Posted on Nov 10, 2015
Is the University of Missouri Racist or are the Students' Demands Racist?
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Let's trace the events that got the situation at hand to where it is.
Let’s trace back the events that led to this point:
August 9, 2014: Michael Brown is shot and killed in Ferguson.
August 16, 2014: MU graduate student Jonathan Butler (remember that name) attends Ferguson protests.
August 17, 2014: The first “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” protest is held on MU’s campus, led by Butler after his return from Ferguson.
August 16-18, 2014: Two Missouri students are arrested, detained for hours, and released without being charged or read their rights while attending protests in Ferguson.
August 24, 2014: Columbia is the first municipality in the state of Missouri to require body cameras on all police officers on patrol.
August 27, 2014: Protests continue on MU’s campus, with a silent “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” march completing without any violence.
December 12, 2014: MU students stage a “Die-In” protest at the Daniel Boone City Building in Columbia. Previously, all student protests had been on campus.
March 17, 2015: Racism protests begin to focus inward, as a heated campus forum is called with University Chancellor Bowen Loftin to address racial discrimination and hate crimes on campus. No specific promises on action are made.
September 12: Missouri Student Association President Payton Head claims in a Facebook post that he was harassed on the street by students in a truck yelling racial slurs at him. The MU administration took no public action.
October 5: The Missouri Legion of Black Collegians were subject to harassment with racial slurs on campus while rehearsing for a concert, and posted a letter to Twitter once again decrying the administration’s lack of action.
October 8: Chancellor Loftin announces mandatory online diversity training for students, faculty and staff.
October 10: A protest group known as Concerned Student 1950 (referring to the first year in which black students were admitted into MU) interrupts the Missouri Homecoming Parade to block President Tim Wolfe’s car, demanding he do more to address racism. Wolfe does not exit his car and police disperse the protesters. Concerned Student 1950 later demand Tim Wolfe’s resignation.
October 24: A swastika drawn in human feces appears on an MU dorm, for which no suspects have been named or arrested.
October 27: Concerned Student 1950 meet with Wolfe, who doesn’t budge on any substantive reform and refuses to leave office.
November 2: Jonathan Butler announces he will go on hunger strike until Wolfe resigns. Wolfe does not respond.
November 3: Wolfe releases a statement promising to work at change and increased tolerance, but does not address the hunger strike and refuses to step down. Sit-ins and boycotts of school products begin on campus.
November 6: Wolfe releases another statement expressing concern for Butler’s health (he was on day four of his strike at the time), regrets for not exiting his car during homecoming, and again refuses to step down. Later that night, he is confronted by MU students at the university’s St. Louis campus, where he claims that systemic oppression is “because you don’t believe that you have the equal opportunity for success.” It didn’t go over well:
November 7: The black players on the MU football team (about half the roster) announces their intention to strike if Wolfe does not step down.
November 8, Wolfe released a statement that "change is needed" and offered to release a plan in April 2016 to accede to demands for diversity. Chancellor Loftin offered to require diversity re-education for students and faculty in January 2016. However, student groups and protests were only emboldened as a result.
November 8, Wolfe steps down.
November 9-10 Students continue to protest.
Now after reading this what do you think of the situation? Are the students behaving the way we want our future leaders to behave, regardless of color?
Let’s trace back the events that led to this point:
August 9, 2014: Michael Brown is shot and killed in Ferguson.
August 16, 2014: MU graduate student Jonathan Butler (remember that name) attends Ferguson protests.
August 17, 2014: The first “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” protest is held on MU’s campus, led by Butler after his return from Ferguson.
August 16-18, 2014: Two Missouri students are arrested, detained for hours, and released without being charged or read their rights while attending protests in Ferguson.
August 24, 2014: Columbia is the first municipality in the state of Missouri to require body cameras on all police officers on patrol.
August 27, 2014: Protests continue on MU’s campus, with a silent “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” march completing without any violence.
December 12, 2014: MU students stage a “Die-In” protest at the Daniel Boone City Building in Columbia. Previously, all student protests had been on campus.
March 17, 2015: Racism protests begin to focus inward, as a heated campus forum is called with University Chancellor Bowen Loftin to address racial discrimination and hate crimes on campus. No specific promises on action are made.
September 12: Missouri Student Association President Payton Head claims in a Facebook post that he was harassed on the street by students in a truck yelling racial slurs at him. The MU administration took no public action.
