Black Mizzou football players go on strike

The thing is, I see no evidence that the protest leaders had NOT seen the video before their tweets that night defending the process.

 

On the demographics of Mizzou and the wealthy elite from the St. Louis, very few from the Ladue/Chesterfield/Clayton suburbs go to Mizzou unless they are marginal students. If they're A students, they go out east, Ivy, Northwestern, Michigan, Wisconsin, Virginia or Stanford/Cal.

Which means that, of the affluent kids from St Louis suburbs going to Mizzou, you get Parkway, Oakville or Lafayette kids who aren't in diverse student bodies you see further east or north. For the rich kids, you'll get B- students from Ladue or Clayton who are academic underachievers but will probably thrive in the Greek system, sensitively and diversity be damned.

I would say the J-school may be the only subsection of Mizzou that is a national draw. I'm from Missouri (both KC and STL) but didn't go to college at Mizzou for this exact reason. I have family in Columbia and spent a lot of weekends partying there when I was in high school. If I would have gone to college anywhere in Missouri, it would have been Wash U.

Mizzou always struck me as a mediocre college, academically... with the exception of the J-school. Definitely a redneck vibe, between the small-town kids and the Camaro-driving suburban kids from South County of St. Louis.

 

Who cares if the kid's dad is a millionaire?

I'm not sure why that matters.

 

Well, it does kind of jump out that one of the demands of Wolfe was that he admit his white privilege.

Sort of the starving pot calling the kettle black, I would say.

 

So then I guess when Joe Morgan gets tackled at LAX by police who put guns to his head, or when James Blake gets taken down violently on the street in New York with no warning because someone thought he looked a little like a robber they might be chasing, those guys are rich so they shouldn't think they've been discriminated against.

That's kind of the point that people are trying to make. Nobody on campus saw the guy as rich. Everybody saw him as black and, according to him, treated him as such. As mentioned in my writeup of my history at the school, I do not find that supposition difficult to believe in the least.

 

butler has emerged in recent months as the center of the movement. He didn't start it and I'm not sure he knows exactly what to do with it.

 

A Columbia American Legion received a letter with death threats to white veterans.

Local organization receives death threat for white veterans | KOMU.com | Columbia, MO |

Also, KOMU twitter says there has been a threat of some kind and police are helping Concerned Student 1950 move their tents, but that might be weather related and not a response to a threat.

 

Isn't Wednesday supposed to have some kind of monster storm system in those parts?

 

Whether the kid specifically called out Wolfe for white privilege, he was the face of the group that did call him out. You do see how that makes this a little, uh, eyebrow-raising?

 

No. He remains black.

 

I see what you're saying.

I'll take my point for $500, Alex.