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Title: Madness In Missouri: Football Is Not Worth America’s Future
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Published: Nov 9, 2015
Author: Paul Kersey
Post Date: 2015-11-09 22:50:23 by nativist nationalist
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Capitulation, self-abasement, groveling—are the words even strong enough to describe the actions of Tim Wolfe [Email him] president of the University of Missouri, who has just resigned because of pressure exerted on him by what amounts to a black lynch mob? [Tim Wolfe, University of Missouri System President, Resigns, by John Eligon, New York Times, November 9, 2015] The Chancellor of the University, R. Bowen Loftin, has also been forced out. The power of social media, a climate of extreme white guilt, the moral hegemony of black issues in America, and the leverage a football team has over a sports-mad community, forced Wolfe, a white man, to resign his position of authority because of incidents he had no hand in creating [How the Missouri football team just took down its university president, by Philip Bump, Washington Post, November 9, 2015] Hilariously, the 4-5 Missouri Tigers football team wasn’t entirely united in threatening to boycott the upcoming game against BYU unless Wolfe resigned. One white player has been quoted as saying: “”As much as we want to say everyone is united, half the team and coaches—black and white—are pissed. If we were 9-0, this wouldn’t be happening” [Missouri player says many on team don’t support practice boycott, by Sheldon Richardson, ESPN, November 9, 2015]. Had Missouri been in contention for an SEC East title, you can bet your life savings the team would never have joined the Social Justice Warrior campaign to unseat Wolfe. Witness the complete lack of interest in holding the program accountable when its players were accused of rape last year, which the Tigers finished as champions of the Eastern Division [Missouri Football’s Rape Culture “And So On And So Forth” by Jessica Luther, VICE.com, September 9, 2014]. But what exactly forced Wolfe to resign? Well, it smells like just another campus hoax of the type that the Cultural Marxist Left regularly uses to advance its goals of dismantling “white privilege” a.k.a., ultimately, Western Civilization itself: Racial tensions at the campus have been rising over the last several months. Last month, an excrement-smeared swastika was on a dorm’s new white wall was the catalyst for a hunger strike initiated by Jonathan L. Butler, a 25-year- old graduate student. “I already feel like campus is an unlivable space,” Butler, who is African American, told the Washington Post last month. “So it’s worth sacrificing something of this grave amount, because I’m already not wanted here. I’m already not treated like I’m a human.” In addition to the swastika incident, Payton Head, the Missouri Students Association president and an African-American, said he was racially abused as he walked on campus. That incident triggered a student protest when university officials did not address it for a week. Last month, a student yelled the N-word at members of the Legion of Black Collegians in a campus plaza while they were rehearsing for a play. [Why Missouri football players are going on strike; university president won’t quit, by Cindy Boren, Washington Post, November 8, 2015] That’s it? Seriously? What type of reprobate would use feces to draw a swastika but a lunatic Leftist aiming to stampede the administration into making concessions to their anti-white demands? What are the odds that Jonathan Butler was himself was responsible for the act that he claims motivated him to start his hunger strike because of the campus is “an unlivable space?” This sort of thing has happened many times before—back in 2004 Sam Francis wrote that At San Francisco State, the [LA Times] reports, two black students scrawled racial epithets in their own dormitories and then claimed “white racists“ did it. At Northwestern University, a Hispanic student claimed someone grabbed him, held a knife to his throat and called him a bad name. At Claremont College a professor claimed her car was smeared with anti-Semitic slogans. Police say in all these cases the perpetrator was the alleged “victim”. Even more absurdly, Payton Head, the black student who claims to be the victim of racial pejoratives, serves as the Missouri Students Association president and was even the 2015 Mizzou Alumni Association Homecoming King. If he’s been oppressed at Missouri, he certainly continues to fall upward. The kicker for questioning Head on the veracity of being called a “n*gger” comes courtesy of his resume: When senior Payton Head was in high school, he never won anything. He applied for his homecoming royalty court all four years and never made it once on top 10. That’s why when he heard his name called as the 2015 Homecoming king at Faurot Field, he froze. “It was really, really a shocker for me to win,” Head said. “I was just thrilled to be on court and serve with such incredible people. Any one of them standing next to me I thought would’ve made an amazing homecoming king or homecoming queen. It was baffling. I didn’t know what to say.” This was the Missouri Students Association president and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. member’s first time participating in Mizzou Alumni Association’s Homecoming. He had been involved in the Legion of Black Collegians’ separate homecoming celebrations since his freshman year. In fact, he ran for LBC count as a freshman and lost that too. Head has been an activist for social change since he stepped foot on MU. He joined the Social Justice committee as a freshman — then, it was called the Multicultural Issues committee, but Head changed the name during his sophomore year to reflect the current goals of the committee. Under his leadership, the MSA Social Justice committee was nominated for an Inclusive Excellence Award by the MU chapter of the NAACP and as the Coretta Scott King Organization of the Year in 2014. [Homecoming King Payton Head talks involvement, social justice and inclusivity: Head’s participation in the Mizzou Alumni Association Homecoming came a cost as he missed the Legion of Black Collegians’ Homecoming events., TheManEater.com, October 20, 2015] (Wait! How come black students at Missouri (79 percent white and 8 percent black) get to have their own, racially-exclusive homecoming event…ah, fuhgeddaboutit.) Note that Head didn’t immediately go to the campus police and report the offense—even though Mizzou