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Showing Original Post only (View all)Why Mizzou football players could be a game changer for student activism [View all]
Student activists around the country should try to connect with so-called "student-athletes".
These athletes are a sleeping giant. At a school like Mizzou, where just 7 percent of the students are black but a whopping 69 percent of the football players are, one can see how their entry in the struggle had a ripple effect that tore through Columbia and into the college footballcrazed national consciousness.
The multibillion-dollar college football playoff contracts, the multimillion-dollar coaching salaries, and the small fortunes that pour into small towns on game day dont happen without a group of young men willing to take the field. The system is entirely based on their acceptance of their own powerlessness as the gears of this machine. If they choose to exercise their power, the machine not only stops moving: It becomes dramatically reshaped.
It is also difficult to imagine the football players acting at all without the broader struggle on campus. The protests of students and faculty members whose names the public does not know is what laid the groundwork for the players to showcase their courage.
http://www.thenation.com/article/3-lessons-from-university-of-missouri-president-tim-wolfes-resignation/
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ellenrr
Nov 2015
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Tim Wolfe had raised tuition and slashed health benefits, while allocating $72 million for a new sta
ellenrr
Nov 2015
#5
On The Plantation The Product Was Cotton - At Many Universities The Product Is Sports
cantbeserious
Nov 2015
#3
because nobody cares about afirmative action when white people are underrepresented.
Travis_0004
Nov 2015
#27
How many middle eastern or asian students want to play football or basketball?
The2ndWheel
Nov 2015
#13
You never know. You are probably correct. But you still minimize Mizzou and what they accomplished
SaintLouisBlues
Nov 2015
#20
Yep, there are plenty of people that would have gladly taken the scholarships and played
SickOfTheOnePct
Nov 2015
#33
Based on their record, i assumed they were boycotting football games for a few weeks already.
Travis_0004
Nov 2015
#29