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Posted on 01/21/2014 5:47:58 AM PST by Altura Ct.
Members of the University of Michigan Black Student Union said they would have to resort to “physical action” if a list of seven demands issued on Martin Luther King Day are not met within seven days, The Ann Arbor News reported.
“If negotiations are not complete we will be forced to do more, beginning to increase valiantly our activism for social progress and take physical actions on the University of Michigan’s campus,” said senior Shayla Scales to a group of students gathered on campus, according to the Ann Arbor News.
The seven demands, read aloud by an activist associated with the union after a speech by entertainer and activist Harry Belafonte, included calls for more control over the Black Student Union’s budget, more housing for lower-income students, a new multicultural student center, the requirement of classes teaching all students about the historical treatment of minorities, access to emergency scholarships for minority students, increased exposure to library materials and a requirement that 10 percent of the campus be represented by black students.
Besides the speech by Belafonte, who has recently compared conservative business leaders to the Ku Klux Klan at a rally for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, the social justice activist group By Any Means Necessary, which strongly advocates affirmative action policies, also rallied on campus, blocking traffic in the process.
Monday’s demands come two months after the Black Student Union began a Twitter campaign with the hashtag #BBUM. The hashtag, which stands for “Being Black at Michigan,” trended nationally and was a response to a campus fraternity’s plans to hold a “Hood Ratchet Thursday” party.
“The BBUM campaign, as difficult as it was to hear, has been incredibly insightful. We hear you, and we are making changes,” said University of Michigan president Mary Sue Coleman before Belafonte’s talk, The Ann Arbor News reported.
Coleman, along with school provost Martha Pollack, had issued a three-pronged approach to address diversity at the school. The school plans to implement diversity and tolerance programming beginning next year, according to another report from The Ann Arbor News. A student-faculty committee is also being set up to address campus diversity.
The school has been the center of many similar debates. The U.S. Supreme Court backed the University of Michigan law school’s affirmative action policies in a landmark 2003 case. But in 2006, Michigan voters overturned the law. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on that matter last October.
The percentage of black students at the school has declined since the 2006 vote. Black students made up 4.6 percent of the school’s student population in 2012, down from 6.8 percent in 2008, according to The Ann Arbor News.
Members of the student union who issued the seven demands for change would not specify what types of physical actions they planned to take, the Ann Arbor News reported.
Announce immediately that CCW holders are allowed to carry on campus.
Given a choice between vaporizing Ann Arbor or Detroit, Detroit could sleep easy.
Detroit is kind of an indifferent mindless parasite but Ann Arbor is an angry, self righteous, goal oriented parasite.
What do you mean? The school administrators are going to cave like Rosie O’donnell at a donut buffet.
As a U of M graduate school graduate my first demand is that all black students retract their names to no more than four letters and be at least pronounceable.
Now if they had been muslim terrorists or illegal Mexican wetbacks they would have been enrolled with full rides!
There is a man that would go out of his way to help these students. He would build them a school. He would help put them through college. He would care about their families. He would truly be a benefactor who would make a difference in your lives,
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Then you turn around and call Hermann Cain an Uncle Tom.
increased exposure to library materials
More free internet porn.
Seems like it. When I was in college, they held “library orientations” at the beginning of each semester, so that new students could learn how to use all the facilities.
Not enough dirty booty porno magazines?
It appears they think there's something in the library that would prove that the University had done something in the past that justifies these people's grievances.
I’m half-Irish and half Cajun (Acadian) by ancestry. So these worthless pieces of filth can kiss my royal (half) Irish ass. In the unlikely event they or their ilk show up in my area, I have a physics lesson for them that their alleged ‘University’ hasn’t taught them.
They are just following our government’s example...Send huge money abroad (foreign aid) to the 3rd world leaders in the hopes of pacifying them in the short term. Eventually those chickens come home to roost. Close the University or expel the rabble rousers.
It's got all the bad aspects of the East Coast transplanted to the Midwest, and none of the good.
LESS ACCOUNTABILITY !!!
Seconded. I’d be hard-pressed to control my impulse to bat such a person in their big mouth if they did that with my children, but I would control that. I’d stop at booting them from my house, with just enough time to gather their belongings from my front yard where I threw them. This is exactly the tactic the left uses in a broader way with other people’s children, going behind the backs of their own parents to encourage them to spit upon the principles their parents raised them to have. And in college, the parents get to pay for the “privilege” of having their children turned against them.
The country's worn sackcloth and ashes long enough. It's time for blacks to stand on their own merits... period.
They’ve got the highest percentage of taxpayer funded jobs in the state and have the nerve to look down on the rest of us.
Jackson tries real hard to be like Ann Arbor and just can’t pull it off. They’re a blue collar town and should embrace it.
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