If by 'comb multiple sites' you mean look at facebook, then yes. And the problem I have with Frisby's article is one I alluded to earlier - when you make weak arguments, they damage your strong one. I pass Ms. Frisby on her jog on my way to work several times a week. And as you no doubt know, on Route K you're as close to Ashland as you are campus. You can get to Midway more quickly than you can get to the quad. Because of this, students simply don't live down there. The odds that the person that accosted her was even a student are extremely remote but she felt the need to include this in her 'institutional racism' piece. Why? Sure seems like piling on to no effect to me.

Now, the faculty claim is a disconcerting one. However, unlike Reaper (and apparently you), I'm going to continue to ask for something before I take these things at face value. Did she really just not report it? If so, how can the University be held accountable? How does that have anything to do with racism in the system? Moreover, if she didn't report it, who was it? No harm in saying it now. I do view her statements with some degree of disbelief especially if there's no record of reporting and she's unwilling to go on the record. And if it did happen to her, surely it happened to others - they didn't report it either? If they did and the University didn't respond, there would be a record of that as well.

I'm done taking this stuff at face value. The Duke Lacrosse case, the Virginia rolling stones hit piece, the poostika - you folks seem to take everything people say as the gospel and I'm just done with that. I've said from the beginning - show me examples of instituional racism. Dr. Frisby has every opportunity to do so here - show me where the University was aware of this and did nothing because so far every documented case of racism that has been brought the the University has been met with a swift response.


A possibility - yes. But before I throw the University under the bus, I'm gonna need a hell of a lot more than 'a possibility'. I'm going to need to see anything at this point that shows the University had knowledge and an ability to address a situation that they simply ignored. 1950 is citing incidents that were either false or dealt with immediately by the University. Frisby has given us no reason to believe that the University ever knew anything. Butler is citing Ferguson for crying out loud.

This is my eyes rolling. The burden is on them to establish authenticity when they're making claims as serious as institutional racism.

Of course there's a lack of empathy - I already said that a great deal of this is a result of racism fatigue. We've been told for the last 7 years that disagreeing with the administration makes you a racist. If you thought that the Ferguson story didn't make sense as originally put forward, you were a racist. You're absolutely right - I'm fresh out of ****s to give when I get called a racist at this point. Prove something or go away because the race card is played out and it has done an exceptional amount of damage to race relations in this country. If you have someone without a racist bone in their body, that person is now just going to sit on the sidelines because they're tired of this crap. If you take someone that was even 1% racist, those feelings have increased tenfold. The 'movement' has been amateurish, hostile and more often than not flat out mis-guided.

I'm not getting there with Loftin - absolutely not. His ousting is a politically motivated hatchet job and nothing more. Wolfe I've already conceded may simply not have the right personality for this job. That said, his job as the President of the entire University of Missouri system (including the satellite schools) is not what many think it should be. He's the administrator. He's a behind the scenes guy that simply makes sure the trains are running on time. By most accounts, he did that job admirably. The problem is that he's not the politician that people also wanted him to be. I don't think that should be a job requirement for that role. Then again, Forsee was a little better at that and perhaps Wolfe simply didn't have enough of that. But being forced to resign because a bunch of hostile 20 year olds demanded it is wholly unacceptable.

It should be. When someone's leveling charges as serious as institutional racism and demanding scalps, the immediate reaction should damn certain be to confirm the credibility of their claims. Again, how many of these things have to be proven false on campuses around the country before you folks pump the brakes just a little before grabbing your pitchforks?

Teachable moment: Don't piss off the group of people that get to set the narrative. It's the press that came down here to shower adulation on the 1950 movement that turned against them. The press doesn't take kindly being told to piss off - that's a tale as old as time (or at least as old as the 1st Amendment). It's not just Breitbart that is setting the narrative here, every major media outlet is.

And still nobody has presented actual evidence of the institutional racism that they claim is so prevelant. No, I have not approached this as though the ideas have no merit (in fact, I took the poopstika on faith). What I did do, however, is look at each instance and the University response. I did rationally review them and can comfortably state that the University did attempt to address racial issues when they were brought to them. But 1950 decided that they simply weren't sufficiently enthusiastic in addressing them.

I most assuredly have not approached this as a fanatic - I've simply taken a step back and reviewed the incidents in question. Unlike Reaper, I'm not going to just say "well they said it happened, so it must have happened". Surely those lessons have been learned by now. But you're absolutely right, I'm calling out liberal academia and the PC police because it's kowtowing to their bullshit that has unfairly dragged the University and the city of Columbia into a national shitstorm that it never deserved.