A prominent group of black conservatives is slamming University of Missouri students, faculty, coaches and administrators for facilitating the campus upheaval that unfolded there this week.
Black students have been protesting what they consider administration indifference to alleged racial incidents, including a drunken student hurling racial epithets at black students and a fecal swastika allegedly smeared on a bathroom wall.
The issue cranked up to new heights in recent days when the university’s football team threatened to boycott the rest of the season if protesters’ demands were not met, and the specter of millions in lost revenues became very real. On Monday, University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe announced his immediate resignation. Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin soon revealed he would step down at the end of the academic year.