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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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To: MinorityRepublican

61 posted on 11/08/2015 5:21:48 PM PST by JPG (What's the difference between the Rats and the GOPe? Nothing.)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

Mediocre, that is kind. They are 1-5 in their conference. Crappy is the proper word. Coach sided with players, idiot should be quietly looking for a new job as a high school coach or at an NAIA school.


62 posted on 11/08/2015 5:22:48 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Make sure they understand who is to blame. The idiot football player clowns who tried to take over the entire circus.


63 posted on 11/08/2015 5:27:08 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: DoodleDawg

Because it’s a business, this kind of rebellion must be put down. The SEC shouldn’t worry about Missouri but about which schools plural are next if this succeeds.

The message must be clear: you play to have a shot at the NFL. Refuse to play and you’ll be dumped and blackballed. What other school wants an instigator?

Oh. And coach should have already been fired and blackballed.


64 posted on 11/08/2015 5:27:11 PM PST by ziravan (Buck the Establishment.)
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To: fhayek

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

Same here. Let them sit it out. I bet there are some White players who would love to take their place.


65 posted on 11/08/2015 5:28:18 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: fhayek

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

Same here. Let them sit it out. I bet there are some White players who would love to take their place.


66 posted on 11/08/2015 5:28:25 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: DoodleDawg

Then give scholarships to Jr. College players immediately and field a team.
The current Missouri team is broken.

These current Missouri players signed a contract. And I’m certain the contract
does not give players a clause to replace the President and cause chaos.

What message will that send to other black players at other Universities
if you allow the inmates to run the prison.

The Missouri legislature can always vote to close the funding gap of
revenue lost.


67 posted on 11/08/2015 5:29:12 PM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance.)
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To: Sgt_Schultze
I have no doubt that the liberal female athletes utilizing Title IX scholarships are also supporting the walk out of the football team.

And if so, I want them to feel the consequences too of race-war extortion, for that's what this is. If the Mizzou football team refuses to play because their extortion demands are not met, I want the entire athletic dept to burn.

And then the ground salted.

This is race-war extortion. No white college administrator is safe if this extortion succeeds.

68 posted on 11/08/2015 5:29:42 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
"Missouri Legion of Black Collegians"

Didn't catch this at first...Legion is a group of 2000 demons in the Bible! Jesus cast them out into swine! These stupid kids are being driven by demons...
69 posted on 11/08/2015 5:32:44 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Enough with the white guilt!

I bet a dollar Black Lives Matter and/or Soros is behind this, one way or another. Whites are disproportionately robbed, beaten, and raped by blacks at this school, but somehow its blacks that feel self-righteously superior because of some “incidents” which may or may not have been perpetrated by whites.

I’ll take a shit swastika over being robbed, beaten, or raped any day. Kick the contract violators out of school or make them pay, fire any school official who sides with these black supremacists, and cancel the football season if necessary.

If not, plan on having this sort of manipulation happen from now on incessantly.


70 posted on 11/08/2015 5:33:18 PM PST by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Okeedokee. Wait them out. Why are they there? Not to get an education, but to get noticed by NFL scouts. Suspend them all and save the money.


71 posted on 11/08/2015 5:36:12 PM PST by Texas resident (The democrat party will destroy our country and they think it won't affect them.)
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To: choctaw man

They had one. His wife was doing one of the basketball players and they were all doing drugs with the head coach.


72 posted on 11/08/2015 5:37:00 PM PST by steve8714 (Pumpkin spice is made of PEOPLE!)
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To: OKSooner

I have been thinking of that very thing after talking to my brother who mentioned it.
That is one hell of an idea.


73 posted on 11/08/2015 5:38:46 PM PST by crz
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To: Mears

Let’ face it, they were admitted (most of them, anyway) only because of their athletic abilities. They are given spam courses for four years, just to keep them in the system so they’re eligible to play.

Many end up graduating from schools that put athletics first and can barely spell their own names. (Remember Dexter Manley?) They are sitting it out, waiting for a call from the NFL.

And it’s all sponsored by idiot alumni who fund the athletic programs rather than any scientific research. Those funds would far better be spent on academically rather than athletically gifted students.


74 posted on 11/08/2015 5:40:42 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: smokingfrog

CPUSA Agitprop operation.


75 posted on 11/08/2015 5:43:01 PM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I didn’t know Mizzou still played football.

Maybe they should spend he time sitting in class to learn something so they avoid membership and Black Lives Matter and actually contribute something to society.


76 posted on 11/08/2015 5:46:14 PM PST by big'ol_freeper (Ná tabhair shilíní le muca nó comhairle do amadáin)
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To: Paladin2
Have you seen them play?
77 posted on 11/08/2015 6:02:44 PM PST by TYVets
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To: Mears

I bet they are all getting a free ride as well.


78 posted on 11/08/2015 6:11:00 PM PST by funfan
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To: MinorityRepublican

Their season sucks ass. Might as well blame the University President.

IMHO he should suspend and reject all scholarships that reflect a negative image on the University.


79 posted on 11/08/2015 6:14:39 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: EDINVA

ED before we castigate all of college sports, the true argument is made that it funds academia.

These players know it but if they decide to eliminate their participation, they also know that they will be eliminated.


80 posted on 11/08/2015 6:19:05 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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