Archive for 2016

THE SELDOM-DISCUSSED PREJUDICE: “Colorism” Within The Black Community. “But calling someone a tragic mulatto? White chocolate? Accusing someone of betraying their race because they are not marrying a black person? That’s fair game in 2016. And it shouldn’t be. People should be held accountable for their hatred, no matter who they are.”

THE WAGES OF IDIOCY: After Caving To Race Protesters, Mizzou Is STILL Trolling For Students For This Fall.

After attracting national attention as the site of massive race-based protests back in November, the University of Missouri is still — still — seeking enough freshman and transfer students for the fall semester — which begins in August.

The school’s continuing scramble to find student bodies to fill taxpayer-funded classrooms comes six months after last semester’s eruption of Black Lives Matter protests rocked the Columbia, Mo. campus.

The November protests by the Concerned Student 1950 group centered largely on Jonathan Butler, the son of a millionaire railroad executive. Butler went on a hunger strike and convinced 32 black Mizzou football players to boycott all team activities.

There was a poop swastika. There were false reports of people wearing Ku Klux Klan hoods. . . .

arlier this month, the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) published its annual list of all member schools that are still accepting applications for first-year or transfer students for next fall.

Mizzou is on NACAC’s 2016 college openings list. The school is still accepting freshman and transfer students, the organization says.

NACAC’s 2016 list of schools seeking students this late in the day is much longer than it has been in recent years. This year’s list contains well over 300 public and private schools. By way of comparison, notes Inside Higher Ed, NACAC’s 2015 list of colleges still seeking students in May contained only 225 colleges.

Life in the Education Apocalypse is tough. It’s tougher when you’re stupid.

MORE TROUBLES FOR MIZZOU: Mizzou Women’s Softball Team Says Title IX Is Killing the Sport: University of Missouri administrators forced the team to accept weak players, for equality. “Female athletes essentially claim that university administrators, citing Title IX, have forced the team to bring on under-qualified players. This has in turn reduced the amount of game time enjoyed by more skilled players. Why is Title IX the culprit? Administrators don’t want the federal government to accuse Mizzou of violating federal law, so they have to make sure the softball team is big enough. They don’t want it to look like the school is giving more support to the boys’ team than the girls’ team.”

RICHARD FERNANDEZ: GREETINGS, SLAVES.

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TEN YEARS AGO ON INSTAPUNDIT:

A “HATEFUL ANTI-WAR SPEECH” by Rep. Lacy Clay (D-MO) at a University of Missouri graduation provokes a near-riot, according to Gateway Pundit, who has a report and audio. Seems to illustrate the point made in this WSJ editorial about the Democrats’ penchant for self-marginalization and self-destruction: “We doubt all of this will help Democrats with the larger electorate, which whatever its doubts about Iraq does not want a precipitous surrender. Americans haven’t trusted a liberal Democrat with the White House during wartime since Vietnam, which is when the seeds of the current antiwar rage were planted. The great mistake that leading Democrats and anti-Communist liberals made during Vietnam was not speaking up against a left that was demanding retreat and sneering at our war heroes. Will any Democrat speak up now?”

PRIME MINISTER ZOOLANDER: Trudeau has further to fall. Much further. “I wrote back in the fall that voters might want to think twice before handing over the keys to a G8 nation to someone whose pre-Parliament resume consists mostly of dropping out of grad school multiple times. But the Liberal campaign convinced the people – and the people clearly wanted to be convinced – that their ‘JFK does reality TV’ leader was going to transcend politics as we knew it. Good luck delivering on that commitment.”

GEORGE WILL: Canned patriotism: Behind Bud’s ‘America’ shtick. “A beer bottle metaphysician at the brewer of soon-to-be America says, ‘We are embarking on what should be the most patriotic summer that this generation has ever seen.’ This refers to the once-in-a-generation, light-the-sparklers opportunity to choose between two presidential candidates roundly disliked by American majorities. It is enough to drive one to drink something stronger than beer. . . . Nothing says ‘It’s morning in an America that is back and standing tall’ quite like beer cans festooned with Americana by Anheuser-Busch InBev, a firm based in Leuven, Belgium, and run by a Brazilian.”