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Black Demands At Univ. Of Missouri

Mike

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Here’s the list in its entirety:

1. We demand that University of Missouri System President, Tim Wolfe, writes a hand-written apology to Concerned Student 1-9-5-0 demonstrators and holds a press conference in the Mizzou Student Center reading the letter. In the letter and at the press conference, Tim Wolfe must acknowledge his white privilege, recognize that systems of oppression exits, and provide a verbal commitment to fulfilling Concerned Student 1-9-5-0 demands. We want Tim Wolfe to admits his gross negligence, allowing his driver to hit one of the demonstrators, consenting to the physical violence of bystanders, and lastly refusing to intervene when Columbia Police Department used excessive force with demonstrators.

2. We demand the immediate removal of Tim Wolfe as UM system president. After his removal, a new amendment to thd UM system policies must be established to have all future UM system president and Chancellor positions be selected by a collective of students, staff, and faculty of diverse backgrounds.

3. We demand that the University of Missouri meets the Legion of Black Collegians’ demands that were presented in the 1969 for the betterment of the black community.

4. We demand that the University of Missouri creates and enforces comprehensive racial awareness and inclusion curriculum throughout all campus departments and units, mandatory for all students, faculty, staff and administration. This curriculum must be vetted, maintained, and overseen by a board comprised of students, staff and faculty of color.

5. We demand that by the academic year 2017-18, the University of Missouri increases the percentage of black faculty and staff members campus-wide by 10 percent.

6. We demand that the University of Missouri composes a strategic 10-year plan on May, 1 2016 that will increase retention rates for marginalized students, sustain diversity curriculum and training, and promote a more safe and inclusive campus.

7. We demand that the University of Missouri increases funding and resources for the University of Missouri Counseling Center for the purpose of hiring additional mental health professionals, particularly those of color, boosting mental health outreach and programming across campus, increasing campus-wide awareness and visibility of the counseling center, and reducing lengthy wait times for prospective clients.

8. We demand that the University of Missouri increases funding, resources and personnel for the social justice centers on campus for the purpose of hiring additional professionals, particularly those of color, boosting outreach and programming across campus and increasing campus-wide awareness and visibility.
 

loomixguy

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They may as well shut the place down.

If Missouri officials acquiesce to any of the "demands", a diploma from there will only be fit to wipe one's backside with.

The monkeys are trying to take over the zoo. Tragic.
 

Traveler

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I can't believe they're having any problems at all after 2 terms of their chosen one, Buckwheat. Perpetual victim mentality.
 

Mike

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Everything changed on American college campuses yesterday. A chill wind blew through every president and chancellor’s office.

A reign of terror commenced.

With the announcement that the chancellor and president of the University of Missouri system had been forced out of office, a new national paradigm of collegiate power was established. Its impact on an already tottering system of higher education is uncertain but frightening.

What’s the background: Black students, fueled by the professional protesting at Ferguson, felt slighted. They cited an incident in which the student-body president claimed he was called a racial slur, a swastika was drawn in excrement on the side of a building, and the unsatisfying reaction of the college president when black activists surrounded and detained him and his car during a homecoming parade.

Protesting became constant, a squatters camp was established, and the escalating rhetoric of racial anger grew louder and louder.

And school officials didn’t kiss the angry black ass just the way it wanted to be kissed.

So the president’s neck became the target.

And yesterday it was offered up.

And a lesson was learned.

Namely, that if you shout long enough and angrily enough, you can get anything you want. Further, the precedent is set that college presidents can be toppled for non-specific accusations of racial insensitivity – with racial insensitivity determined by the subjective rantings of a small number of anarchist activists.

The very nature of minority activism in America today is escalating dissatisfaction. No matter what is changed, offered or delivered, there is only a growing demand for more. The grievance is based less in reality and more in greed and bigotry. Blood in the water doesn’t satisfy a shark, it only makes it hungrier.

And the victory yesterday over the University of Missouri system will only inspire in activists today a lust for similar victories on other campuses. The trail has been blazed, and many will now follow it.

The new standard for campus racial activism will include a hammer that hangs constantly over the head of the president. Should a college leader not seem zealous enough in placating the complaints of minority activists, things could go Mizzou.

Every college administrator in America must have realized that yesterday.

As a consequence, minority activists have gained an ever larger role in determining the direction of American higher education. Saying yes buys a college president a season of peace; saying no could cost her her job.

The “progressive” nature of activism requires a constant upping of the ante, a pushing of the bar higher and higher. There is a competition among activists as each situation or person feels the need to outdo and surpass the other. If one marches, they all march.

And yesterday any number of activists on any number of college campuses set their sights on the president’s scalp. That has become the new gold standard of activist power.

In light of that, it should be noted that the basic posture of almost all minority activists on college campuses is discontent. It is hard to find a campus on which some committee does not have some grievance against some policy or percentage. A search of college newspapers and websites shows story after story about minority students complaining of one slight or another. There are a lot of people feeling disrespected.

And they mostly complain that the administration isn’t taking them seriously enough.

Which is what happened at the University of Missouri – and could easily happen at dozens of American colleges.

In a way, the colleges asked for it.

A haven of discontent with society for a generation, with hatred sometimes the unstated theme of a syllabus, it is only natural that colleges should be burned by the spark they flamed and fanned. When you teach people to be angry, you can’t be surprised when they become angry at you.

But somewhere the basic mission of education is jeopardized. When colleges become expounders of a narrow and angry anarchy, when the tail of racial and political activism wags the dog of genuine education, the system collapses and the society is damaged.

We need colleges, we just don’t need them to be like this.

We don’t need groups of shouting activists holding the reins of power.

But yesterday, that is exactly what they were handed.


- by Bob Lonsberry © 2015
 

Steve

Well-known member
it's all about white privilege, like the poor young student on the hunger strike... (sarcasm)

I doubt he missed any meals growing up..

Jonathan Butler played high-school football at Omaha Central High, where he won a state championship, and earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Mizzou, the newspaper reports. He is working toward a master’s degree in educational leadership and policy.

He is a member of a prominent Omaha family. The newspaper says that Butler's father is Eric L. Butler, executive vice president for sales and marketing for the Union Pacific Railroad. His 2014 compensation was $8.4 million, according to regulatory filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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