Mizzou Students Flee Early Hour Terror

Missouri University black students were attacked again over the past twenty-four hours, sending some running in fear. A barrage of Tweets are calling to kill Mizzou Blacks; “Black motherfxxxs, you’re not welcome here” was was heard shouted in the night; and violent threats to the campus Black Culture Center two days ago progressed into vandalism, according to student newspaper photographs. Amid this national historical event, universities across the nation are standing in solidarity with MIzzou, including Yale, seen in the feature photo above.

Speculations that today’s Mizzou event is a false flag for gun control are rife on American conservative sites. American human and civil rights professionals have concurred for years, however, that at the heart of all America’s deficits and faults, including violence, is racism. Racism is the most important and persistent social problem in America and in the world today. Racism is on the rise in increasing ways,” and, “At the heart of prejudice lies two concepts: ignorance and fear,” writes Caleb Rosado from Eastern University in Pennsylvania. So far, only this latter notion is being proven accurate by Americans’ recent responses to #Mizzou students’ struggle, spreading nationwide.

Police arrested two people linked to violent threats against students yesterday. A Northwest Missouri State University student from Blue Springs was charged with two counts of making a terrorist threat. Nodaway County Prosecutor Robert Rice on Thursday filed one misdemeanor and one felony count against Connor Stottlemyre, 19, a freshman at the Maryville school. Stottlemyre allegedly posted a threat on Yik Yak social media app: “I’m gonna shoot any black people tomorrow, so be ready.” He was arrested Wednesday in his dormitory.

Boone County prosecutors charged Hunter M. Park, 19, with making a terroristic threat. His threats appeared Tuesday on Yik Yak and other social media, allegedly threatening to “shoot every black person I see.” A university police officer wrote in a probable cause statement that Park admitted he wrote the postings. Park’s postings mimicked those linked to a deadly shooting rampage in Oregon last month that left the gunman and nine others dead.

Today, among race-related police investigations was a fresh round of campus incidents targeting black students after sororities were put on lockdown.

Walking home from a dining hall with friends, Isaac Jahns, a freshman residing in Hatch Residence Hall, heard threatening insults yelled, possibly related to the vandalism, he said.

“‘Black motherf***rs, you’re not welcome here,’” someone yelled, presumably at a black female student walking alone, according to Jahns. “I looked back, and there was a girl (by the GOBCC) [Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center] with a red jacket on and she booked it.

“She was sprinting, so we booked it too; went back (to Hatch); and I tried calling MUPD twice,” Jahns reported to the university newspaper staff. “We were like, ‘It’s gotta be the same guy. It has to be.’”

Jahns said he did not see the male suspect and thought the insults were directed at the female he believed to be black.

Jahns said he tried calling MUPD but “they would not pick up their phones.” At that time, Jahns had not seen a vandalized sign at the university’s culture center. Only two days after black students at the center received a phone call threat prompting extra police security and the two arrests, someone vandalized the center sign and again, students were verbally threatened.

The word ‘Black’ on the sign was blocked out late Wednesday night or soon after midnight with what appeared to be black spray paint, according to students this morning in their school newspaper Maneater. “MU Police Department arrived at the center shortly after.” The Legion of Black Collegians published a statement about the vandalism on Twitter at 1:37 a.m. After back in the dorm and reading about the vandalized sign on Twitter, Jahns returned to the center, according to the school newspaper.

As increaing numbers of students across the nation join Mizzou Blacks in solidarity, a barrage of Tweets and Instagrams call for violence against them. Some of these are such blatant terrorist threats, they appear to be set-ups by intelligence operatives. One woman poses on Twitter with a sign advocating Naziism “because insinuating we are all equal insults my intelligence.” She urges others to follow her example by posing with a similar a sign and posting them on the new #BlackOnCampus Twitter hashtag campaign that began last night and is already trending.

.Among others posting violent threats on Twitter is user @BodanKPN, apparently not apprehended. (https://twitter.com/BodanKPN) As of the time of this writing, his Twitter page is still actively tweeting and retweeting death threats, along with Donald Trump statements and Nazi sentiments.

New threats come on the heels of Missouri University student president Tweeting an apology for his statements about KKK threats, saying they were from unreliable sources. The right wing, continuing to spread the false trope that Michael Brown, the black youth police shot dead in Missouri last year sparking the past year of racial protests, never said with his hands up, “Don’t shoot!” are jumping on anything possible to wrong black students.

For example, bizpacreview.com writes, “Much like the lie known as “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot,” rumors and unsubstantiated allegations continue to flow freely on the University of Missouri campus, with some of the worst of it coming from student body president Payton Head.”

