Black Mizzou football players go on strike

It's not about the job being hard. It's about "strong messages" not doing a thing.

 

You don't think that social pressure over the long run influences behavior? I think you're on the wrong side of that one.

 

The president erred by not doing the one thing good leaders do: pretending to care.

 

You are aware that there were protests in the '60s, correct? What do you think those were about?

 

Well, it's certainly solved racism.

 

Maybe it would. Maybe it wouldn't.

At a minumum, you'd think the administration would want to have an environment where everyone feels included and safe and that their voices are heard and deemed to be important.

 

It's significantly improved it over a number of decades.

 

About rich kids not wanting to be drafted

 

It hasn't solved it, but things are certainly better than they used to be.

 

We have those. They're not called universities, though.

 

That's not what Payton Head says.

 

So the real problem isn't that the president's actions did nothing to alleviate the alleged problem of racism on campus so much as he didn't placate the entitled students at the heart of this controversy enough for them to feel like their concerns were addressed?