OT - CS1950 told to get over it

Good, but this should have been the first message to them.

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Wonder if they cried when they read it because their feelings were hurt

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Probably ran to their safe room, and enjoyed their butt hurt.

Exactly right and that's why changes have and must be made. In high leadership you have to squash small fires. We have been led by men who pretend like they are beyond putting them out and they grew so large they

1. Damaged our reputation

2. Enabled those with the victim mindset (which fuels them to further justify their reckless behavior)

3. Since they weren't proactive in hardly any sense of the word it left a grain of truth to the protestors arguments which they tried to expand to a mountain.

Well, to be fair the football team isn't on strike at the moment.

The previous admin's real misstep was to allow this nonsense to reach the point it did.

Isn't it strange that people have a problem with protesters that they can't relate to their issues or in other word don't give a darn about them, but they could relate to the protest in the link below and others like them. I stand by the protesters at Mizzou and I take my hat off to them for fighting for what they believe in.

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I have no issue at all with protesting. That's a freedom afforded us in this country, and I support their right to do so. It's some of the tactics I take issue with. The homecoming parade, IMO, wasn't the time nor place to stage a protest and shout black power slogans. That's a time of celebration for alumni and other stakeholders in the university. If they wanted to do something that weekend, there would have been other choices. IF they just wanted Wolfe's attention, there would have been other ways to get it. I feel like they chose that venue and that specific language for shock value and media attention. It seemed very different to me than the Civil Rights marches of the 1950s and 1960s.

And the demands are ineffective at this point. They're showing their immaturity. They are consumers of a product - an education at the University of Missouri. If they are dissatisfied with the product, they can take their business elsewhere. Demanding that hiring quotas be met, and money be spent for what amounts to segregation show me they lack a clear, achievable objective.

This is just my opinion. I abhor racism, it is evil. But these tactics are not designed to reach a positive solution, or even generate positive public opinion for their cause; just the opposite, I'm afraid.

You are spot on with The last portion of your post, but I'm not sure that acknowledgement and a willingness to work together is anything other than appeasement. Which, as you correctly stated, should have been the higher ups reaction from the onset.

I'm not black, and I don't know what it's like to be black. I also haven't been on campus as a student in 10 years. I do know this though. There are no more accepting, liberal, inclusive environments in this country than on the campus of a major state university. Mizzou is no different. In fact, it may be one of the more liberal spots you could attend. I'm not saying there are not racists or racist events, but if these folks can't make it through 4 years at Mizzou then I shutter to think how they'll be able to handle the rest of their life in the real world.

Maybe a bit more backbone and a few less safe spaces are exactly what these young men and women need.

He doesn't get a pass from me. In fact, from my perch, he shoulders the vast majority of the blame.

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It seems Wolfe could have learned an awful lot from Hanson, who BTW was a founding member of the legion of black collegians.

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I think that was Middleton, not Henson.