Michigan black student union: ‘physical action’ if seven demands not met in one week

The Daily Caller ^ | 01/20/2014 | Chuck Ross

[~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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[~Pandora]

There is a very simple solution to this. The College Republicans (if they have the guts and the budget) need to run an ad in the USA Today and Wall Street Journal asking Michigan alums to withhold donations if the administration caves.

Even a slobbering, brain dead idiot like Sally Mason understands the sound of checkbooks closing. That works too.

[VideoDoctor]

Midget mentality versus those susceptible to “political correctness” at the Univ of Michigan.

[~Pandora]

They will probably cave and then this can happen all over the country, because they will have gotten what they wanted.

[Moleman]

U of M is a hive of liberalism and idiocy...