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Michigan black student union: ‘physical action’ if seven demands not met in one week
The Daily Caller ^ | 01/20/2014 | Chuck Ross

Posted on 01/22/2014 10:03:19 PM PST by ~Pandora

Members of the University of Michigan Black Student Union said they would have to resort to “physical action” if a list of seven demands issued on Martin Luther King Day are not met within seven days, The Ann Arbor News reported.

“If negotiations are not complete we will be forced to do more, beginning to increase valiantly our activism for social progress and take physical actions on the University of Michigan’s campus,” said senior Shayla Scales to a group of students gathered on campus, according to the Ann Arbor News.

The seven demands, read aloud by an activist associated with the union after a speech by entertainer and activist Harry Belafonte, included calls for more control over the Black Student Union’s budget, more housing for lower-income students, a new multicultural student center, the requirement of classes teaching all students about the historical treatment of minorities, access to emergency scholarships for minority students, increased exposure to library materials and a requirement that 10 percent of the campus be represented by black students.

Besides the speech by Belafonte, who has recently compared conservative business leaders to the Ku Klux Klan at a rally for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, the social justice activist group By Any Means Necessary, which strongly advocates affirmative action policies, also rallied on campus, blocking traffic in the process.

Monday’s demands come two months after the Black Student Union began a Twitter campaign with the hashtag #BBUM. The hashtag, which stands for “Being Black at Michigan,” trended nationally and was a response to a campus fraternity’s plans to hold a “Hood Ratchet Thursday” party.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; extortion; harrybelafonte; mlk; racebaiters
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1 posted on 01/22/2014 10:03:19 PM PST by ~Pandora
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To: ~Pandora

Any one that get hurt as a result of this should sue the pants off the affirmative action students.


2 posted on 01/22/2014 10:07:51 PM PST by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: ~Pandora

They going to play “knockout” on some unsuspecting elderly white people?

Notice the cowards don’t confront people their own size and age?


3 posted on 01/22/2014 10:08:03 PM PST by boycott
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To: ~Pandora

I have an idea. Expel the trouble makers and have them all arrested.


4 posted on 01/22/2014 10:09:15 PM PST by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: ~Pandora

Do we have a countdown clock?


5 posted on 01/22/2014 10:09:46 PM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: BlackJack; Travis McGee

FWIW


6 posted on 01/22/2014 10:11:19 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: ~Pandora

This never would have happened if KFC was the official caterer of the union.


7 posted on 01/22/2014 10:12:41 PM PST by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: ElkGroveDan

I have a better idea. Midnight basketball!


8 posted on 01/22/2014 10:13:23 PM PST by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: ~Pandora
with the hashtag #BBUM. The hashtag, which stands for “Being Black at Michigan”

"At" starts with a "u" now?

In the world of UM's Black Student Union, I guess.


9 posted on 01/22/2014 10:19:01 PM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: ~Pandora

“...a requirement that 10 percent of the campus be represented by black students.”

A power grab. Everything else is a distraction.


10 posted on 01/22/2014 10:21:53 PM PST by Moose Burger
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To: ~Pandora

effing morons.

like obama and everyone destroying our country, i hope they fail.


11 posted on 01/22/2014 10:25:42 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: max americana

kfc!?! try popeyes.


12 posted on 01/22/2014 10:26:15 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ~Pandora

this meets the legal definition of Terrorist Threats, a felony


13 posted on 01/22/2014 10:29:11 PM PST by KTM rider
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To: samadams2000
Any one that get hurt as a result of this should sue the pants off the affirmative action students.

Totally agree.

14 posted on 01/22/2014 10:29:37 PM PST by ~Pandora
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To: canuck_conservative

Probably “Being Black at the University of Michigan”


15 posted on 01/22/2014 10:30:02 PM PST by BwanaNdege
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To: Secret Agent Man

Popeye’s only applies if it’s Tuesday. Line up on their $1.29 breast and thigh Tuesdays and you’ll find out.


16 posted on 01/22/2014 10:30:11 PM PST by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: ElkGroveDan
I have an idea. Expel the trouble makers and have them all arrested.

This is actually what should be done. Inform those issuing threats that the administration will not be coerced into any policy changes, and any student who engages in "physical action" will immediately be expelled and subjected to any applicable criminal charges. However, this is the Univ of Michigan and its spineless Liberal leaders and faculty will quite probably cave to the mau mau tactics of the black agitators.

17 posted on 01/22/2014 10:38:50 PM PST by Robwin
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To: ElkGroveDan
I have an idea. Expel the trouble makers and have them all arrested.

That was my first thought as well.

18 posted on 01/22/2014 10:39:10 PM PST by ~Pandora
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To: Jet Jaguar

Black student activism ping


19 posted on 01/22/2014 10:43:27 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: Robwin

This is from the article:

“The BBUM campaign, as difficult as it was to hear, has been incredibly insightful. We hear you, and we are making changes,” said University of Michigan president Mary Sue Coleman before Belafonte’s talk, The Ann Arbor News reported.


20 posted on 01/22/2014 10:43:28 PM PST by ~Pandora
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