Chaim Amalek: “I love everything about this story. Also, that this university president proved to be so weak willed that he let himself be driven out under these circumstances tells us that his departure is no great loss for anyone save those who drove him out.”
* This Black-grievance controversy will benefit the Republican Party, especially in Missouri.
In the 2008 election, Republican John McCain defeated Democrat Barack Obama in Missouri by only 49.36% to 49.23%.
In the 2012 election, Republican Mitt Romney defeated Obama in Missouri by 53.76% to 44.38%.
Thanks to these recent controversies — Ferguson and the university football team — Missouri is becoming a rock-solid Republican state.
I think there will be many more Black-grievance controversies throughout the USA between now and the 2016 election.
The Republicans have an excellent chance of winning the 2016 Presidential election by a very decisive margin.
If Donald Trump is nominated, he will flip the entire Rust Belt into the Republican side.
* The march of diversity through our public institutions continues to destroy our public institutions one-by-one. Instead of Blacks learning how to live and thrive in an industrial society sponsored by those who helped create it, Whites can learn how to live and survive in the “hood” from Black university professors hired under affirmative action. It’s called reducing everything to the lowest common denominator.
If Missouri wants to reclaim quality education, it would have to fire the football coach and the faculty who walked out. It would have to expell the football players who went on strike.
The lesson learned: In this day and age, there can be dire consequences for an unknown person calling someone in an official victim class a name … at least as alleged by the person in the victim class.
It is now clear that I need to start saving money to send my grandson to a private university where he might actually learn something.
* Yeah, ya know its hell being a football players at a southern university. The chicks all ignore and deride you, the engineering students streak screaming through the library late at night while you’re studying hour after hour in a desperate bid to keep your scholarship. You struggle day after day in anonymity, playing in an empty stadium, unloved, unrecognized, your vital accomplishments in running with the ball or possibly preventing the other guy from running with the ball ignored by all. It’s unsurprising that somebody, somewhere supposedly saying a racial slur drove them over the edge. Especially when a cop 120 miles away had the temerity to not allow himself to be murdered sometime last year. How much can they take?
On a more serious note, god how awful is it that the left convinced most everyone that racial slurs are magical juju oppressing minorities. Now as long as anyone anywhere ever says one, or can be accused of saying one, well none of the ten trillion things that have been done to help minorities matter. Some powerless nobody said a magic word and destroyed all our efforts! The bastard! Most Americans believe in witchcraft, I guess.
In reality we just love specific insults–you tailor the insult for the individual you dislike, and we’ve got ones for every conceivable group or type of person. That’s the beginning and end of it. I’m sure slurs do bother loser groups more than non-loser groups in general, but cause and effect is reversed. It’s impossible to make me feel insecure about the accomplishments of white men cause white men are clearly collectively the best at doing approximately everything save running fast, jumping high and looking hot.
* Giving the football team the power to depose the university president sounds like a great idea. It’s hard to see how that could go wrong.
* It’s no surprise that Pinkel became a social justice warrior when Mizzou is 1-5 in the SEC. They only beat South Carolina (which is having a terrible year as well). Of the best SEC teams, Missouri only played Florida (and lost). They do not play Alabama or LSU. There are surprises every week in college football but there is no reason to suspect that Mizzou will win either of their remaining conference games against Arkansas or Tennessee.
It’s also not surprising that the players would latch on to a cause that lets them look like heroes instead of losers. Would Alabama’s players refuse to play if their university president did whatever Missouri’s president supposedly did? Not likely. Fans, including students, have very little patience for once-good football teams that are going to hell in a hand-basket. I know that Missouri did well in 2013 and 2014. That’s what makes it worse.
The interesting question is what the SEC will do, assuming that they can do anything. Does big time college football want the precedent established that players can refuse to play without repercussions? They would not necessarily need to organize as unions and have collective bargaining, etc. The main problem isn’t players on teams having miserable seasons whining about white privilege or whatever. What if really good teams or good players decide that they won’t play until they get a cut of the millions that they are making for their universities and conferences? Most players who are good enough leave college early and enter the NFL draft. Understandably, the vast majority of top players will take millions of dollars over college football glory in a second. So, while the best players will not jeopardize their NFL prospects over nonsense like what is going on at Missouri and good teams will not throw away their seasons, it would probably be a different story if the issue is money.
