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In response, Eric Striker, a black member of the Sooners’ football team, released an angry video on Snapchat that also went viral.
If there’s one thing University of Missouri senior Alanna Diggs thinks people are getting wrong about campus racism protests, it’s the assumption that they’re something new.
“I’m not particularly affected by it”, Smith said. “I’m surprised because it didn’t seem to be an issue”.
But Payton Head, the president of the Missouri Students Association, is challenging a narrative that has come to define the school as a hotbed of racism. On November 12, a group of alumni published an open letter in The Huffington Post expressing support for the student protests at Yale.
Over in Washington D.C., authorities at Howard University ramped up security after an as-yet-unidentified individual posted a deeply threatening racist message to the Internet forum 4chan last Wednesday night.
“There’s no doubt that racist incidents happen (in Chicago), but the black population here is more sporadic, but they’re one of the most active communities in the nation”, House said. “We all stood at the same time”.
One demand was met as Wolfe resigned, followed by Loftin.
“This university doesn’t exist in vacuum”, Pringle said. The state was split down the middle during the Civil War, and for the more than 150 years since, has often found itself at the center of raw debates over racial issues. “This isn’t something that came out of nowhere”. KU’s student make-up is 72 percent white and 5 percent black.
The data shows the norm on most of the campuses is a faculty that’s between 2 percent and 4 percent black. We are not heartless like you! It keeps you from doing your work.
“Black students do not feel that the Student Senate provides adequate representation, funding and support for their needs, ‘ the committee wrote after registering a 6-3 ‘no confidence” vote for Pringle, George and Moon.
“It is imperative that we hear all of our students and do everything we can to make them comfortable and safe”, Middleton said as he took over the interim presidency. “I don’t know how anyone else would have been able to handle everything he’s gone through”. I believe. I believe that. On Friday, Dr. Holloway was preparing his anxious staff for the possibility of a student sit-in. However, it took nearly forfeiting a sporting event to change everything, and this is where Wolfe, and society at large, failed not only the black students on college campuses everywhere, but also humanity as a whole. Remington Research is a polling firm owned by Jeff Roe, a Republican political consultant who founded Axiom Strategies, but it is an independent company, pollster Titus Bond said.
For a few students, safety has been an issue. A group of African American students interrupted the Mizzou homecoming parade wearing t-shirts that said “1839 Was Built On My B(l)ack”, referring the founding of the university and slave labor.
Sophomore Gabrielle Frank, who is black, attended last week’s town-hall meeting.
“The function, the very serious function of racism”, Toni Morrison has said, “is distraction”. “Right now the problem that people are focused on is just the all black one”.
“I don’t think any of us have ever seen anything like this”, Pearce said. “It’s gonna be, probably years from now, before we see actual full change in the system”, he says.
Why should we be surprised when an institution which for generations has taught minorities that they are oppressed, finds the most radical among them rise up and eat their indoctrinators?
The Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf, who has written on another Yale incident, has also critiqued what many are calling the “intolerance of student activists”.
“Asking them to step down is looking for a breath of fresh air, looking for a new source of leadership”, he said.
And on that subject, they want the heads of each dormitory, called “residential colleges”, to have their name changed from “master”.
But what I think is important in this situation is to give credit where credit is due. Both top officers of the university had to go because of how they, especially Wolfe, flagrantly mismanaged the issue of racial tensions which were tearing the university apart.
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“I wasn’t as aware of it before because I wasn’t a marginalized student”, Sroor said. “It’s made me sort of start paying attention to those things more”.
