University of Missouri President resigns for the protest against him for his racial slurs
by: Tristin Manus 8th period
The president of the University of Missouri resigned Monday with the football team and others on campus in a open protest over what they saw as his indifference to racial tensions/ slurs to his football players. For months and months, black student groups notified and revealed that Wolfe was unresponsive to the racial slurs he had said. The complaints came two days ago, when at least 30 black football players announced that they would not play until the president was gone. A graduate student went on a weeklong hunger strike. The school's undergraduate program population is 79 percent white and 8 percent black. The state of Missouri is about 83 percent white and nearly 12 percent black. In this same state, about 120 miles west, is Ferguson Missouri, where Mike Brown was killed in a fatal shooting by a racist police officer, which was the reason of the development of the #Blacklivesmatter movement which advocates the racial treatment of minorities by police officers.
Analysis: Racism is systematic. Simple as that. Racism is in the media, politics, education, just about everything. This school is an example of many universities, the coach/president of the university failed to acknowledge his white privilege, and haven't spoken about his actions relating to his treatment of his black football players. The Civil Rights movement never stopped, just escalated as the years went by especially in the category of police brutality. Racism is clearly seen in sports, which black males excel in, almost like a metaphor of slavery because they are usually the largest percentage of players in sports like football and make the most money to the white majority of sports team owners off of their talent. The media and the united states raised up our black men and put them into this little box, only telling them they can only excel in sports, entertainment and drugs, nothing academically inclining. We raise them to only limit themselves because we fear that they might be better than us and of course they are black, so we are intimidated by those factors too. Again, Racism is systematic.
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