Congrats MU - Jonathan Butler, football players, students and faculty
A special thanks to Jonathan Butler, the graduate student on a seven day hunger strike - his protest galvanized everyone else.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/black-us-student-goes-on-hunger-strike-after-swastika-drawn-with-human-faeces-a6726151.html
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The swastika appeared overnight, drawn with human faeces on a college dorm’s brand new white wall.
But the racial tension had been brewing for months.
Once ranked among the best places to live in America, Columbia has witnessed a flurry of racist incidents in recent months, culminating with the swastika scrawled in excrement on Oct. 24.
Now a graduate student says he is on a hunger strike and is willing to die unless the school’s president steps down.
“My body feels like it’s on fire,” Jonathan L. Butler, 25, told The Washington Post on Thursday night, four days into his one-man protest. “I have pain all over. I’m exhausted. Of course, I’m hungry. I’ve got an ongoing headache.”
Butler said he was just drinking water — no multivitamins, no painkillers — until University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe steps down. Butler and other black students blame Wolfe for what they say is the school’s failure to address the rising tide of racism on campus.
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