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[Fritsch_the_cat]

Critics Pounce After Family Background of Central Figure in Mizzou Protests Comes to Light

Graduate student Jonathan Butler became a central figure in racially charged protests on the University of Missouri campus when he announced he’d remain on a hunger strike until the the university system’s president, Timothy Wolfe, resigned

In the aftermath, critics of the student protests are taking notice of Butler’s family background.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports:

Jonathan Butler played high-school football at Omaha Central High, where he won a state championship, and earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Mizzou, the newspaper reports. He is working toward a master’s degree in educational leadership and policy.

He is a member of a prominent Omaha family. The newspaper says that Butler’s father is Eric L. Butler, executive vice president for sales and marketing for the Union Pacific Railroad. His 2014 compensation was $8.4 million, according to regulatory filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Eric L. Butler and his wife, Cynthia Butler, serve as pastors ofJoy of Life Ministries, the newspaper reported. Along with Jonathan Butler, the couple has two other children.

Butler’s family is rumored to be worth millions of dollars.

The graduate student reportedly declined an interview request by the Post-Dispatch.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...ral-figure-in-mizzou-protests-comes-to-light/

 

[Yakuza Rich]

If your conclusion is correct than I would argue you missed end result...if he was innocent He or the University should have fought it and said no we are not firing him (if that was what they did) or he is not going to resign over the issue.

There were already leaks out that some of the coaches and players that did not want to stop playing. They might have missed one game but I doubt it would have lasted past that.

So again...If the guy resigned he is either guilty of something or he and the university are some spineless individuals.

I don't think you read the article I linked.

Initially, Wolfe refused to resign. Then MSA (the equivalent of a Board of Trustees) came in and forced him to resign.

The protestors have stated their case and I haven't see anything that Wolfe actually did that would warrant protesting against *him*. And what is the Missouri Head Coach going to do? Play without the black players? He wouldn't be able to field a team.

The Legion of Black Collegians seems to want anybody who is President of the school to put a stop to racism. Wolfe is really supposed to stop random people from yelling racial slurs? (again, it's alleged it happened).

And it appears that Wolfe was concerned over Jonathan Butler's health. Butler had gone on a hunger strike demanding that Wolfe resign and claimed he would kill himself if that didn't happen. And it appears that Butler's chief complaint was the stoppage of graduate student healthcare benefits and *not* race. So I think if Wolfe resigning to protect some idiot from killing himself isn't exactly spineless.

I will take you again to the YouTube video which can be easily accessed (there are some swear words, so I won't post it here). I would have bet anything that the protestors had valid complaints against Wolfe and instead I think they are the very worst case of entitlement and a lack of education and being able to think for themselves that this generation of millenials has been stereotyped as.







YR

 

[Nightman]

I laugh when I see that the University of Missouri went from Progressive darlings after Michael Sam came out to a bastion of racism and White Privilege. These protesters won the battle but may have lost the War. Wolfe resigned and now what?? I'm sure a minority will be hired to replace him but what happens when she can't prevent future racial incidents and hurt feelings.

These kids today want to protest the smallest of slights but they want to do it in a "safe place" where no one can judge them or disagree with them. The real world is not a fair place and these kids will run into some mean people that don't follow the rules and I fear they will not be able to handle it.

 

[DFWJC]

Maybe being close to Ferguson has skewed their perspectives. I thought it had to be some kind of terrible assault or fire or something.

This makes sense.

 

[DFWJC]

I don't think it was a matter of him preventing such incidents. Based on what I'd been reading, it was how he addressed them when presented with the information about such incidents. He seemed to poo-poo them and not take them serious enough.

BTW, Go Cougars

 

[DFWJC]

Just a side note.....I always thought a swastika was more anti-Semite than anything.
It was still disgusting...hope they wore gloves when they did their "art" work.

 

[WoodysGirl]

This makes sense.

It's not really about Ferguson.. I have two sisters who went to college about an hour away from Mizzou. Long before the riots and such happened in Ferguson. One currently lives in Colombia. Racial dynamics in that general area are "interesting" to say the least. You learn to survive in a state of subtlety and covert racism.

 

[DFWJC]

It's not really about Ferguson.. I have two sisters who went to college about an hour away from Mizzou. Long before the riots and such happened in Ferguson. One currently lives in Colombia. Racial dynamics in that general area are "interesting" to say the least. You learn to survive in a state of subtlety and covert racism.