police and administrators have a record of reacting to offenses against Political Correctness with unbridled hysteria. Instead, he took to social media and project the encounter, to trigger Social Justice Warriors nationwide. It worked: The first time someone shouted a racial slur at him on campus, Payton Head was shocked, a little stunned. He grew up on the south side of Chicago in a black community where he was used to being in the majority. He had never had direct racism thrown in his face before. The second time it happened to him, Head said, he was walking with a friend to get cookies Friday night when a red pickup truck slowed and young people screamed the n-word at him. But Head is now the president of the students’ association at the University of Missouri. So he knew what to do: Tell people. They listened. His social-media post had been shared well over 1,000 times within a few days, the Columbia Missourian newspaper spread it as well, and the responses were more than he could keep up with. Many people thanked him for speaking out, with comments like, “Preach, baby, preach!” A spokesperson for the campus police said that the incident was reported to have happened near campus, not on it. The Columbia Police Department does not have a report of that nature by Head, according to a spokesperson there. Head thinks his account resonated so widely because “this story is not just something that happens here. It’s not a Mizzou issue. It’s a societal issue. And very few people are privileged to have the voice to speak up that people will listen to.” [What the student body president did after he was called the n-word — again, by Susan Svrluga, Washington Post, September 16, 2015] There exists literally no proof that Head was called the dreaded N-word at all, save for his decision to go to Facebook and tell the entire world about it. But in a country where it is racist to even question his claim (there is no burden of proof, because as a black male, Head is beyond rebuke), the poop swastika incident and the 2015 Mizzou Alumni Association Homecoming King’s claim that he was called the N-word have whipped up a storm that has cost the white president of the university his job...for starters. All the insanity of life in 2015 America is on display in this episode. I’ve long argued that college football is the opiate of America. We must find a way to break this addiction. The future of the country our children will inherit is far, far more important than our alma mater’s performance in any game. 
Black protesters celebrate their victory over the University of Missouri.
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#1. To: nativist nationalist (#0)
But what exactly forced Wolfe to resign? Well, it smells like just another campus hoax of the type that the Cultural Marxist Left regularly uses to advance its goals of dismantling “white privilege” a.k.a., ultimately, Western Civilization itself: At San Francisco State, the [LA Times] reports, two black students scrawled racial epithets in their own dormitories and then claimed “white racists“ did it. At Northwestern University, a Hispanic student claimed someone grabbed him, held a knife to his throat and called him a bad name. At Claremont College a professor claimed her car was smeared with anti-Semitic slogans. Police say in all these cases the perpetrator was the alleged “victim”.
Capitalism. Let's be clear: he didn't resign over the black protests. They were going on, and he was ignoring them. He resigned because the football team went on strike. Every football game brings $5 million or so in revenue to a school of that size. That's coin enough to pay the salaries of 12 Wolfe's. And the school would still have to pay the $1 million or so per game contract fee if they didn't play. So, the school would be laying out millions of dollars to other schools for all of the missed games. 5 missed games, $25 million in revenue, and $5 million in fixed costs that you have to spend. That's a lot of coin, and a lot of people very interested in that coin. When the football team went on strike, that was the end of the road, because THAT meant REAL MONEY, RIGHT NOW, and the players were irreplaceable. Universities are capitalist organizations, enmeshed in a very capitalist game of football, that generates massive revenues for a large number of people. What goes on in chem lab and math class is interesting, and maybe someday some of those students will take their place as drones of science or business. But football is big business, big revenue, big capitalism, right here, right now. A football team strike means millions of dollars in payouts by the school, and tens of millions in lost revenue, RIGHT NOW. There is no way to replace the football team on a dime. The players are the game, and therefore, if the players strike, they have the power. We've seen it in the major league strikes. The millions - or billions - in lost revenue are so traumatic for everybody that eventually management has caved over time. Players have more power now than ever before, not because management gave it out of the goodness of their hearts, but because the players are irreplaceable, and when the players stop playing, the gravy train of millions of dollars stops flowing for everybody. In capitalism, money talks, and football players are the SOURCE of millions of dollars. A university President is easily replaced. A million dollars paid out for a game that doesn't get played means $4 million in lost profits in four days, and another $4 million a week after that. Wolfe's salary was somewhere around $450,000 a year. You can find somebody to sit in that chair in a week. But the football players can't be replaced so quickly. In capitalism, money talks, bullshit walks. All of the politics and protests were meaningless. But when the guys with their hands on the spigot of $5 million a week turned off the spigot, the capitalists jumped and the politics and image and all of the other principles were immediately swept aside. This is a capitalist country. Money rules here. And on campus, football and basketball are the big money, the profit center. If the football or basketball team strikes, the other "principles" are always less important than the $5 million bucks a week: because this is a capitalist country, and in the end, money is the most important thing in our government, in our politics, on our campuses, and to most of our people. What, exactly, forced Wolfe to resign? The football players strike, to the tune of $5 million a week. That's what. Everything else is noise. Money talks, bullshit walks.
