well. Sad.
What was The White Student Union’s response?
“colored groups”?
Yes, let us by all means have the discussion, especially the part about how economic resources can be made to materialize out of thin air. A teachable moment if there ever was one for young socialists.
Harry Belafonte the racist? Nuff said.
YUou can see here they are backing down on all demands. And any action will be non-physical and non-violent.
Imagine a White Student’s Union making the same demands. Of course a White Student Union would be racist. Don’t people recognize the hypocrisy?
Potential employer: I want large fries with that.
Applicant: I learned about the historical treatment and marginalization of colored groups through race and ethnicity.
Boss: Ok. Thank you for coming in.
Boss: You start Monday. Welcome to the US Department of Justice.
Much better to do this near the end of the normal school calendar when it's warm outside.
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