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Title: Madness In Missouri: Football Is Not Worth America’s Future
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URL Source: http://www.vdare.com/articles/madne ... l-is-not-worth-americas-future
Published: Nov 9, 2015
Author: Paul Kersey
Post Date: 2015-11-09 22:50:23 by nativist nationalist
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Views: 8846
Comments: 52
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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#6. To: nativist nationalist (#0)
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I read the school would lose $1 million if they forfeited the game. If I were the president of the university, I'd remind the football players that they had a contract and if anyone refused to play and give 100% they'd lose their athletic scholarship. Any professor who joined the "strike" would get a similar messge. I'd rather be fired for bravery than quit because of cowadice.
And if you did that, you would quickly withdraw your statements because your lawyers would tell you that football scholarships at your school are regulated by the NCAA, not you, and that your attempt to use the scholarships in this manner would result in the NCAA suspending athletic scholarships at your school. That, then, would mean the loss of all of the revenue from football and basketball, and the death of your sports programs. The trustees would fire you on the spot for malfeasance. You do not control the scholarship process. They are not chits you can use to assert power. There are hundreds of millions of dollars in college athletics, and the NCAA and other very powerful organizations have control over the process to protect that money flow. As university President, you don't have the power to do what it is you say you'd do. So if you did it anyway, you'd just be a rulebreaker, and that would give them the pretext to throw you out for willful wrongdoing, and maybe even withhold various benefits from you. You wouldn't be fired for bravery. You'd be fired for breaches of contracts and willful malfeasance. Then you'd get sued. And you'd lose.
Uh-huh. And what does the NCAA say about a player on an athletic scholarship who refuses to play? "You'd be fired for breaches of contracts and willful malfeasance." Doesn't that descried the conduct of the striking players?
Perhaps, but they have millions of dollars that other people want to earn under their control, so giving them the stiff arm means losing tons of money. This is a capitalist society. Money talks. There are two elements in opposition: rainmaking football players who hold $25 million + and a program's future in their hands. And one replaceable college President who brings in peanuts compared to that. Where the valuable asset? The football team. So you make a business decision, oust the unit of lesser economic importance, and replace it (him) with something that will not disrupt revenue generation. You're making this about personal desire and honor and all of those quaint things that don't have much value in the American business model. Money talks, bullshit walks. Also, if you give the football players the stiff arm, you are likely to create the move by college players all across the nation to UNIONIZE, which they have the right to do. After all, they generate massive revenues and are paid little. And they can cut off the revenue stream. They very nearly DID unionize at Northwestern, and had to be given concessions to prevent it. A team stands up for something that bothers them, and you try to crush them, you could end up setting the whole cozy world of college football aflame, and in the end transfer hundreds of millions of dollars from schools and sports organizations to unionized players. It is so much easier to just replace a squeaky wheel college president than to risk so much money on some sort of testosterone-driven crapshoot over nothing. Money talks, bullshit walks. Capitalism in action. Labor can unionize.
The 9th Circuit Court just ruled recently that the football players do not have the right to unionize. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/01/sports/obannon-ncaa-case-court-of-appeals-ruling.html By MARC TRACY and BEN STRAUSS
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/01/sports/obannon-ncaa-case-court-of-appeals-ruling.html Well, if the athletes around the nation don't want to, that will stand. But if they see what happened in Missouri and taste the power that is there - the blood in the water - they may just go ahead, led by union organizers. OR the schools will fall backwards over themselves to make the athletes happy enough not to. The notion that the schools are going to "Hold the line" if the football and basketball players decide to unionize is ridiculous. Pro-ball tried to do that - hold the line - they failed. The problem is that the athletes have something that the schools need. Individually, athletes are replaceable. But united, they're not, and the revenue they bring is too great for the schools to live without. Of course, college athletes are young and looking ahead to bigger things, so if the schools treat them squarely, they won't unionize. What happened at Mizzou shows the latent power of having an irreplaceable asset.
Schools can hold the line because the players are not employees. That hinders their ability to form an employee union and collectively bargain for wages. They can refuse to play. The school can revoke their scholarship. It's a bit tough to transfer to another program as a troublemaker. With rare exceptions, the players will terminate their NFL ambitions. If they cannot afford to pay, they can leave school. If the union movement poses a serious threat, the conference can step in to share the expense of a college suspending its program for the remainder of the year. In 1987, the NFL regular players went on strike after week 2. Week 3 games were canceled. By week 4, the league fielded substitute players with about 15% of the regulars crossing the picket lines to play. The games counted. After three games with substitutes, the union players decided to end the strike.
I see that you are reflexively on the side of management, as one would expect from a typical Republican. Good luck with that.
#38. To: Vicomte13 (#34)
Good luck with that. Oh, did you ever miss the boat on that one. In fighting against management, it helps immensely to know what one is talking about and to know what management and a union can, and cannot do. The Air Traffic Controllers learned the hard way. This is rather akin to an argument I once had with a person who knew precisely how to defeat the entire criminal justice system. Everyone just refuses to take any sort of a plea and all cases are taken to trial. The system would just bog down under its own weight (sort of like illegal immigrant deportation). The system would not have the ability to handle all those trials in any reasonable amount of time. The backlog would be endless. It's a positively brilliant plan, don'tcha think?
Where do you get most of your information from? Books or studying things over the years? I feel a lot of people on the internet just do quick google searches and skimp lines while browsing.
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#10. To: misterwhite (#6)
If I were the president of the university, I'd remind the football players that they had a contract and if anyone refused to play and give 100% they'd lose their athletic scholarship.
#11. To: Vicomte13 (#10)
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"And if you did that, you would quickly withdraw your statements be be be be bec be because your lawyers would tell you that football scholarships at yo your school ar are regulated by the NCAA ..."
#15. To: misterwhite (#11)
Doesn't that descried the conduct of the striking players?
#19. To: Vicomte13, misterwhite (#15)
Also, if you give the football players the stiff arm, you are likely to create the move by college players all across the nation to UNIONIZE, which they have the right to do.
Court Strikes Down Payments to College Athletes
New York Times
SEPT. 30, 2015
#21. To: nolu chan (#19)
The 9th Circuit Court just ruled recently that the football players do not have the right to unionize.
#25. To: Vicomte13 (#21)
The notion that the schools are going to "Hold the line" if the football and basketball players decide to unionize is ridiculous. Pro-ball tried to do that - hold the line - they failed.
#34. To: nolu chan (#25)
Replies to Comment # 34. I see that you are reflexively on the side of management, as one would expect from a typical Republican.
#39. To: Vicomte13 (#34)
End Trace Mode for Comment # 34.
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