apparently Ben Shapiro is going to Mizzou to speak and tell them they are acting "spoiled" (see link at bottom)
11/17/15
NORMALLY i AGREE WITH MUCH of what my fellow conservatives say on the radio (ie ben shapiro, rush limbaugh, mark levin, dennis prager, michael savage, et al), but I disagree with most of them in regard to calling the black students at "Mizzou" (university of missouri, columbia) spoiled or wimpy etc for protesting hurtful language & gestures aimed at them.
There's the old saying "Sticks and stones will break your bones, but words will never hurt you" . I disagree with this saying. WORDS can be VERY hurtful, sometimes more so than physical violence. And words can even be used to demote people to lower positions, and to even defeat them in court , sometimes creating "legal fiction", and doing damage to those not sophisticated with the art of using language to defeat people.
And the same people tell the black students NOT to use violence; nor to "talk back" , nor to protest peacefully as they are doing . Essentially they are telling the black students to "take it like a man" and do nothing at all. It's LUDICROUS.
They have the right to be outraged by the derogatory words and language used against them, and the hunger strike & football walk-out was the perfect response. I don't know if the resignation of the president was necessary, but the president obviously was not being very assertive or vocal or showing much support for his own black students, so maybe it was the right thing.
And I say all this as a WHITE MALE in defense of the black students. I say this because I also know how hurtful words can be and as a Christian I try to refrain from using them against others, but have been a victim of hurtful language myself.
YES, IT HURTS, and we have a right and obligation to say it hurts, and it's NOT RIGHT. i do NOT understand these conservatives who say "BE A MAN" about such things. IN fact, the black students MUST do something, and it cannot be violent, nor retaliating likewise with words aimed at those who are trying to denigrate them.
My fellow conservatives are putting these black students in a double-bind. Traditionally, there's a lot of black males in prison, and part of the reason is because they've been denigrated, and told they can't do anything about it. They can't respond violently, and if they complain they are told to "BE A MAN " about it.
They end up SILENCED and sometimes on the street if they do nothing; and if they respond violently they end up in prison. The black students at Mizzou figured out the ONLY thing they can do is peaceful, passive response such as hunger strike, and walking off the football team.
It is EXACTLY the right response, and the only thing they can do without ending up in prison or completely emasculated. Shame on my fellow conservatives for saying they are un-manly for "whining" about being called names. That's wrong. And I don't understand why Ben Shapiro is calling them "spoiled"...and jumping on the bandwagon of saying the black students need to "man up" and just take it.
Especially Ben Shapiro who is Jewish...he knows the history of the holocaust. Does he think what his Jewish ancestors did was the right response? being taken into concentration camps without resistance ? That's manly ?
I don't want to open a can of worms about the holocaust, that's a whole different story, but it does seem odd that Ben Shapiro would say the black students response is not appropriate. I JUST DON'T AGREE with my fellow conservatives this time around.
I say to my fellow conservatives to MAN UP THEMSELVES and defend the black students from being denigrated. That's what our MANLY ancestors did to free them from slavery...AND what we need to continue doing. When we see UNKINDNESS we need to speak up against it, and join our black brothers & sisters in protesting against it.
also see
" If u declare with your mouth,
"Jesus is Lord," & believe in your heart
that God raised Him from the dead,
u will be saved."
Romans 10.9