Unfortunately BLM is not really bulletproof. Tonight there have been a number of online threats made against black Mizzou students and the Mizzou activist group ‘Concerned Students 1950’ in the wake of the resignation of President Tim Wolfe over allegations that Wolfe has ignored repeated pleas by black students to do something regarding acts of racism that have occurred on the Columbia, Missouri campus. Wolfe’s resignation was a demand made by former Mizzou student Johnathan Butler who started a hunger strike to protest the racist atmosphere he felt was prevalent on campus and was subsequently supported by the black members of Mizzou’s football team. Later most of the team, both black and white as well as the coaching staff supported a boycott of all athletic activities, including playing Brigham Young University this coming weekend.
Now it would appear the hardheads hardliners is upping the ante:
xRIGHT NOW @Mizzoupic.twitter.com/lLs07zMcA9
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) November 11, 2015 xUPDATE: A student at @Mizzou receives confirmation from police officials that the threat is REAL. #BlackMizzoupic.twitter.com/SjhKBU6poq
— clai noir. (@Jayveri) November 11, 2015What is the threat? Well some moron took to the MIzzou’s social media to announce that he/she/it was ‘standing their ground’ and was going to shoot every black person they see on campus tomorrow.
xMORE THREATS @MIZZOU. Wtf are you going to do to protect your black students who pay to attend YOUR institution? pic.twitter.com/T9UJTYqP3B
— Johnetta Elzie (@Nettaaaaaaaa) November 11, 2015A bomb threat was called into the Black Cultural Center where black members of the Missouri State Legislature was meeting with CS 1950 to discuss how to improve race relations on campus. The BCC was then put on lockdown.
Black kids are now leaving the campus tonight.
xOur executive members are more than willing to pick up anyone feeling unsafe or threatened on campus. PLEASE reach out to us! #Mizzou
— Mizzou Democrats (@mizzoudems) November 11, 2015And then there is this:
x@iJesseWilliams Texts from a friend at #Mizzou. pic.twitter.com/AlcncGdcun
— Rhiannon (@xokatic) November 11, 2015In case you don’t know, Greek town is a place black students don’t DARE be caught in at night and it’s been this way for YEARS.
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This is wholly unacceptable to me. I never thought I would be reliving what occurred on the University of Alabama and Mississippi’s campuses in the 1960s. I didn’t think that we would be rewinding the clock to Little Rock Arkansas either.
What the hell is Governor Jay Nixon doing? Or more pointedly, why the hell isn’t he doing something like RIGHT NOW?
You can call out the National Guard on a bunch of protesters in Ferguson, but you got the Klan and other angry, misguided ‘students’ threatening to kill black students tomorrow to the point that the only thing they can do is run for their lives?
Something needs to change in this country because the hell if I’m going to relive the hell of the Jim Crow 1960’s again.