Posted on 11/11/2015 10:19:36 AM PST by magellan
Jonathan Butler, a central figure in the protests at the University of Missouri, is an Omaha native and the son of a railroad vice president, the Omaha World-Herald reports.
Butler refused food last week in a move to force the university system's president, Timothy M. Wolfe, from office. Wolfe resigned Monday and Butler ended his hunger strike.
He is a member of a prominent Omaha family. The newspaper says that Butler's father is Eric L. Butler, executive vice president for sales and marketing for the Union Pacific Railroad. His 2014 compensation was $8.4 million, according to regulatory filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Bill Ayers, please pick up the white courtesy phone...
The cookie starts to crumble .... as Lib “victim” cookies almost always do.
call me when any of them goes for more than a few hours without food.
I think this is one of those “hunger strikes” where they refuse food between lunch and dinner, and then hand-off to the next person who refuses food between dinner and a nice bedtime snack... etc.
Obviously hindered by racism all his life. Maybe he should be unhappy about ending up at Missouri rather than an Ivy League school?
What do you make of the mainstream press being all over this? My between the line reading is the libs are scared about this so they are actually doing selective journalism they normally reserve for conservatives!
Liberal guilt about being one of the “white privileged” youth.
Whining is SUCH an unattractive trait. No matter if you are two years old or in the process of educating yourself into middle age.
One of the “perpetual students” that haunt mega-universities today, never leaving to become useful or productive citizens.
It was rich kids on university campus’ that brought about the Russian revolution. It wasn’t ‘worker’ uprising.
This was no hunger strike - it was a liquid cleanse. Thousands of people engage in the same “strike” every week.
and why would the father not provide health coverage for his son? or is that the responsibility of the village?
Rush said he’s been there 7 years. Must like the place.
It will go right over the heads of libs. They will not be able to figure this one out.
Rush said he's been there 7 years. Must like the place.
I’d laugh, but Bluto became a Senator.
Who made the University President ‘resign?’ There is more going on here than we are being told.
I knew a minister who was getting his Mdiv at Harvard in the late 60s.
He told the story of being taken in by protestors prior to the occupation of a building, and how the leader– a rich kid who drove an expensive sports car– ran out the back door the minute it looked like anyone was going to get in trouble.
This minister said the lesson affected him profoundly and had lasted his whole life. Very few protestors were there on principle; most liked to make mischief, and let others take the heat.
Were I Mr. Wolfe, I would have invited the fellow for lunch. Every day.
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