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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumscan somebody give me a quick tutorial on the Mizzou fuss?
Or point me to an explanation?
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can somebody give me a quick tutorial on the Mizzou fuss? (Original Post)
grasswire
Nov 2015
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LiberalArkie
(15,728 posts)1. Racism 101
DinahMoeHum
(21,809 posts)2. More perspectives, from The Nation magazine
DinahMoeHum
(21,809 posts)3. Yet another perspective, from ESPN. . .
http://espn.go.com/espnw/news-commentary/article/14091486/football-players-join-women-led-group-make-real-change-missouri
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The drivers of the Missouri protests have been black female students who helped formed Concerned Student 1950, an activist group that refers to the first year black students were admitted to the university. Students Ayanna Poole and Danielle Walker have been out in front demanding change, and Wolfe's ouster.
Walker, leading a "Racism Lives Here" protest on Mizzou's campus Oct. 1, shouted, "Let us be clear that until the administration takes a serious stance on racism on our campus, we will be marching until we are guaranteed justice.
"They say they are for the students. Well, we are the students."
Mizzou graduate student Jonathan Butler took his protest one step further by going on a hunger strike until Wolfe resigned. It was that hunger strike that moved the Mizzou football players to act.
"The players came to us because they wanted to take the initiative and give their community a better platform to fight injustices," Poole told me Monday. "They were first made aware [of the protests] by the hunger strike of Jonathan Butler and didn't want to see another black man suffer."
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The drivers of the Missouri protests have been black female students who helped formed Concerned Student 1950, an activist group that refers to the first year black students were admitted to the university. Students Ayanna Poole and Danielle Walker have been out in front demanding change, and Wolfe's ouster.
Walker, leading a "Racism Lives Here" protest on Mizzou's campus Oct. 1, shouted, "Let us be clear that until the administration takes a serious stance on racism on our campus, we will be marching until we are guaranteed justice.
"They say they are for the students. Well, we are the students."
Mizzou graduate student Jonathan Butler took his protest one step further by going on a hunger strike until Wolfe resigned. It was that hunger strike that moved the Mizzou football players to act.
"The players came to us because they wanted to take the initiative and give their community a better platform to fight injustices," Poole told me Monday. "They were first made aware [of the protests] by the hunger strike of Jonathan Butler and didn't want to see another black man suffer."
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loyalsister
(13,390 posts)4. Interactive Timeline: A Historic Fall at MU
This timeline is worth checking out. It's been brewing all semester.
http://www.themaneater.com/special-sections/mu-fall-2015/