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Police: No proof the KKK is on campus


Weimer said officers went to where the KKK was reported to be -- and found nothing.

"We have found no evidence of anything related to the KKK on campus," he said.

There is no immediate threat to campus. Please do not spread rumors and follow @MUAlert atNews and Updates | MU Alert | Online Emergency Information Center | University of Missouri for updates.

— MU Alert (@MUalert) November 11, 2015
Student Body President Payton Head had already posted about it on Facebook.

"Students please take precaution. Stay away from the windows in residence halls. The KKK has been confirmed to be sighted on campus," Head wrote in a post that has since been deleted. "I'm working with the MUPD, the state trooper and the National Guard."

The police spokesman said the National Guard was not on campus, "nor have they been called to assist."

Head quickly apologized for spreading the rumor.

"I'm sorry about the misinformation that I have shared through social media," he posted on Facebook.

"I received and shared information from multiple incorrect sources, which I deeply regret. The last thing needed is to incite more fear in the hearts of our community."
University of Missouri students report threats of violence - CNN.com

The student body president, a gay Black man, made up the rumor about the KKK being on campus attacking Black students.
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Is he an industry plant from the gay agenda?
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/11/u...erned-student-1950-speaks-at-age-89.html?_r=0

They named themselves Concerned Student 1950, in reference to the year the first black students were admitted to the University of Missouri.

What the student demonstrators who toppled the president of the university system and the chancellor of its flagship campus in Columbia this week may not have known was that somewhere out there — in Frankfort, Ky., to be precise — one of those very students, Gus T. Ridgel, now 89, was watching.

In an interview, Mr. Ridgel said he was surprised and disappointed by the racist incidents at the university that prompted a campus upheaval. “I had always looked at the progress that had been made,” he said.

But as a doctorate-holding economist, he said he had to admire the boycotts of university businesses and athletics that Concerned Student 1950, the main student activist group, wielded to force those changes

“Anything that affects the bottom line is going to get the attention of the leaders,” Mr. Ridgel said Tuesday. “I have to commend them on accomplishing what people this time last year would have considered an impossibility.”

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A photograph provided by Mr. Ridgel shows him at an alumni and faculty lounge in 1951.
Mr. Ridgel today is a celebrated graduate of the university, with an honorary degree and a fellowship in his name. But that seemed implausible in mid-20th-century Missouri, where efforts to integrate St. Louis swimming pools were met with bat-wielding white youths and educational segregation was enshrined in law.

He gained admission to Missouri’s graduate program in economics in 1950 only after civil rights groups won a court ruling desegregating the university. He decided to attend knowing that one of the black men who had gone to court seeking to break the school’s color barrier had vanished. He lived alone in a two-bed dormitory room in the midst of a campus housing shortage, because no white student would room with him.

Blacks had but one opportunity for off-campus socializing, a coffee shop near the university bookstore. Mr. Ridgel recalled entering a second cafe with three white students: “The man looked up from the counter,” he said, “and said, ‘I can serve you three, but I can’t serve him.’

“And they said, ‘If you can’t serve the four of us, you can’t serve any of us.’ And we walked out.”

He speaks almost matter-of-factly of his past as a path-breaker, and remembers his time at the university, during an era when separate-but-equal was still the law of the land, as surprisingly free of conflict. He said his presence had provoked no racial epithets, like those hurled at the current student body president, who is black, or swastikas scrawled on campus buildings, like the one found in recent weeks.

Rather, a student poll claimed broad support for the admission of blacks. Classmates made a point of sitting with him for meals, he said — and, eventually, asking to study with him.

Asked whether he had suffered discrimination on campus, he replied, “I’ll put it this way: My lowest grades, both of my B’s, were from one professor. I think the students with whom I studied felt I should have been in a higher category.”

Mr. Ridgel went on to earn a doctorate in economics at the University of Wisconsin and pursue an academic career at institutions across the South. He retired as vice president for finance and administration at Kentucky State University, a historically black institution in Frankfort, where he now lives.

Still, his path into the university was a struggle. In the 1930s and 1940s, black students sued to break the color barrier at state institutions to no avail; the Supreme Court ruled in 1938 that the university had to admit a black student to its law school — but only if there was no comparable institution elsewhere.

The state converted a cosmetology school at the all-black Lincoln University, in Jefferson City, into a law school.

Mr. Ridgel was the valedictorian at his high school in Poplar Bluff, in southeast Missouri near the Arkansas border. After graduating magna cum laude from Lincoln University in three years — he lacked the money for a fourth — Mr. Ridgel was approached by civil rights groups to join a handful of other students testing the segregation laws once more.

“Everything was segregated in Missouri,” he said. “They had decided that they wanted to find a candidate they were fairly sure could not be refused for any academic reason.”

When a ruling was handed down, surprisingly and suddenly, in his favor, Mr. Ridgel said, he realized that he had no money to attend. A coalition of black civic leaders and an anonymous white donor assembled a year’s worth of tuition and room and board, but upon arriving at the university, Mr. Ridgel discovered a second, even bigger problem: The graduate program in economics was two years long, not one.

His department chairman came up with a solution. “He told me that I could graduate in one year if I could do all my course work and write my master’s thesis,” Mr. Ridgel said, “but nobody had ever done it.” Two semesters later, he received a master’s degree in economics.

Mr. Ridgel went on to earn a doctorate in economics at Wisconsin and to conduct postdoctoral work at the University of Chicago, Duke University and other institutions. His academic experience, he said, was hardly bias free; as a Ford Foundation fellow at Duke, he said, he was barred from going through the cafeteria line and even from dining with other Ford fellows until a partition was erected shielding them from other diners. Nor could he retrieve books from library stacks, something other students routinely did.

Unlike black students at Missouri today, Mr. Ridgel said, he felt largely powerless to do much about his situation. “They have available to them means to react to an unfair situation that obviously weren’t available to me in 1950,” he said.

That they had to be used, Mr. Ridgel said, is unfortunate.

“It’s distressing, after this long period of time, that there would be racial incidents that would precipitate that kind of reaction. I had no idea that such an atmosphere existed,” he said. But the fact that students were able to address the incidents, he said, is a sign of progress by itself.
 

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That's how you do it, fukk with their bottomline, that's one of the easiest ways to see reform....

I take a different lesson from this, but I'm not terribly upset about it.:yeshrug: Any HL brehs go there? I want to know what that campus is like on the day to day...
 
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