#istandwithmizzou

[neohumanism]

Conversation with white male at Mizzou

Me: how's it going at Mizzou?! Him: it's really not that bad as the media is portraying it. I feel safe. Me: are you a white male? Him: yea. Me: well...umm...that's why you feel safe! You have nothing to worry about or fear! Dumb ass kid, I swear!! Ugh.

[morethanresistance-blog]

IF YOU REALLY "STAND WITH MIZZOU" ACCEPT THIS CHALLENGE TO BRING CHANGE TO THE INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION, AND OUR SOCIETY! Let's help out Mizzou's Black community and our own by keeping the demands for change coming#back2back! Post a status/tweet/picture/video/etc. of yourself and/with others taking charge in your community, completing these challenges:

[truecolorsdontclash]

“Those White Shadows”

In light of the situation at Mizzou, I’ve decided to share a piece I’ve been working on for some time now. Its not finish, and it’ll probably change again, but I think it represents the experience of every black student at PWIs across the country.

Outwardly jaunting, you come for an excursion of life. A major decision to major in your vision but, Affirmative action has already drug you by your collar with dollars and not so promising diversity. You’re here. The landscape is beautiful. The grass well kept. Dorms slightly gleaming over the thin line of luxury. Cafeterias provide a buffet of blind and unconscious served with a multitude of “let’s make them feel at home”. Oh but those white shadows, they keep you awake. Those white shadows ease their way into position. Position themselves before you on a platform of privilege. Privilege they just can’t seem to grasp with any of their God given senses. Oh, those white shadows. They crowd your blackness with thoughts of burden, exception, and rejection. They hover your hints of humanity with the beams of their supreme choice. A choice to attend. A choice to let you in. A choice to let you succeed. A choice to let you breathe. Oh, those white shadows. They smother you with their unnecessary desire of power. They smack you with their carefully worded racial comments. They kill you with their bare eye. The same eye that sees you. The same eye that knows themselves. The same eye that witnesses what they lack.

[beyoncethinkpiece]

Mizzou

The Mizzou tag is filled with Donald Trumps and Raven Symonés who think race isn't a thing, and that we'd ALL be better off not talking about it. I hate to break the news, but that's how nothing gets done. We aren't ALL better off not talking about it, just you. So yes, the Paris/Mizzou news coverage is about race. It's inconvenient and uncomfortable, but true.

[uniqueschatje]

Times like these put everything in perspective, just wish times like these didn't have to happen in order for us to recognize our blessings.

[tobiadewale]

and also pray for the safety of black students at the university of missouri. #istandwithmizzou