The issue’s volatile mix of racial tensions, highly-publicized public protests, and debate over political correctness has thrust the school into the political spotlight this week after the university was rocked by renewed charges that school administrators failed to address simmering problems on campus.
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Trumps antipathy toward the Mizzou students should come as no surprise, since it was just last September when he declared during a Fox News interview that the Black Lives Matter members were “looking for trouble”. Republicans are against the student movement, and think the administration should do whatever they need to do to end the protests and teach the complaining students a lesson in fitting in instead of trying to change things. And over the weekend at least 30 African-American football players announced they would not participate in team activities until the university system president stepped down or was removed. Trump said the situation at Mizzou, in which increased racial tensions have spurred protests across the school’s Columbia campus, was “disgusting”, describing officials who resigned since students demanded their immediate leave as “weak, ineffective people”. “When they resigned, they set something in motion that’s going to be a disaster for the next long period of time”. “Trump went on to allege things can be much totally different if he have been of their position”.
“How we hire people like this…”
“We’re being a little bit too tolerant, I guess you might say, accepting infantile behavior”.
“Did you look at the demands?” he asked a Fox News host. Their calls for are like, crazy.
Trump said that protesters have made unreasonable demands, calling their demands for change “crazy”. “Their demands are like insane”. So it’s just disgraceful.
Marco Rubio said Thursday that he’s been so busy he hasn’t been following the controversy.
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson also criticized the race-related protests, which have been taking place on other campuses including his own alma mater, Yale University.
“As I understand it he didn’t respond to the legitimate concerns of these acts of racism on the campus and may have missed an opportunity to try to heal the wounds and get people the sense that the university had no tolerance for that”, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said while on the campaign trail in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It really ticked me off. You know, Dr. Carson was gonna be the commencement Speaker, the graduating class of the med school where he worked, Johns Hopkins.
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Frontrunner Hillary Clinton retweeted White House staffer Marlon Marshall.