Sad

 

[Nightman]

Just a side note.....I always thought a swastika was more anti-Semite than anything.
It was still disgusting...hope they wore gloves when they did their "art" work.

But wouldn't making it out of feces be like a double negative. It could be interpreted as anti-anti-Semites.

 

[WoodysGirl]

Sad

It really is.. And unless you've experienced it or witnessed it, it's easy to sit on the sidelines and say, "Oh, that's not that bad."

But ya know, I hope it works out for them.. It'll pass and all this stuff will be forgotten and the area will continue to be "interesting."

 

[Yakuza Rich]

Just a side note.....I always thought a swastika was more anti-Semite than anything.

Ya think?

Either way, if you really look at these cases of racial tensions and the swastika gets brought out...it's usually done by the person (people) that are crying foul. Just like the Tawana Brawley case in NY years ago and the same with Morton Downey Jr. They both did it to themselves. There's something where those that are crying foul think that the swastika represents all racists where I don't think racists (unless they are skin heads or Klan members) ever even think of the swastika to symbolize their racist views.

Like I said...this started out as a protests from graduate assistants over pay and cutting benefits. It soon turned into racism. Butler was protesting against the GA benefit cuts and it appears to me when that was not working, he played the race card. Then there have been alleged instances of racism. But nobody knows if they happened and if they did happen, were the racists students, faculty or just random strangers not associated with the school.

And the fact that they feel they have the right to ban the press from their protest on public property is:

1. Stupid.

2. Violates the Constitution.

3. No instances of racism can explain the stupidity of not wanting the press to cover your protests.

I'm all for protesting. But the level of stupidity and witch hunting somebody that has nothing to do with the case is incredible.





YR

 

[DFWJC]

But wouldn't making it out of feces be like a double negative. It could be interpreted as anti-anti-Semites.

It was a head-scratcher. Maybe they were too dumb to go that deep.

 

[Nightman]

Ya think?

Either way, if you really look at these cases of racial tensions and the swastika gets brought out...it's usually done by the person (people) that are crying foul. Just like the Tawana Brawley case in NY years ago and the same with Morton Downey Jr. They both did it to themselves. There's something where those that are crying foul think that the swastika represents all racists where I don't think racists (unless they are skin heads or Klan members) ever even think of the swastika to symbolize their racist views.

Like I said...this started out as a protests from graduate assistants over pay and cutting benefits. It soon turned into racism. Butler was protesting against the GA benefit cuts and it appears to me when that was not working, he played the race card. Then there have been alleged instances of racism. But nobody knows if they happened and if they did happen, were the racists students, faculty or just random strangers not associated with the school.

And the fact that they feel they have the right to ban the press from their protest on public property is:

1. Stupid.

2. Violates the Constitution.

3. No instances of racism can explain the stupidity of not wanting the press to cover your protests.

I'm all for protesting. But the level of stupidity and witch hunting somebody that has nothing to do with the case is incredible.





YR

It all seems so stereotypical and coincidental. Like how Hollywood would depict racism.

A pickup truck with a Confederate flag, one of the incidents just happened to involve the student body president(who is black and gay BTW but just last night lied about the KKK being confirmed on the campus) and the coup de gras, a poo-poo swastika smeared on a restroom stall.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

It all seems so stereotypical and coincidental. Like how Hollywood would depict racism.

A pickup truck with a Confederate flag, one of the incidents just happened to involve the student body president(who is black and gay BTW but just last night lied about the KKK being confirmed on the campus) and the coup de gras, a poo-poo swastika smeared on a restroom stall.

Yup.

And I'm for protests if there is a reason to do it. I was for the occupy movements (to a degree). But, this is pure nonsense that is fueled by a sense of entitlement and lies.





YR

 

[casmith07]

I have a really good friend who was a Mizzou cheerleader back in the day. She's white, and many of her college boyfriends and friends were black.

There's no doubt in my mind from the stories she has shared that any of the stuff that happened at Mizzou is true.

I mean this is the same state where part of the in-processing brief at Fort Leonard Wood, MO includes a few slides on awareness/safety due to white supremacist/KKK activity around the base and the state, so there's that.