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A History of Racism at the University of Missouri
Cynthia Frisby, a journalism professor, crystallized this history in the Missourian newspaper this week. In nearly 18 years at the university, she wrote, “I have been called the n-word too many times to count.” She recalled jogging along a road in May when a white man in a truck flying a Confederate flag stopped, spat at her, called out a racist slur and sped off.
And passersby in pickup trucks were not the only perpetrators: “I have had a few faculty call me the n-word and treat me with incredible disrespect. Yes, faculty.”
Racist mockery is something of a local sport. In 2010, two white students who scattered white cotton balls in front of the Black Culture Center during Black History Month were allowed to plead guilty to littering.
The campus was roiled again in December when an anonymous post on a social media site – likely written by students – read: “Let’s burn down the black culture center & give them a taste of their own medicine.”
Things stood thusly this fall when the president of the Missouri Student Association, who is black, reported that he was walking across campus when a group of men in a pickup truck yelled a racial epithet at him. Then last month, a swastika was drawn on a residence hall in human excrement.
The new president can start by casting off euphemism and referring to the problem by its name. It’s not “race relations” or “racial insensitivity.” The malady that black people at Missouri have been describing for quite some time is racism.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/taki...y-of-missouri/
