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On November 9, 2015, after continued protests on the campus of the University of Missouri, one of the major demands from protesters was met. President Tom Wolfe resigned his position. We here at R3 wanted to collect some reflections of this event from our readers. If you would like to share a reflection or thought, please email us at rhetoricraceandreligion@gmail.com or reach out to us on Facebook <\/a>or Twitter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

It is paradoxically interesting that so many people cannot define systemic oppression and systemic racism, yet will argue for why Mizzou\u2019s president stepping down was harsh, or why racism isn\u2019t as bad as \u201cthose\u201d \u201csensitive\u201d people make it out to be, or why we live in a post-racial world where colorblind ideology will save us if we can just stop talking about race and focus on our similarities. Those of us who experience this everyday can smell your lack of knowledge, understanding, and bullshit miles away. If you can\u2019t speak the language, STOP TALKING AND LISTEN!-<\/span>Amber Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n

Journalism is dead, and its body is already being covered over by pay walls and elite narratives. Oh, sure, we\u2019ll have these \u201cconversations\u201d every once in awhile \u2014 something will circulate through social media that allows all of the First Amendment armchair quarterbacks to parade out their righteous indignation and talk about how \u201cjournalism is just in their blood.\u201d But give it a couple of days and folks will go back to not caring. And they should. When these protests were breaking, nobody turned to the big media outlets. We turned to\u00a0<\/span>\u202a#\u200e<\/span>ConcernedStudent1950\u202c<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>Marginalized people don\u2019t need you to tell their stories. They can tell them just fine without you. And anyway, as one of the protesters noted, \u201cYou\u2019d just get it wrong anyway.\u201d-<\/span>Amanda Nell Edgar<\/a><\/p>\n

As proud as I am (and I am VERY proud) of\u00a0<\/span>\u202a#\u200e<\/span>Mizzou\u202c<\/span><\/a>, I see it as an indictment on every apathetic black person who refuses to bond with the revolutionary potency of black unity.\u00a0<\/span>There is NO established institution in the U.S. that does not owe its existence, in part, large or small, to the black people of this country. So please stay off my TL with pseudo-congratulatory\u00a0\u202a#\u200e<\/span>Mizzou\u202c<\/span><\/a>\u00a0posts that posit that economics is THE ONLY way to propel change in social action. It\u2019s over simplistic and myopic.\u00a0It took weeks of poignant protest, concerted confrontation, and engagement with numerous public sources, who responded with international support, to have the fortitude and credible potency to make that threat and make it sufficiently catalytic to force change.<\/span><\/p>\n

Folks, this is a multi-frontal war. We have been attacked on every side. It will NOT be won solely and directly by monetary means. Think bigger.\u00a0<\/span>You don\u2019t want to do right? We will shut this whole institution that is the American project DOWN!-<\/span>T Max McMillan<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Surreal: Watching Jonathan Butler receive tweets from white \u201callies\u201d stating that they\u2019re \u201cpraying and camping out for him in solidarity\u201d when said allies, supposedly understanding the system that is oppressing Black Mizzou students should have been the ones using their privilege & placing their bodies in distress to bring attention to the racism on campus. Again, it took the students with the most to lose (the Black Mizzou football players and Concerned Student 50) to stand up for justice. The events on the Missouri campus reflect how the majority of White Christians think the call to stand against racial injustice is kumbyaya prayer circles and camp outs in solidarity. Jesus wept.\u00a0<\/span>\u2013Joseph Boston<\/a><\/p>\n

This ain\u2019t gon\u2019 be popular, what I am about to say! \u2014 I am encouraged by the \u201cWe Shall Overcome\u201d moment at the University of Missouri because it has many good implications. BUT, I am troubled because the expectation will be that these young MEN will get a tacit nod as the leaders of the millennium movement while the SISTA\u2019s of Black Lives Matter will be expected to accept their place in the back by media and respectability politics. I am slap happy though when I think that these young women will no more allow themselves to relegated to the fringes than we would expect a starving jack ass to back up from a barrel of oats! When we as a people are hungry enough for freedom then we will appreciate that it will take us all to gain it!-<\/span>T Ren\u00e9e Crutcher<\/a><\/p>\n

Remember last week at Memphis when I explained to the grad students that football would be the next arena for social protest despite the fact and because of the fact that it is a plantation economy? When you have a massive economic structure that distorts every single state budget (because every football head coach at the land grant schools makes more than every governor in every state in the union), you have the potential for collective resistance. And when that massive plantation economy, like football, structures black bodies, black pain, and white spectatorship, it is ripe to turn against white supremacy in a neoliberal institution like higher ed.-<\/span>Lisa Corrigan<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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