The resignation of the University of Missouri’s president and chancellor over racial issues was almost predictable.
We’ve seen intimidation in its many forms of late. We see it in our schools across the nation. Administrators buckle to someone who opposes prayer at a football game, or someone who is offended by a tee shirt with an American flag worn by a student.
(Cartoon courtesy of Steve Benson, The Arizona Republic)
We saw the Occupy Movement disrupt cities. The so-called “99 percenters” blocked sidewalks, camped out in parks and defecated in the streets of New York while the Democrat mayor supported them.
The spate of racial incidents can be traced to Ferguson, Missouri, when President Obama sent his attorney general, Eric Holder, there in response to the actions of a white police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black man. And, we heard crazy claims of oppression and disenfranchisement.
Members of Congress and the St. Louis Rams fell for the “hands up, don’t shoot” line, a lie. (thenationalpatriot.com)
We saw members of Congress and the St. Louis Rams fall victim to the lie – “hands up, don’t shoot” – that came out of the Ferguson shooting. A president who was elected in 2008 to unite America has divided us. It’s why the resignation of the University of Missouri’s president and chancellor over racial issues was almost predictable.
We’ve seen intimidation in its many forms of late. We see it in our schools across
We saw the Democrat mayor of Baltimore refuse to let her police force do its job during the riots there, in an ill-advised attempt to avoid another Ferguson.
We saw the rise of racism in Charleston with the rush to remove the historic Confederate battle flag after the church shooting.
We saw a steady increase of those with smart phone cameras trying to capture police officers carrying out their duties in an effort to catch them in an abuse of power.
We saw the birth of the “Black Lives Matter” movement and its verbal assault on police. The result has led to a police force understandably not-so-ready to be the first responders.
The accompanying editorial cartoon by Steve Benson in The Arizona Republic says it all. When 30 members of the Missouri football team went on strike, the coach and the remaining team members of course caved. Their list of demands is ludicrous.
The predictability of this happening at a major university is high when one considers the liberal atmosphere that exists there. Earlier this year, however, a couple hundred students at the University of Michigan attempted to stop the showing of the film, American Sniper, on campus because it projected “negative and misleading stereotypes” of Muslims. Coach Jim Harbaugh announced that he would view the film with his team and if anyone was offended, “then so be it.”
When are the rest of us going to stand up to intimidation by handfuls of individuals?
