Posted on 11/10/2015 7:55:03 AM PST by Biggirl
On his Tuesday broadcast of “Morning Joe,†MSNBC host Joe Scarborough attempted to dissect the events surrounding the alleged racial tensions at the University of Missouri that led to the resignations of the university’s president and its chancellor on Monday.
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I have been waiting for a journalist to provide me the news, specifically they have still not reported coherently what evidence there is to foment such a politically correct lynching?
I would rather have seen the Big Ten take Missouri (but with second thoughts now) and Iowa State. Geographically better suited to the conference. Not at all a fan of the addition of Rutgers and Maryland, especially since Indiana can’t seem to beat either one in football. Or anyone else, for that matter.
But those schools were added for east coast exposure. Makes no sense, but hey, West Virginia is in the Big 12, so what does it matter any more?
BINGO! The Tigers play a game this Saturday at Arrowhead Stadium (home of the NFL Chiefs). There is about $1M of profit on the line, that the university would be on the hook for if they didn't play the game. Then, there is another $500K to $1M in a bowl bid on the line, which would be lost if they didn't play on Sat. He resigned in order to get the football player back on the field.
He failed to lay a wreath at the mike brown shrine in Ferguson, thus he became a sacrificial lamb.
FEAR
You win the internet today!
Please hire David Boren away from OU...
The liberal universities brought this on themselves by creating the climate that encourages this mentality. Little did they dream that they themselves would become the target. The very monster they created has turned against them. Let them live with the consequences.
Your thoughts are very true, but there is a big danger with your second sentence. If we allow “politically correct thought” to trump our laws and constitution (the right to due process and a fair trial) we further erode the rule of law. They will use it on everyone to further their agenda and we already see that.
This is a very dangerous precedent that has largely been led by a single activist student with an unproven/unsubstantiated claim that an unknown person made a racist comment. It could have happened or it could not have happened - we will never know. More importantly, we will never even know if this “person” was a student or not a student. If they were a student and this was real, how is anyone supposed to stop this? It is against the law to rob someone, but robberies happen all the time. Do we banish the Judges and legislature who make/enforce laws against robbery because a robbery happens?
The left has to be wary of these causes because most of America (outside of liberal la la land) is becoming increasingly fed up with this stuff. Most of us see the dangers of Ferguson and the lack of reason that led to it. For every action there is a reaction and most Americans are very sick of unfairly being labeled racists. The candidates on the left will be panderbears for this crap, but they may be shocked at the results of such pandering.
“His crime was presidenting while white.”
I am surprised that Scarborough ask the obvious question. He has been going out on a limb lately.
He is white, and he was in power. That was enough. If he were black, there would have been no ouster. The little sh*theads on the football team, including the gutless coaches, were after white blood.
You can’t minimize the reaction of the upper echelons of the university to ALLEGATIONS of racism because of “white guilt” among intellectuals. Almost all of them agree that they are oppressors of black people simply because they are white. So if anyone points a finger at them and yells, “Racist” their inner guilt feelings kick in and they make a spectacle out of themselves, apologizing for being in power while white.
Makes me think of the Stalinist show trials in Russia back in the day, when Communist officials were made to confess to anti-soviet feelings or thoughts or actions.
I think Dinsdale Piranha is the name of the leader of the football team.
Liberals eventually ruin everything.
I’d be surprised if he wasn’t told to resign, or else. Football is god, and anything that threatens football has got to go. By the way, Gary Pinkel is a jerk.
Wolfe doesn't have an academic background. He had a business career before being named Mizzou system president. That alone would make the faculty suspicious of him but he had the misfortune to follow Gary Forsee as president. Forsee was the man who drove Sprint onto the ground before becoming the UM System president and who was, by all accounts, a disaster in that role. Replacing one business insider with another gave Wolfe his first big strike against him.
One of his early cost cutting plans involved ending health care subsidies for all the graduate assistants and pushing them onto Obamacare. It had been part of their compensation for being teaching assistants and the university cut it. The university later changed their mind but was a PR black eye and didn't make the graduate students happy.
The Missouri legislature is no happier with Planned Parenthood than any other conservative body is and they tried to force through some acts like forcing a doctor who was employed by the University from also working with Planned Parenthood, where she supposedly did abortions. They also cancelled contracts with Planned Parenthood that allowed students to get work hours there. All this wound up going to court, or threatening to go to court, and all were dropped. But there was a lot of student and faculty uproar over it and Wolfe didn't handle it very well.
And then there were the racial incidents. Mizzou, like any large institution, gets it's fair share of wackos of all colors and the unfortunate fact is that racist acts on the part of a tiny minority of students is not uncommon. I know a number of people who went to school in Columbia and they all confirm it's happened for years. Usually what happens is that the administration wrings its hands, issues a sternly worded denunciation, host some kumbaya healing sessions, and the uproar subsides. Wolfe did nothing. There have been a few incidents over the past month and a half or so and Wolfe didn't make any attempt to smooth things over. Finally he said that the university would study the situation and promised results in April. For most of the faculty and the more vocal students that was the last straw and they blew the whole thing into the sh*tstorm that cost him is job.
So had Wolfe issued some politically correct platitudes or instituted some meaningless program then he'd still have his job. He didn't. He underestimated just how upset people are. And now he's looking for work.
Thank-you for the information about what brought about this recent incident over at Mizzou. IMHO, it is more than just racial issues, it is simply being just anti-free market systems and anything conservative.
About the previous President, the one that drove Sprint into the ground,is it the same Sprint that owned Virgin Moble or is it a seperate company now?
he’s a HE. he’s white. .
You're probably thinking about the Sprint merger with Nextel. Forsee was responsible for that and it was such a disaster that it's practically destroyed the company.
I’ve been hearing about these racial incidents for a couple of days now. Any links which actually name people and places??
Usually, what happens is they tell you to resign (and great things will occur when you do - salary for ten years, great benefits and a confetti parade) but if you don’t, they will fire you. Usually, this all precedes a prior board meeting (person of interest excluded) in which a vote is taken to fire that person. And nothing good will come from the resignation. Sadly, one never gets that confetti parade.
Can we say been there, done that?
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