October 5: The Missouri Legion of Black Collegians were subject to harassment with racial slurs on campus while rehearsing for a concert, and posted a letter to Twitter once again decrying the administration’s lack of action.
October 8: Chancellor Loftin announces mandatory online diversity training for students, faculty and staff.
October 10: A protest group known as Concerned Student 1950 (referring to the first year in which black students were admitted into MU) interrupts the Missouri Homecoming Parade to block President Tim Wolfe’s car, demanding he do more to address racism. Wolfe does not exit his car and police disperse the protesters. Concerned Student 1950 later demand Tim Wolfe’s resignation.
October 24: A swastika drawn in human feces appears on an MU dorm, for which no suspects have been named or arrested.
October 27: Concerned Student 1950 meet with Wolfe, who doesn’t budge on any substantive reform and refuses to leave office.
November 2: Jonathan Butler announces he will go on hunger strike until Wolfe resigns. Wolfe does not respond.
November 3: Wolfe releases a statement promising to work at change and increased tolerance, but does not address the hunger strike and refuses to step down. Sit-ins and boycotts of school products begin on campus.
November 6: Wolfe releases another statement expressing concern for Butler’s health (he was on day four of his strike at the time), regrets for not exiting his car during homecoming, and again refuses to step down. Later that night, he is confronted by MU students at the university’s St. Louis campus, where he claims that systemic oppression is “because you don’t believe that you have the equal opportunity for success.” It didn’t go over well:
November 7: The black players on the MU football team (about half the roster) announces their intention to strike if Wolfe does not step down.
November 8, Wolfe released a statement that "change is needed" and offered to release a plan in April 2016 to accede to demands for diversity. Chancellor Loftin offered to require diversity re-education for students and faculty in January 2016. However, student groups and protests were only emboldened as a result.
November 8, Wolfe steps down.
November 9-10 Students continue to protest.
Now after reading this what do you think of the situation? Are the students behaving the way we want our future leaders to behave, regardless of color?
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SGT Dave Tracy
What I would like to see is more evidence, and less assertion before we demand actions for events that: A. May or may not have happened; B. That if it's shown an incident did occur, that perpetrators CAN be identified; C. Perpetrators BE held accountable; D. That the punishment fit the offense.
Did things happen there as alleged? I would assume things happened, i wasnt there, and no one seems to bother with backing up all these claims. What I don't want to see is athletic departments being able to hold colleges hostage; people going off half-cocked just because someone makes a claim-particularly an unsubstantiated one (no matter how heart-felt); less manditory group-think demanded on our nation's campuses from people who believe anyone who disagrees with them needs to be removed and lose their livelihood after being made to confess their "sins" against the "correct" orthodoxy. All this we just saw.
Did things happen there as alleged? I would assume things happened, i wasnt there, and no one seems to bother with backing up all these claims. What I don't want to see is athletic departments being able to hold colleges hostage; people going off half-cocked just because someone makes a claim-particularly an unsubstantiated one (no matter how heart-felt); less manditory group-think demanded on our nation's campuses from people who believe anyone who disagrees with them needs to be removed and lose their livelihood after being made to confess their "sins" against the "correct" orthodoxy. All this we just saw.
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SSG John Thornton The author of the attached article refers to Ferguson and I referred to it in my timeline, that may be why. I would also like to correct an error the article is perpetuating. The Black Lives Matter movement didn't happen because of Michael Brown's death as it stated. The Black Lives Matter movement began as a result of Trevon Martin who was killed by George Zimmerman (neighborhood watch participant not a police officer). That said, I hope the two of you can agree to disagree and move back to talking about the question that started this thread. Is the University of Missouri Racist or are the Student's Demand's Racist? I hope everyone takes time to actually read through what their demands are. In today's news the student organization is vowing to continue rallying and protesting even through two key figures resigned (one met all of the demands made) and the University has put in place a Civil Rights attorney (professor) to oversee the issues they said need to be addressed. I'm not sure what the University can do at this point.