A more popular right wing reporter, “the Health Ranger” Mike Adams posted a KKK image with a Tweet that insinuates the student president was hallucinating. He includes hastags for the KKK and False Flag:

“Yes, this would be the same Mike Adams that Dr. Oz featured on his show last year,” writes Keith Kloor for Discover in his article, Shining a Light on Mike Adams, AKA the Health Ranger. “In case you didn’t get the message,” Kloor quotes Adam stating, ‘It is the moral right — and even the obligation — of human beings everywhere to actively plan and carry out the killing of those engaged in heinous crimes against humanity.’”

Alex Jones’s reporter Paul Joseph Watson is on the ridicule-the-black-student band wagon, tweeting messages such as this:

We need not go to Jeff Rense’s top alternative “news” website nor popular radio program. His regular hosting former Grand Wizard David Duke (prohibited in some EU countries) to air white supremacy sentiments on the popular radio program is enough to know.

These conservative “independent” reporters attribute no credit to integrity of the students nor their persecution. Their not mentioning the student president quickly admitting his wrong and apologizing is no surprise. Nor is there recognition that Payton Head was likely correct in the first place, given police arrests later in the day. The wave of conservative social media users participating in a racism justification fest is adding negative sentiments against blacks, fueling flames of the false flag they perpetuate.

Activists chant, ‘This is what democracy looks like!’ in Mizzou Student Center basement.

The first period of threats to the Center or MU surfaced on Yik Yak last December: “Let’s burn down the black culture center & give them a taste of their own medicine,” the yak said. Reportedly, with billions of dollars in surveillance equipment, the individual who posted that yak was never found.

Since the first two arrests Wednesday, other threatening yaks surfaced. MU Alert released a statement at 7:44 p.m. Wednesday night stating that MU Police Department had “increased security” in response to the threats. Several sorority houses went into lockdown.

“We’re aware of it and we’re looking and trying to identify who it is,” MUPD Maj. Brian Weimer said.

Above Photo: Missouri University demanding civil and human rights ignites solidarity across America with at least ten major universities being occupied by students demanding rights to safety and respect. Photo Credit: Bettina Hansen @BettinaHansen

Mizzou Support Goes National, As Does Racial violence

What goes on in Mizzou does not stay in Mizzou. At least ten universities coast to coast have rallied in solidarity with Mizzou. Yale University, Ohio State University, Claremont McKenna, Ithica College, University of Colorado in Denver, University of Southern Mississippi, University of Washington, Columbia University and Howard University have had walk-outs and/or protests demonstrating their solidarity with Mizzou. They, too, claim racism on their campuses. Some are already feeling the heat for their protests against racism. Howard University was forced to increase security Thursday after a racist death threat against all its students.

“We are aware of the threat made against the University and its students and are working with campus, local, and federal law enforcement on this serious matter,” President Wayne A. I. Frederick wrote in an email to students. “However, in an abundance of caution, the University has increased security on campus and at area metro stations.”

The threat, reportedly posted Wednesday to an online forum, was being shared on social media by Thursday morning: “I mean we might as well bend over and let the n****rs f*ck us right in the ass,” the posting said, echoing the type of sentiments mentioned above. “They’re unhappy no matter what.”

“I left MU yesterday because I didn’t want to put up with it anymore,” the commenter wrote. “I go home to MD and what do I see? The same old shit. Turn on the news and it’s always n****rs causing trouble everywhere.”

“So I’ve decided. Any n****rs left at Howard University after 10 tomorrow will be the first to go,” the message continued. “And any of those cheapstake [SIC] n****rs who try to get out using the metro will regret that choice real fast.”

Heads Rolling

Missouri University Professor Dale Brigham resigned this week after protests over his refusing to cancel an exam amid death threats and intimidation on campus.Two other University of Missouri resignations due to not addressing racism are being filled. Nick Evans has been named interim Director of the Office of Greek Life, another position vacant after resignation. And, of course, the university president.

After years of inadequately addressing rampant racism at University of Missouri, its president Tim Wolfe resigned last week, admitting that as his reason. A call for higher education institution resignations did not stop in Missouri, any more than racial tensions do.

Dean Mary Spellman at Claremont McKenna resigned after sparking a campus protest and two students’ hunger striking this week over her condescending email to a Latina student saying she would work to serve those who “don’t fit our CMC mold.” About 30 students of color wrote to President Hiram E. Chodosh in April, saying they felt excluded, isolated and intimidated and proposing actions to increase multicultural understanding, including a resource center, funding for multicultural clubs, more diverse hiring, a mentoring program and an administrator to oversee diversity. Students, however, said their pleas were largely dismissed, according to the Student Life campus newspaper.

Hundreds of Ithaca College students in upstate New York are demanding that the college’s president, Tom Rochon resign due to allegedly failing to address racial insensitivity.

At University of Missouri, the System Board of Curators announced Michel Middleton as the interim system president at a press conference early this afternoon. Middleton disclosed feeling marginalized on campus every day as a student, faculty member and administrator. He began leadership of the four-campus university system with powerful words:

“We can build the institution and country that we imagine rather than the institution or country that is.”