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Black football players at Missouri: We'll sit out until system president resigns
CNN ^ | November 8, 2015 | By Michael Pearson, Faith Karimi and Joe Sutton

Posted on 11/08/2015 4:24:03 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

(CNN)Black football players at the University of Missouri have joined calls demanding the ouster of the president of the state's four-campus university system over alleged inaction against racism on campus.

About 30 players made their thoughts known Saturday night in a tweet posted by Missouri's Legion of Black Collegians.

"The athletes of color on the University of Missouri football team truly believe "Injustice Anywhere is a threat to Justice Everywhere," read the tweet. "We will no longer participate in any football related activities until President Tim Wolfe resigns or is removed due to his negligence toward marginalized students' experience."

The players' move is the latest salvo in a spiraling debate over the experiences of African-American students at Missouri, who have complained of inaction on the part of school leaders in dealing with racism on the overwhelmingly white campus.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; diversity; football; jonathanbutler; missouri; multicuturalism; paytonhead; thugocracy; timwolfe; uofmissouri
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To: fhayek

Yet plenty here will gladly wear the jerseys of these men-children if it was “their” team.


21 posted on 11/08/2015 4:41:33 PM PST by sunrise_sunset
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To: MinorityRepublican

Based on their record it looks like they’ve been sitting out all season!


22 posted on 11/08/2015 4:41:54 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: 17th Miss Regt

As I posted on the other thread, my wife points out that this is the logical extension to letting Vanderbilt beat you.


23 posted on 11/08/2015 4:43:42 PM PST by KC Burke (Ceterum censeo Islam esse delendam)
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To: phormer phrog phlyer
Canceling games will not be appreciated by the TV networks who are paying big bucks to broadcast them.

Correct. It's also unfair to the fans of BYU, Tennessee, and Arkansas. These schools are scheduled to play Missouri still.

24 posted on 11/08/2015 4:45:07 PM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I’m not familiar with the complete history of events, but most of them seem to be orchestrated.

http://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/higher_education/racial-climate-at-mu-a-timeline-of-incidents-to-date/article_0c96f986-84c6-11e5-a38f-2bd0aab0bf74.html


25 posted on 11/08/2015 4:45:22 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: ealgeone

Well of course they are not doing well. How can they do well when they are subjected to these daily microaggressions?


26 posted on 11/08/2015 4:46:34 PM PST by ichabod1 (Spriiingtime for islam, and tyranny. Winter for US and frieeends. . .)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Bubba ain't got time for that.


27 posted on 11/08/2015 4:46:35 PM PST by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

If the majority of students are white then try actin’ white and become a part of the majority.


28 posted on 11/08/2015 4:46:56 PM PST by Texicanus (Texas, it's like a whole 'nother country.)
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To: choctaw man
They want a ‘person of color’ to preside over the university.

Bill Cosby has doctorate in education...

29 posted on 11/08/2015 4:48:13 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: MinorityRepublican

Let ‘em.


30 posted on 11/08/2015 4:48:24 PM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Why don’t the students simply ask for what they really want; complete submission of body, soul, and spirit to those “of color”...which may include white extermination. For surely, any disagreement with these little genius victims is racism. Oh, and let’s not forget the million man march a couple weeks ago for #OnlyBlackLivesMatter that Farrakhan and Jeremiah Wright (Obama’s Pastor) led, calling for the extermination of the “white man’s God” and replacing him with Allah and his prophet Mohammed (swine urine be upon his name/grave). While I do not expect fatherless athletes steeped in CRA to know better, I am shocked and dismayed at the cowering enablers allowing these young barbarians to think they are right.


31 posted on 11/08/2015 4:49:04 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Swallowing poison and hoping your enemy dies.


32 posted on 11/08/2015 4:50:05 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: Flycatcher

Open the team up to all the guys playing intramural ball, right now. Field a team on Saturday even if the score is 100-0.

Consider any scholarship player who doesn’t show in breach of contact and just give his place on the team to someone else.


33 posted on 11/08/2015 4:50:34 PM PST by OKSooner
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To: kalee
We should apply “affirmative Action Law” to Athletics including the NBA, NFL and MLB
34 posted on 11/08/2015 4:50:35 PM PST by stubernx98 (cranky, but reasonable)
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To: OKSooner

I like it.


35 posted on 11/08/2015 4:55:36 PM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: 17th Miss Regt
The whole team? Fire them.

Do you have any idea how much the University makes off of them? They'll draw and quarter the University president first.

36 posted on 11/08/2015 4:56:58 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: MinorityRepublican

These little cry babies are stuck on DUMB. I’m sick of this whining. Stand up and be an American instead of a black Sambo!! Get tough and make a living and take care of your children and the women “yo” impregnated. I’m tired of paying for them!!


37 posted on 11/08/2015 4:58:48 PM PST by WENDLE (Trump is not bought . He is no puppet.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
From what is said in the article, it sounds like a few baseless claims are the center of all of this. In other words, more BLM activity.
38 posted on 11/08/2015 4:59:38 PM PST by Major Matt Mason (Those that can, do, those that can't, work in the Beltway.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

pick up games at the Walmart parking lot.
= = =
How about waiting for pick up work at the Home Depot lot?


39 posted on 11/08/2015 5:01:30 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (Using 4th keyboard due to wearing out the "/" and "s" on the previous 3)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Verdict first. Trial later


40 posted on 11/08/2015 5:01:33 PM PST by griswold3 (Just another unlicensed nonconformist in am dangerous Liberal world.)
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