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CDR Kenneth Kaiser
This is a mixed bag. Michael Brown was no angel and he had committed a crime. Michael Brown may have had an effect on the University and some of the subsequent on campus if proven would contribute to the unrest but the way it is being resolved leaves the perception that we are raising a generation of victims. All of us have experienced adversity. The service presents opportunities for it all the time, but as service members you deal with it in a reasonable way not through riots and unsupported demands. Demanding the resignation of the President because he had not resolved events that extended over a two month period does not seem reasonable. Especially when the grievances extend to events in Ferguson or demonstrations by the group Hands Up don't Shoot, a group that has been discredited. The president cannot influence those events. I can tell you this, I hope parents or the students are not paying much or their tuition, because their degree will not have much value. I do not think companies will be lining up to hire their graduates because of the reputation associated with the actions on campus. That is a shame especially for the ones who have been working hard.
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The students are ridiculous. Come on, on what grounds are you demanding that the president of the college leave? He made no racist comments? He had no scandal? I don't understand what they expected him to do! Did they expect him to don a "Black Lives Matter" hoodie because some drunk redneck used a racist slur at a party? They pretty much demanded that he be replaced with a black president. Maybe I'm all turned around, but isn't that kind of racist?
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Capt Jeff S.
No double standards. Blacks should own up to their racist behavior and quit whining about every perceived injustice. Based on what I've read so far, the incidents appears to have been instigated by blacks. For example, the blacks were standing and blocking the road making unreasonable demands. They then jump in front of the University President's vehicle and claim he ran them over. It's nothing but a big lie. The whole hands up don't shoot meme is based on falsehoods. I could fill this page with hundreds of links to incidents where blacks have horribly mistreated whites. That doesn't make good press though because it screws with the narrative that all blacks are victims of white privilege. If you want to see injustice, see what is done for the white victims of black oppression.
http://www.sullivan-county.com/racism/strong.htm
http://www.infowars.com/shock-video-black-couple-beat-white-woman-wrong-hood-bitch/
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/08/five-arrested-for-brutal-attack-on-white-teen-by-racist-black-mob-video/
http://mrconservative.com/2014/08/47502-white-man-beaten-with-hammer-by-4-black-men-in-ferguson-mo/
... ad nauseum. I think you get the idea.
Now blacks are demanding more diversity in the faculty at Yale. Ivy League Yale prides itself on the superior academics and performance of its students. The school's reputation is everything for prospective graduates. What happens when scores drop because they had to swap the best qualified teachers for lesser qualified teachers in order to fill a racial quota? The students end up being the biggest losers! They pay a very high tuition and if the quality of education goes down, they lose. Companies don't care how much you paid for your education. They want to know what you know and can do for them. If all you learned how to do at school is protest and make demands, your job prospects aren't going to be all that bright. You will have spent tens of thousands of dollars on a worthless education.
Shouldn't the school have the right to fill its staff with the best qualified candidates -- regardless of race?!! The same folks whining about diversity don't say diddly when it comes to the NFL and NBA representing the cross section of our population. With blacks only 13% of the total, one would expect to see a lot fewer blacks playing on these professional teams. Sooo if the sports teams can seek out the most qualified, why can't the University staff?!!
As for the BLM Movement, ALL Lives Matter!
http://www.sullivan-county.com/racism/strong.htm
http://www.infowars.com/shock-video-black-couple-beat-white-woman-wrong-hood-bitch/
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/08/five-arrested-for-brutal-attack-on-white-teen-by-racist-black-mob-video/
http://mrconservative.com/2014/08/47502-white-man-beaten-with-hammer-by-4-black-men-in-ferguson-mo/
... ad nauseum. I think you get the idea.
Now blacks are demanding more diversity in the faculty at Yale. Ivy League Yale prides itself on the superior academics and performance of its students. The school's reputation is everything for prospective graduates. What happens when scores drop because they had to swap the best qualified teachers for lesser qualified teachers in order to fill a racial quota? The students end up being the biggest losers! They pay a very high tuition and if the quality of education goes down, they lose. Companies don't care how much you paid for your education. They want to know what you know and can do for them. If all you learned how to do at school is protest and make demands, your job prospects aren't going to be all that bright. You will have spent tens of thousands of dollars on a worthless education.
Shouldn't the school have the right to fill its staff with the best qualified candidates -- regardless of race?!! The same folks whining about diversity don't say diddly when it comes to the NFL and NBA representing the cross section of our population. With blacks only 13% of the total, one would expect to see a lot fewer blacks playing on these professional teams. Sooo if the sports teams can seek out the most qualified, why can't the University staff?!!
As for the BLM Movement, ALL Lives Matter!
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