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If you study the new "interim" President's words carefully . . .

The school at the focal point of the current crisis, the University of Missouri, hired an interim system president on Thursday afternoon. Mike Middleton previously attended Missouri as a student and also served as a faculty member and administrator. Middleton, who is black, said he felt marginalized "every day" in each of those roles.

"It's so subtle," Middleton said. "I think women understand it. I think people with a sexual orientation that is not a male-centered perspective on sexuality understand it. I think other people of color understand it. I think folks in power, in the majority, who have never lived it and have never experienced it have difficult understanding it the way those of us who have been minoritized do.

"But it is just the feeling of not being heard, not being respected," he said. "Being placed at the margins of what's really happening in the world. And it happens inadvertently. Nobody is really to blame for this.

. . . you come to the conclusion that he feels that only women and people of color can understand the "systematic racism" that pervades American society.  "Nobody is really to blame," except of course the former UM system President and the Chancellor.  It's so "subtle" that you really cannot trust any white male to hold a position of power and influence in our society because they just don't understand. 

As I warned in my first post on this topic, the precedent of this protest successfully ousting Wolfe would be very dangerous.  Now students from other universities and colleges are joining the party and making their own lists of demands.

The vast majority of faculties at American universities and colleges have been teaching and pushing this "social justice" agenda for decades.  They have tamped down opposing opinion and suspended Freedom of Speech rights on campuses.  Now everything they have created is blowing back on them with a vengeance.  It is these universities and colleges that will suffer the first wave of the wrath of the protestors.  It brings to mind "the dog that bites the hand that feeds him" and "the chickens coming home to roost."

This is primary a sports board with an emphasis on college football.  When players from UM football team chose to join the protest and refused to play unless their demands were met, it put in jeopardy the institution of college football.  I genuinely fear that this movement has the potential to strike a severe blow to college football as we know it.  It might even result in an astrix besides the name of team that wins this season's National Championship.  Since we are still in that hunt, it may affect Stanford football.

[martyup]

If you study the new "interim" President's words carefully . . .

The school at the focal point of the current crisis, the University of Missouri, hired an interim system president on Thursday afternoon. Mike Middleton previously attended Missouri as a student and also served as a faculty member and administrator. Middleton, who is black, said he felt marginalized "every day" in each of those roles.

"It's so subtle," Middleton said. "I think women understand it. I think people with a sexual orientation that is not a male-centered perspective on sexuality understand it. I think other people of color understand it. I think folks in power, in the majority, who have never lived it and have never experienced it have difficult understanding it the way those of us who have been minoritized do.

"But it is just the feeling of not being heard, not being respected," he said. "Being placed at the margins of what's really happening in the world. And it happens inadvertently. Nobody is really to blame for this.

. . . you come to the conclusion that he feels that only women and people of color can understand the "systematic racism" that pervades American society.  "Nobody is really to blame," except of course the former UM system President and the Chancellor.  It's so "subtle" that you really cannot trust any white male to hold a position of power and influence in our society because they just don't understand. 

As I warned in my first post on this topic, the precedent of this protest successfully ousting Wolfe would be very dangerous.  Now students from other universities and colleges are joining the party and making their own lists of demands.

The vast majority of faculties at American universities and colleges have been teaching and pushing this "social justice" agenda for decades.  They have tamped down opposing opinion and suspended Freedom of Speech rights on campuses.  Now everything they have created is blowing back on them with a vengeance.  It is these universities and colleges that will suffer the first wave of the wrath of the protestors.  It brings to mind "the dog that bites the hand that feeds him" and "the chickens coming home to roost."

This is primary a sports board with an emphasis on college football.  When players from UM football team chose to join the protest and refused to play unless their demands were met, it put in jeopardy the institution of college football.  I genuinely fear that this movement has the potential to strike a severe blow to college football as we know it.  It might even result in an astrix besides the name of team that wins this season's National Championship.  Since we are still in that hunt, it may affect Stanford football.