The University of Missouri situation, explained

Correction: The video mistakenly refers to Jonathan Butler as Jordan – we regret the error.

[kilorat]

All of those examples of racism presented are from random racist assholes, how is any of their actions the fault of the faculty? That would have been a more interesting side of this to try to explain.

[ToxisLT]

sorry, I'm not from US, so I might be missing something here. But was the president himself painting shit swastikas and randomly screaming the n word to the students outside? Or were people doing this endorsed or congratulated by him? Has he promoted racist behavior? So why the the hell did he had to resign? What were his crimes? Was he a good administrator? I really fail to understand this, and your title was misleading, it said it should explain this case, but it just showed how bunch of entitled teenagers had 2 people fired by no apparent reason. And how much influence on random academics or administration people can your hand egg sports teams have.

[secularmonk]

The power of football money at colleges. That's the story.

That's not an uplifting message.

[TomHasVideo]

>students protest for change, school doesn't care obviously
>sports team contemplates not playing, school cares because these people are more important
This is not the future you wanted America, but this is the future you deserve.

[whytepirate]

The saddest part is these students missed the whole idea of what going to college was all about.

[Scofid]

wow guys, audio mix? you need better editors.

[OneOneNineFilms]

A school president doesn't have to share a story of social injustice on campus. He is not required to do anything but his job, which is to make the school run as efficiently as possible, and educate the students therein. Colleges are supposed to be safe spaces physically, you should not have the fear of being shot or robbed or killed or maimed. You are expected to be physically affected by course work, in the form of being tired after studying all night for an exam. You should expect to have your world view challenged, and you shouldn't be offended when a different point of view crosses your path.
Second, I would ignore protestors wearing a shirt clearly promoting black power and the black panther party, with the pan-African flag colors printed on it. They surrounded a car and were clearly not ready to have a discussion, they just wanted to put on a show.
Lastly, and most importantly, your right's end where another person's begin. This is HUGE for the B.S. student movement at mizzou against the media. Just because you have the right to walk forward does not mean you have the right to push someone out of the way. Your right to walk forward ends where their right to stand in a place begins. Thats why we have this social construct of walking around people, if we did not, New York and LA around 5 pm every day would get very interesting. Your rights are not any more important than any other person's on the planet, regardless of their perceived injustices or struggles, views, social status, gender, age, etc.

[tosius]

My contributions to the University of Missouri ended as of yesterday. To those who think they have won, congratulations.

[tinz]

Aren't these the same guy's who got upset because they weren't getting media coverage because of the Paris terrorist attacks

[Granite]

Legion of black collegians? Why make race groups to begin with?

[kaylamyers]

As a University of Missouri student, I have to tell you that, Vox, his name is Jonathan Butler, not Jordan Butler.

[trillmaticable]

It's about time the voices of our people are being heard. It's just sad that it took mostly the football team not playing for the college to acknowledge this issue. It's still not enough for this country to wake up and see the daily issues black people go through.

[jcgsnowman]

It's just embarrassing how ignorant these people are.

[austiniscoolduh]

let them not play, they'll just lose lmao

[behvac]

I still do not get it. Who is right and who is wrong. The hole thing looks like want to be 1960's

[ChristianProetti]

Vox, in the future you should spend some time researching your story so you don't waste your time creating inaccurate videos.

[jebu]

I can say as an Alumni how much of a disgrace this student body has been. No wonder Alumni contributions are so far down from the past. When will people learn that Social Media is not the way to solve problems. There were mechanisms in place and these students ignored them. Justice that is just takes time. You cannot just demand something on social media and expect it to happen. In this case it did and look at how bad thing are now. Nobody won ... except that all those students are almost gone now. It may have been time for some changes.. now its time for the students to "pull up the big boy pants" and be emotionally and socially intelligent!

[LarryDean]

I just caught up on all of the background of this. As to the ACTUAL deplorable acts, which were the use of racist terms and then the feces swastika, the chancellor, TWICE, and then the residence hall person, almost IMMEDIATELY responded with sentiment and/or action. And so did the campus police. SIGNIFICANT immediate action in the case of them announcing mandatory cultural sensitivity training for students and faculty!

But all that within-reasonable-range action and response wasn't enough for these misguided "activists" by a country mile. But nothing after that was genuine - everything else was nothing more than making up excuses to show your power as an activist who would act unreasonably as long as possible to get demands they wanted, including destroying the career of a guy who had nothing to do with it. I read all of the letters and demands, . These would-be Rosa Parks (except.. uh... no.. not even close) kept on with their tantrum until they got the symbolic head of the highest-office white-guy-in-charge. AND the head of the chancellor who was directly responsive and cooperative immediately!!!

Pretty disgusting display. Not in any way heroic. The President didn't do any of that racist stuff. But somehow the weight of "systemic oppression" is laid at his feet. First.. that phrase means almost nothing. WHAT is your point with using that phrase? That is societal, not a campus thing, unless you can prove much more specifics than you even attempted to allege, let alone prove. Never mind that the "hero" (HAHAHAHAHAHA) hunger strike guy was just some rich grad student.

Oh, but the rich hunger strike guy posts on his twitter about how love will conquer all. You didn't use love. You got a President and a chancellor unnecessarily removed her had a history of cooperating with you and were continuing to try. The only thing you wanted, for no known reason than apparently you wanted to be dramatic and show your power-through-unending-unreasonable-action, was for him to resign? Because his car, which he wasn't driving, bumped someone? I didn't see anything about any actual injury from that, and you guys blocked a parade in progress!

The ONLY thing you showed here was an ability to approximate the shakedown "activism" tendencies of Jesse Jackson.

Incredibly unimpressive, and utterly divisive ("I was admitted to a college in the United States, but it is inherently against me, so I will punish the institution itself until it bows to my immaturity and victim status!!")

Jackholes.

[foobars]

"The University of Missouri situation, explained" That was not the situation that needed explaining. That was the obvious one. What needs explaining was why protesters assaulted people who could get their message out. THAT is the situation which is confusing and needs explanation.

[barrygriffith]

Didn't anybody at Vox watch this video before you posted it?