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The black student protesters–particularly activist Jonathan Butler–got a ringing endorsement from Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who recorded a video message to them last week in which he cautioned the University’s new black President not to be an “Uncle Tom” and referred to the successful UM student protests as “the epicenter of the movement of students.”

An anti-racism rally planned at the University of Colorado, Boulder, to show solidarity with University of Missouri black activists was cancelled because the protest organizers are white. However, a check of one of the event planner’s Facebook page reveals that isn’t the case.

In the wake of student protests inspired by Black Lives Matter, the University of Missouri’s image is apparently suffering to the extent that the school has hired a lobbyist as state lawmakers will be closely scrutinizing its funding next year.

On Thursday night, Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large and DailyWire.com Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro delivered a speech titled ‘Truth Is a Microaggression’ at the University of Missouri.

On Thursday night, Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large and DailyWire.com Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro will be speaking at the University of Missouri. His lecture, sponsored by Young America’s Foundation, is scheduled to take place at Ellis Auditorium on the Columbia campus at 6 PM Central Time. The talk is titled “Truth Is A Microaggression.”

Obama’s statement in October 2008 that “we are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America” is well-known. Less well-known is the fact that he said it at Mizzou.

On Saturday, former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown, weighing in on the University of Missouri (“Mizzou”) brouhaha that led to the resignation of university president Tim Wolfe, wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle that the events were “absolutely awesome” for civil rights.

Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated that she appreciates “the way young people are standing up and speaking out” and that “what happened at the university there, what’s happening at other universities, I think reflects

HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher said of protesters at the University of Missouri, “sometimes they looked like the Chinese Army” and denounced Yale’s Halloween costume protesters as “little monsters” on Friday. Maher began by stating, that some of what’s

University of Missouri head coach Gary Pinkel announced his resignation because of a non-Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis.

The kiddie Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact is in full swing. One the one hand, we’ve got the Pantywaist Fascists too timid to handle “microaggressions” but just aggressive enough to call the cops for hurt feelings, the racists who ban white students from their “safe spaces,” and their weak-kneed allies calling for “muscle” against reporters. On the other, we’ve got the intellectual flotsam of the Occupy Wall Street movement, insisting that the one-percenters at the banks that grant loans now hand that money over for free so that they can use it for their vital degree in gender studies and their concentration in lesbian dance theory.

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (D) argued affirmative action is “The only discrimination that people should be railing against on these colleges and universities” on Thursday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. Clarke said, “These aren’t protests. This is an

America is again engulfed in a barrage of grievance-driven tumult brought to us by victim-focused racial identity demagogues, who have long-preferred theatricality over reality. Although the flood of media attention on purported incidences of racism at the University of Missouri has forced the school’s president to resign, it also overshadowed another vexing social malady.

The UCSD Million Students March was held in solidarity with approximately 115 campuses around the country and the University of Missouri (“Mizzou”) throughout the day. Students are also demanding free tuition, student debt forgiveness, and a $15 per hour minimum wage for campus employees.

Mike Middleton, the man just named as the interim president of the University of Missouri, worked as a political activist with the protestors that forced out his predecessor.

Daniel Greenfield at FrontPage Mag writes that the marvelous term “crybully” was coined by Julie Burchill at The Spectator, who described them as “a hideous hybrid of victim and victor, weeper and walloper.”

As racial tensions simmer at campuses across the country, a Yale University event titled “A Moment of Crisis: Race at Yale Teach-In” drew more than 1,100 attendees. The event featured an invited phone-in speaker who is one of the organizer’s of the University of Missouri’s race-inspired protests.

The University of Missouri student who caught protesters physically pushing back media on video earlier this week spoke to Breitbart News, saying the fallout was sparked by what happened previously in Ferguson, Missouri

Mark Schierbecker, the Mizzou student behind the video catching the University of Missouri’s communications professor Melissa Click calling for pushback against the media, preventing the protest from being covered, filed charges against her with the University of Missouri police department.

The University of Missouri wears all-white uniforms when the Tigers take on the BYU Cougars this Saturday at Arrowhead Stadium.

On Wednesday, the Los Angeles Times asked students to submit stories in response to the question: “Is your campus a safe place?”

Saying many Conservatives have “allowed this to happen” by “averting our gaze as tenured radicals have taken over the university,” Kinder added, “We could not avert our gaze from the appalling events at the University of Missouri in the last week.”

Jonathan Butler—the University of Missouri grad student who became the public face of the #ConcernedStudent1950 protests that forced the resignation of both the school’s president and chancellor—claimed several times that he was hit by a car carrying the president in early October during the school’s homecoming parade.

In a week of chaos at the University of Missouri, a popular professor has resigned over criticism that he would not cancel classes after rumors of “threats” to students swept through the campus.

One of the many problems of advertising your hypersensitivity is that you will quickly become what the internet calls a ‘lolcow’ — a creature that can be milked again and again for easy laughs.

In a statement released Tuesday, the dean of the Journalism School at the University of Missouri announced that assistant professor Melissa Click may lose her “courtesy appointment” with the School of Journalism for her aggressive confrontation with student journalists.

University of Missouri Students Association Vice President Brenda Smith-Lezana said, “I personally am tired of hearing that First Amendment rights protect students when they are creating a hostile and unsafe learning environment” on Tuesday’s broadcast of “MSNBC Live.” Smith-Lezana was asked,

On Monday, ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith warned “black America” to not jump so quickly to thinking someone with different views or skin pigmentation are racist. Taking into account he could be called an “Uncle Tom” or “sellout,” Smith continued the University of

One young female University of Missouri student, Jessie Sharon, is using her public Facebook page to express disappointment at recent on campus events.

On his Tuesday broadcast of “Morning Joe,” MSNBC host Joe Scarborough attempted to dissect the events surrounding the alleged racial tensions at the University of Missouri that led to the resignations of the university’s president and its chancellor on Monday.

While the Social Justice Worriers and mighty clueless Multi-Cultural fascists at the University of Missouri have already gotten their way, it’s worth pointing out a story the mainstream media opted to not play up – a large number of Mizzou football players never supported the boycott that led to the resignation of former university president Tim Wolfe.

A twisted string of allegations about racism on the campus of Yale University led hundreds of students to protest Monday, just days after a conference on the future of free speech was disrupted by allegations of racism and two weeks after protests against alleged racism and cultural insensitivity were held over student Halloween costumes.

Claire McCaskill (D-MO) argued that the protests at the University of Missouri “will be an impetus across the country” and “how diverse the faculty is” “is a problem all over America” on Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show.” McCaskill stated,

The president of the University of Missouri bowed to pressure Monday and stepped down from his position. It was the end of a sometimes ugly pressure campaign which seemed to have only a tangential connection to the actual outrage that started students down this road.

Apparently the protesters’ success at forcing University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe to resign on Monday has already gone to their heads.

On a day of chaos at the University of Missouri—where both the school’s president and chancellor resigned after weeks of campus disruptions by students inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement—was also a day of media censorship.