Posted on 11/14/2015 10:49:59 AM PST by Kaslin
Racial unrest on college campuses has spread from coast to coast in the past several days, but it began at the University of Missouri, where a graduate student went on a hunger strike to force the resignation of the college president. A group known as Concerned Student 1950, named for the year in which the first black student was admitted to the University of Missouri, demanded not only that University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe step down but also that he acknowledge his "white privilege." Black football players piled on, saying they would refuse to play as long as Wolfe stayed.
Quickly, both the college president and chancellor submitted their resignations, handing the bullies a huge victory. Buoyed by the success at Missouri, students at Yale, Claremont McKenna, Vanderbilt, UCLA and some 20 other campuses took to the quads to express their own racial grievances and issue their demands. Who knows where this frenzy will end?
It is worth noting, however, that the evidence of rampant racism at Mizzou, which started the racial stampede, began with just a few anecdotal incidents. A student claimed that a group of whites in a pickup had yelled a racial slur as he walked near campus. Then word spread of the discovery of a swastika drawn with feces on the wall in a dorm bathroom. It was enough to send students scurrying to the barricades. But the more information that emerges about these incidents the more questions arise about whether the original allegations weren't much ado about -- if not nothing -- very little.
Missouri, known as the Show-Me State, hasn't lived up to its reputation lately, beginning with the false racial narrative of the Michael Brown killing in 2014. The Obama Justice Department found in a civil rights investigation into Brown's shooting that the "hands up, don't shoot" story was, as The Washington Post's liberal journalist Jonathan Capehart noted in March, "built on a lie." Forensic evidence and multiple witness accounts show that Brown, who had just stolen items from a nearby convenience store, was the aggressor. Even though unarmed, Brown tried to grab Officer Darren Wilson's gun, which discharged inside the police cruiser, and punched him before Wilson took off in a pursuit that ended with Brown's shooting as he charged back toward the officer.
Like the "hands up, don't shoot" story, the incidents that sparked charges of widespread racism at Missouri don't hold up under scrutiny. Payton Head, the young black activist who alleged he'd been called the N-word by an unidentified group of white men off campus, is the student president -- a position to which he was presumably elected by the majority-white student body on the very campus he claims is a hotbed of racism. Many are questioning Head's unsubstantiated allegation in the wake of his bogus claims tweeted earlier this week that the Ku Klux Klan was on campus and that he was "working with the MUPD, the state trooper and the National Guard." Head apologized for having falsely warned students to "stay away from the windows in residence halls" because KKK sightings had been "confirmed" on campus and saying he was working with law enforcement, but the incident raises questions about Head's overall credibility.
And the feces swastika, though totally disgusting, doesn't quite fit the racial narrative, either. If the point was to target black students, why draw a symbol most associated with anti-Semitism? To date, no suspect -- or any specific target -- has been identified.
As for Jonathan Butler -- the 25-year-old hunger striker who, with his fellow Concerned Student 1950 members, demanded that Wolfe acknowledge his "white privilege" -- he should know something about privilege firsthand. His father earned $8.4 million last year as an executive for Union Pacific, according to public Securities and Exchange Commission filings. Butler is hardly the poster child for disadvantaged minority students.
These protests might be chalked up as meaningless mau-mauing if they didn't actually threaten the institutions and individuals at which they're aimed. But the alacrity with which college administrators have been caving in to demands is truly dangerous. The newly appointed Missouri president, former college administrator Michael Middleton, has pledged to lead the "university towards satisfying each and every one of those demands that can be satisfied." Among those demands are 10 percent racial quotas for black college admissions and faculty hiring -- both of which are unconstitutional at a state university. It is no accident that Middleton was one of the founders of an earlier protest group at Missouri, the Legion of Black Collegians, whose 1969 demands Concerned Student 1950 has reissued and Middleton promises to satisfy.
This is madness -- and it promises to foster racism, not help end it. University administrators and trustees must learn to stand up to bullies who play the race card, not cave in to demands to fire university officials whose chief crime seems to be that they are white.
Sorry, Missouri, you are cutting out. Can’t hear you, every thing right now is screaming to us in FRENCH, Paris is on the news, have you heard....
My guess is if instead these were illegal aliens demanding better representation and other assorted goodies Ms Chavez wouldn’t have much of a problem with it.
If the white students just sit back and let this nonsense go on I really don’t care what happens.
I’m weary of the whole thing.
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Does all of this have a phony feel to anyone else?
The Democrat Party is in disarray with two losers competing for the Presidency. Obama is trying to free terrorist while terrorist are murdering people in France and flooding across Europe. These campus meltdowns take over the news.. Just sayin...........
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It ended yesterday in Paris .... and the Baby Fascists are whining & complaining about the shift in media attention. Boo fricking hoo.
Liberal Activists Upset Paris Terrorist Attacks Are Getting Attention, Not Mizzou Protests
Since when does a death threat become more menacing because it is aimed at a person because of their skin color?
Death threats are serious.
The kid in question has been arrested.
Now, how about arresting the black idiots who say it’s time to start killing because whitey isn’t listening?
Mighty white of you.
I understand that the students from the University of Missouri and Yale are heading off to France to confront ISIS.
TOP UM RACE ACTIVIST and Student Body Prez Made Several Visits to White House – Met With Obama
GO MORMONS!
The SEC was very wrong to have asked that school to join it. A bunch of nuts. Kinda reminds me of the sign at the Bama frat house a week or so ago.
What people are witnessing is a coup. The events in Missouri perfectly illustrate the total inability of the white authorities to handle blacks. One frowning negro and one thousand whites flee in abject terror. We broke from England, formed a government, expanded across a continent and made nations tremble. We formed and administered the greatest economy the world has ever seen. Then one day in 2008 A.D. we abdicated all of our governance and turned our affairs over to administration by a negro community organizer from Chicago. He has governed as well as one would expect from such a creature. He exhibits the resentment and petty malice of the negro community organizer. Just listen to them.
Mizzou, where you can get pussy and be a pussy all at the same time.
OK, I know I’m pushing the line a bit with that one...
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Excellent comment, and so true
How much more attentions do these morons want? Enough is enough. Maybe if they are ignored they will go away.
1839. 1839. What happened in 1839?
Oh, yes, of course! It was mid-term for Martin Van Buren!
Who chose Middleton as interim president? Do they have some kind of board of regents that makes such decisions? If so, how many were picked by the current Democrat governor?
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