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Black Mizzou football players go on strike

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Big Circus, Nov 7, 2015.

  1. So what exactly is the college president supposed to do? Besides, resign?
    What does the president have to do with racial incidents? As near I can tell nothing. But students, either feeling frustrated and/or empowered are going to flex the PR muscles and try to have someone with NO involvement in the situation removed?

    I really, really don't like college kids.
     
  2. Vombatus

    Vombatus Well-Known Member

    Wannabe Gandhi.
     
  3. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    Redneckum Revelio!

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  4. JohnHammond

    JohnHammond Well-Known Member

  5. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    Pinkel just tweeted a picture that he stands with the players.
     
  6. SnarkShark

    SnarkShark Well-Known Member

    Exactly what I was going to say.
     
  7. SnarkShark

    SnarkShark Well-Known Member

    Can't wait for the pending passive-aggressive opinion from Dick about the hashtag campaign.
     
  8. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    I've got to say, something about the feces swastika seems so over the top, that it sounds like a hoax.

    Reminds me of this:

    Tawana Brawley, a popular 15-year-old high school student, was found Nov. 28 curled in a fetal position inside a plastic bag behind an apartment house in Wappingers Falls, six miles south of here.

    Miss Brawley, who is black, had been beaten. ''Nigger'' and ''KKK'' had been written in charcoal or marker on her torso, feces had been smeared across her body and her hair had been chopped off, the police said. She later told her family and law-enforcement authorities that she had been abducted and sexually assaulted by six white men - one of whom wore a police badge.

    On Nov. 21, Alphonso Smith of Peekskill, N.Y., who is black, was chased down a road on the outskirts of the community by three bat- and pipe-wielding white men before being picked up by a passing motorist, the police said. Five days later, a large cardboard box placed beside his family's home was set on fire, causing damage to the house. There were no injuries. Anger and Protest

    And on the night of Nov. 22, several black and Hispanic inmates at the Orange County Jail in Goshen, 15 miles south of here, held a protest, in part over what they said was too much heat in their cells. The State Commission of Correction is investigating whether white correction officers then shouted racial slurs and wrapped their heads in white towels or linen to represent the Ku Klux Klan and whether they used excessive force to quell the disturbance.

    These three cases have touched off protests among angry blacks living in the Mid-Hudson Valley, protests that have been joined by people from other parts of the state and the nation. These critics said the cases highlight the difficulties encountered by blacks in suburban and rural communities.


    Bias Cases Fuel Anger Of Blacks
     
  9. Big Circus

    Big Circus Well-Known Member

    Was two extra explanatory posts not enough?

    Also:

     
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  10. SnarkShark

    SnarkShark Well-Known Member

    Yeah, my bad. Was catching up.
     
  11. Big Circus

    Big Circus Well-Known Member

    And I was overly harsh. Let's hug it out.
     
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  12. exmediahack

    exmediahack Well-Known Member

    The situation absolutely calls for Michael Sam to spring for this outfit and bring peace to Jesse Hall.

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