And the school would still have to pay the $1 million or so per game contract fee if they didn't play. So, the school would be laying out millions of dollars to other schools for all of the missed games. Couldn't they revoke the athletic scholarships for any "striking" player and field a team of anyone willing to suit up? This cave in just invites more "strikes" for whatever perceived complaint. It's like the Air Traffic Controllers. Reagan fired the lot of them and no group of ATCs has followed their example.
It's like the Air Traffic Controllers. Sure. Major League Baseball tried that. It failed calamitously. Trouble is, there are only so many athletes who are really good enough to play, and the schools are all in competition for them, and the sports - football and basketball - bring in tens of millions of dollars to the schools every year, more than any other thing. Alumni giving is keyed to games. Professional baseball owners were very greedy, very arrogant, and thought they had all the power, so they took your approach. The fans hated it, because the second string wasn't any good, and it showed. It was backyard league baseball. People did not want to pay Major League prices to go and watch the second string. So they didn't. They didn't go. They didn't watch. And billions of dollars were being lost. On what principle, EXACTLY? "I am king shit on turd mountain, and I will concede you NOTHING!" Very well, then LOSE BILLIONS, asshole. That's what it came down to. Baseball players are just men with families. They have millions. They'll do just fine if they don't get more. But MLB, and the Sports stations, the whole multi-billion dollar industry, it LIVES on the games. And the people could see the obvious difference between the second string and the real players, and they went and did other things rather than pay to watch crap. In the end, the owners had two choices: lose billions and go out of business, or concede lots of power and money to the men who make it possible for baseball to happen: the players. They did what capitalists do: they struck a deal. They decided not to commit economic suicide, which is what "standing up to the players" and conceding nothing meant. The players control the most important commodity in the game: the fans. People are fans of players and the big game. They don't love the owners or the organizations. They pay big money to those organizations to see what they want, and what they want is good baseball by the top players. That costs a lot of money - more money than the owners were willing to play. But in the end, the owners had no choice. They had to back down and concede a lot, because without the players, there's no baseball. That's the bottom line. So it's not at all like the Air Traffic Controllers. ATC doesn't bring in the cash. They're just traffic cops of the air. They are replaceable. Top athletic talent is not so easily replaceable. It's a rare commodity. And it is AWARE that it is a rare commodity. Collegiate athletes are not currently unionized, but they could be. And if they did, the colleges would lose in the end just as Major League Baseball lost and Pro Football and Pro Basketball and all of the various owners' leagues that have tried to retain iron fisted control over the talent. Truth is, the OWNERS are replaceable. All they are is money, and money is utterly fungible. Athletic talent is a gift from God, and it's a lot rarer than money. Athletes want to play. And they get benefits from it. But if you don't treat them square, they can strike, and when they do, they win because they are the only pieces of the equation that has what cannot be replaced. Air Traffic Controllers don't generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues, and they are replaceable. Athletes do, and they're not.
The strike by some players of the Missouri football team had nothing to do with the way they were treated. They broke their contract with the school. They should be kicked off the team and lose their scholarship (if they had one). Not all the players wanted to strike. They should be able to find 11 who want to play.
#32. To: misterwhite (#30)
Wouldn't it be great if you got to set the terms of the discussion in the world, the metes and boundaries within which people must remain? There are video games in which you can do that. I highly recommend them for you, because the real world is going to keep frustrating you and pissing you off, because people don't accept your rules, don't believe in them, won't obey them, and when they have the strength in various areas, they will will make the rules for themselves.
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Good post
#9. To: rlk (#1)
But what exactly forced Wolfe to resign?
#18. To: Vicomte13, rlk (#9)
Every football game brings $5 million or so in revenue to a school of that size. That's coin enough to pay the salaries of 12 Wolfe's.
#20. To: nolu chan (#18)
Couldn't they revoke the athletic scholarships for any "striking" player and field a team of anyone willing to suit up?
#30. To: Vicomte13 (#20)
"Athletes want to play. And they get benefits from it. But if you don't treat them square, they can strike, and when they do, they win because they are the only pieces of the equation that has what cannot be replaced."
Replies to Comment # 30. The strike by some players of the Missouri football team had nothing to do with the way they were treated.
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