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gregory999
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 Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2015 8:53 pm Post subject: What's Happening at the University of Missouri? |
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What's Happening at the University of Missouri?
Criticism over how the University of Missouri handled a series of racist incidents on campus this fall has claimed the jobs of two top officials: President Tim Wolfe and Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin.
In September, Peyton Head, a senior and the president of Missouri Students Association, said he was called racial slurs as he walked near campus.
“I really just want to know why my simple existence is such a threat to society,” he wrote in a Facebook post.
That incident was followed by one on October 5 when members of the Legion of Black Collegians were called the N-word while rehearsing for homecoming festivities. Three weeks later, on October 24, a swastika was drawn with human feces at a university residence hall.
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/11/whats-happening-at-the-university-of-missouri/414870/
Anyone who thinks that racism does not exist in some American universities, should revise his mental status. |
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scot47
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| Who would think that ? |
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steki47
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| Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2015 11:41 pm Post subject: Re: What's Happening at the University of Missouri? |
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| gregory999 wrote: |
| Anyone who thinks that racism does not exist in some American universities, should revise his mental status. |
Some serious paranoia and hallucinatory behavior here. These "racial incidents" sound fake to me. The hysterical overreaction (hunger strike, football team refusing to play) of students shows a very immature attitude. Blackmailing profs is creepy. Ruining people's careers is reprehensible.
'Murica! (Don't miss you!) |
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buravirgil
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2015 2:24 am Post subject: Re: What's Happening at the University of Missouri? |
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| steki47 wrote: |
| Some serious paranoia and hallucinatory behavior here. These "racial incidents" sound fake to me. The hysterical overreaction (hunger strike, football team refusing to play) of students shows a very immature attitude. Blackmailing profs is creepy. Ruining people's careers is reprehensible. |
Blackmail? Immature?
The team had the support of the coaching staff. Teachers supported the walk-outs. Timothy Wolfe became Missouri's president after a career in software and technology sales. His prior experience was middle management for Novell, Attachmate, and prior to that sales at IBM. What did he know about running a group of state universities? His initial contract called for a $450,000 annual salary and $100,000 in bonus potential. He also gets free housing and a car or car allowance. He will live in Columbia on university grounds at Providence Point (although he said initially his family will continue to live at their home outside of Boston, Massachusetts). The editorial board of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch criticized the University of Missouri's Board of Curators for hiring someone with no professional experience in educational settings who needed a two-month "journey of enlightenment" to learn about each of the four campuses' needs. (Wikipedia) |
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steki47
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2015 2:55 am Post subject: Re: What's Happening at the University of Missouri? |
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| buravirgil wrote: |
| Blackmail? Immature? |
Black students complain the university is not doing enough to protect them from those evil White people. The incidents sound very suspicious and my money is on them being hoaxes (a recurring theme here). The KKK rumors were darkly humorous.
I would dismiss this as another temper tantrum but I fear this may be worse. |
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buravirgil
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2015 3:15 am Post subject: Re: What's Happening at the University of Missouri? |
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| steki47 wrote: |
Black students complain the university is not doing enough to protect them from those evil White people. The incidents sound very suspicious and my money is on them being hoaxes (a recurring theme here). The KKK rumors were darkly humorous.
I would dismiss this as another temper tantrum but I fear this may be worse. |
Okay, so you've ignored what I contested in your first post: That the boycotts and walk-outs were supported by paid employees.
But you're sticking by "blackmail" (instead of recognizing legitimate protest) to substantiate an opinion that anecdotes (you wager are contrived) have been "reprehensibly" leveraged by ?whom? exactly to destroy the "careers" of innocent executives.
Mainstream news (propaganda) at least acknowledges long standing tension versus the paranoid cartoon that is your framing. (CBS) |
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steki47
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2015 3:22 am Post subject: Re: What's Happening at the University of Missouri? |
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| buravirgil wrote: |
| Okay, so you've ignored what I contested in your first post: That the boycotts and walk-outs were supported by paid employees. |
No, I caught that point. Bit disappointed that employees are indulging this nonsense. More Whites grovelling. Great. |
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buravirgil
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2015 3:52 am Post subject: Re: What's Happening at the University of Missouri? |
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