Racism at University of Missouri is real, whether you believe it or not

Kansas City Star ^ | 11/12/15 | Jeneé Osterheldt

[madprof98]

For months, I have been reading about racism there. I didn't want to write about it. I was exhausted from the never-ending flood of injustice I see as I write about women's rights, #blacklivesmatter, marriage equality and more. It hurt to dive into the dynamics at the University of Missouri, where two students scattered cotton balls outside the campus Black Culture Center a couple of years ago.

[FourPeas]

I know what it is like to seek solidarity, to feel the harsh bite of inequality, to be judged and dismissed solely on my race and gender.

This precious little snowflake doesn't understand that she's judged and dismissed not on her race or sex (gender doesn't apply) but on her childish behavior and racist attitudes. Were she to behave as a reasonable adult, most would treat her as one.

[FourPeas]

Where is all this “white privilege” I keep hearing about?

It's an entry in the liberal playbook. Reality doesn't apply.

[cincinnati65]

There's no picture, but my understanding is that there was a police report taken, and that has been released, with the officer confirming there was a poop swaztica on the bathroom wall.

Who put it there is unknown, but I've accepted there probably was one.

[Twinkie]

Ha! I’ll wager that some kid simply accidentally dropped and
open bag of cotton balls while hurrying to get someplace or
the other on a windy day.

[cincinnati65]

The "cotton ball" incident was deliberately done to conjure up images of "black slaves picking cotton". The perpetrators were caught and admitted as much. The thought was that the students at the Black Cultural Center would have to "pick up the cotton".

The two said it was a "joke", but it was poorly conceived and childish. Just one of those stupid things college kids do.

[dfwgator]

Even their team name, “Tigers” is racist all you have to do is remove the “T” and add an “N” and another “G” and what do you have?

[dfwgator]

Jenee Osterheldt

Her grandmother was Dutch.

[centurion316]

Now that those of her ilk are running the University of Missouri, we can expect that the campus will soon look like just like that mecca of racial justice, the city of Baltimore. It will be a paradise.

[rockrr]

Thanks - that was what I was after. Somehow in all the articles I read I managed to miss that fact.

[rockrr]

Gateway Pundit covers the poop on the supposed swastika incident: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/11/breaking-university-of-missouri-releases-image-of-poop-swastika-in-bathroom/

[EBH]

There will always be racism, it is a natural state of mankind and has been for thousands of years.

[ShorelineMike]

Apparently there have been some cotton balls in Ms. Osterheldt’s woodpile.

[Cementjungle]

I got hit once with a snowball in college right after a group of us streaked though a sorority's formal party. 40 years later, and I still reel from that horrific display of cruelty imposed on me and my friends by those weenies who were attending the sorority party.

And then there was the water balloon fight on one warm Spring day... I tell you, it caused me a lifetime of PTSD induced stress. I lay awake at night, fearing that someday I will once again suffer the agony of having my tee shirt get wet from water from a bursting balloon.

College life is sheer hell... worse than any suffering mankind has ever experienced in the history of the world.

Certainly cutting a check to me for a few million bucks will help take some of the sting out of it, but that would only be a beginning in a long and hard healing process. I deserve total and complete reparations for the suffering I endured during my alcohol-fueled college days.

[Boris99]

The first time I saw the red headed professor calling for “muscle” my first thought was, why do you need to call for muscle? I thought women were physically equal to men in every possible way. I mean 37 year old mothers are breezing through Ranger school now, leaving male soldiers in the dust, and they are about to show the men how BUD/S is really done, so why are you calling for muscle?