OH YES THEY DID: University of Missouri Protesters Now Segregating Their Members

Civil Rights, in Reverse

Blake Neff reports: In an ironic development, to say the least, protesters at the University of Missouri (MU) segregated themselves by race Wednesday night, having white students leave a gathering in order to create a “black-only healing space.”

[Read the full text here, at The Daily Caller]

Supporters of the group Concerned Students 1950, which has spearheaded the protest movement at MU, assembled at the school’s student center Wednesday night for a meeting after a planned protest march was canceled due to bad weather. And then, according to activist Steve Schmidt, whites were asked to leave:

#ConceredStudent1950 is dividing into seven groups,They’re asking white allies to leave #ConcernedStudent1950 pic.twitter.com/dmIQMSx6Jy

— Steve Schmidt (@_SteveSchmidt_) November 12, 2015

The seven groups amounted to six breakout groups for black (or at least non-white) students and one for the remaining white students. The deliberately segregated arrangement was confirmed by local reporter Jared Koller, who was there on behalf of local KOMU-TV news:

6 groups are led by original #ConcernedStudent1950 leaders with white participants in another group upstairs @mutv23 pic.twitter.com/R450CNMFYw

— Jared Koller (@J_Koll) November 12, 2015

Johnetta Elzie, a national Black Lives Matter activist who is in Columbia after previously leading protest efforts in Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore, said the focus groups were…(read more)

Source: The Daily Caller