A History of Racism at the University of Missouri
BRENT STAPLES
NOVEMBER 10, 2015 11:26 AM
... Cynthia Frisby, a journalism professor, crystallized this history in the Missourian newspaper this week. In nearly 18 years at the university, she wrote, “I have been called the n-word too many times to count.” She recalled jogging along a road in May when a white man in a truck flying a Confederate flag stopped, spat at her, called out a racist slur and sped off ...
Racist mockery is something of a local sport. In 2010, two white students who scattered white cotton balls in front of the Black Culture Center during Black History Month were allowed to plead guilty to littering ...
Mr. Wolfe seemed not to grasp the nature of the problem and showed no aptitude for defusing it. His encounters with minority students were nothing short of disastrous ...
The new president can start by casting off euphemism and referring to the problem by its name. It’s not “race relations” or “racial insensitivity.” The malady that black people at Missouri have been describing for quite some time is racism.
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