ERIC writes:

There have been a spate of black protests at universities recently. I am struck by the insolence of the protesters and the trivial nature of their grievances.

At Yale, an administrator wrote a memo coaching members of the community to avoid wearing Halloween costumes that might give offense. A female faculty member piped up by email to say that perhaps the university should not be an arbiter of taste (or something to that effect). This brought scorn upon her head, at which point her husband (also on the faculty) stepped in to verbally defend her.

The outcome was this. The arrogance of this woman is breathtaking. What right has she to charge him with discourtesy?

At Missouri, the student body president, a black man who was elected by his fellow students, claimed that he was the target of a drunk yelling racial slurs, and that such has happened to him on campus on other occasions. Additionally, on two occasions a few weeks apart, a swastika was found painted in feces on the wall of a dormitory bathroom in the early morning hours. When a group of protesters tried to confront the University President by blocking his limousine at a parade, he refused to leave his car and kept driving. 

These were the crimes of the people of Missouri: at worst, drunken verbiage, graffiti, and indifference. A university of over twenty thousand people has at least one (alleged) racist drunk, and one emotionally disturbed graffitist, and a president who apparently does not think that he needs to get out of his car because someone wants to stop a parade. Golly. Who knew?

Since The Day The Prexy Did Not Stop, protesters have disrupted classes and events with bullhorns, hectoring passersby with charges of their racism. White protesters have appeared carrying signs saying, “I acknowledge my white privilege”. A demand was made that the president apologize to the protesters and acknowledge his white privilege. This movement toward human dignity seems to require that men and women humiliate themselves in public.

This just in: The head of the University of Missouri has just resigned.

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