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Black football players at Missouri: We'll sit out until system president resigns
CNN ^ | November 8, 2015 | By Michael Pearson, Faith Karimi and Joe Sutton

Posted on 11/08/2015 4:24:03 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

(CNN)Black football players at the University of Missouri have joined calls demanding the ouster of the president of the state's four-campus university system over alleged inaction against racism on campus.

About 30 players made their thoughts known Saturday night in a tweet posted by Missouri's Legion of Black Collegians.

"The athletes of color on the University of Missouri football team truly believe "Injustice Anywhere is a threat to Justice Everywhere," read the tweet. "We will no longer participate in any football related activities until President Tim Wolfe resigns or is removed due to his negligence toward marginalized students' experience."

The players' move is the latest salvo in a spiraling debate over the experiences of African-American students at Missouri, who have complained of inaction on the part of school leaders in dealing with racism on the overwhelmingly white campus.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; diversity; football; jonathanbutler; missouri; multicuturalism; paytonhead; thugocracy; timwolfe; uofmissouri
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1 posted on 11/08/2015 4:24:03 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

They should be striking for higher wages.


2 posted on 11/08/2015 4:24:58 PM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

So sit out already. My care meter has not moved one Angstrom unit.


3 posted on 11/08/2015 4:26:59 PM PST by fhayek
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To: MinorityRepublican

They want a ‘person of color’ to preside over the university. I’d call it quits, take my pension and move to the north woods to escape this horse**** if I were prez of the university.


4 posted on 11/08/2015 4:27:27 PM PST by choctaw man (Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Let them sit out. Maybe the pro scouts will come down and watch them play in some pick up games at the Walmart parking lot.


5 posted on 11/08/2015 4:27:51 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Have you ever noticed that we don't have a "Battle Hymm of the Democracy"?)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Here’s a better idea. Let’s get rid of intercollegiate athletics! It’s just a disgrace how college athletic teams bring in a bunch of people who really don’t have the mental accuity to be there, prop them up so they can stay matriculated, so they can play this sport or another. Just how does that comport with what college is supposed to be about? Yeah, I know there’s a ton of money involved. Coaches make millions, and the schools count on TV revenue and all that BS. But none of it furthers the mission of a college education.


6 posted on 11/08/2015 4:30:32 PM PST by vette6387
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To: MinorityRepublican

Are they on athletic scholarships? If they are, they have contracts with the university, so they either play or they need to figure out a way to pay for their education.


7 posted on 11/08/2015 4:31:29 PM PST by kalee
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To: MinorityRepublican

Follow the money.
Who is the lead mouthpiece?
Who gave him the idea?
What is the exact accused infraction against the president? Any quotes or thought crimes?


8 posted on 11/08/2015 4:34:45 PM PST by CincyRichieRich (Some Animals are more equal than others.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Why don’t they just make like those Berkeley High School (Calif) kids, who walked out over SOMEONE scribbling some racist stuff on a school computer...

AND THE PERP TURNED OUT 2B A BLACK KID...??

Cuz, yeah, 90% of the time that’s how it turns out.


9 posted on 11/08/2015 4:35:58 PM PST by gaijin
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Canceling games will not be appreciated by the TV networks who are paying big bucks to broadcast them.


10 posted on 11/08/2015 4:37:21 PM PST by phormer phrog phlyer
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To: MinorityRepublican

Don’t just let them sit. Throw them out.


11 posted on 11/08/2015 4:38:00 PM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I hope the powers that be in Missouri don’t knuckle under to this crap.

Ferguson taught me all I need to know about some of the state’s residents.Apparently these idiots don’t know how lucky they are to be able to get an education(if they even care about that).

If the state caves it will happen again——and again-—and again.

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12 posted on 11/08/2015 4:38:39 PM PST by Mears
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Actually the whole team has joined the walk-out. Lord knows what the university president was supposed to do. But I doubt there is anything he could have done that would have made the students happy.


13 posted on 11/08/2015 4:38:45 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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Their season has been mediocre so far. If the players and coach do not show for the games, play the games anyway with what you have. Then sack the coach for a losing season. The players can be told that they have lost their scholarships and now must pay for the semester or be kicked out. Yes, it is hard*ss, but most of them will not make it into the NFL so they will need to get a job in the real world. And that will probably be their first lesson in the real world.


14 posted on 11/08/2015 4:38:54 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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Obama gets involved and starts making threats or he already has Loretta Lynch investigating


15 posted on 11/08/2015 4:39:57 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: DoodleDawg

The whole team? Fire them.


16 posted on 11/08/2015 4:39:57 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: MinorityRepublican
Fine. Cancel their “scholarships”. Make it on your own merits. Welcome to the real world. What a bunch of D-bags.
17 posted on 11/08/2015 4:40:54 PM PST by Polynikes (Ahh you teal de money. We talk to you den. Hombre - 1967)
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To: DoodleDawg

“Students” should really be in quotes.


18 posted on 11/08/2015 4:41:21 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Coach Pinkel supports this too. Here is what I'd like to see happen:

1) Fire Coach Pinkel

2) Terminate all the scholarships of the athletes who refuse to play.

3) Oust them from the SEC

4) If all this doesn't get Mizzou to field a team, then have the NCAA kill the program. End all athletic scholarships.

19 posted on 11/08/2015 4:41:25 PM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Will they be protesting every time a black intimidates, terrorizes, robs, assaults, rapes, or murders a non Black which happens daily? Don’t think so.


20 posted on 11/08/2015 4:41:27 PM PST by Sasparilla
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