"#MIZZOUHUNGERSTRIKE IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN UNIVERSITIES DISREGARD BLACK LIVES"

"Many incidents are outlined in his letter, including black students being called racial slurs on campus (including the student-body president and the Legion of Black Collegians Royalty Court members during homecoming), the university cancelling Planned Parenthood contracts, graduate student health insurance subsidies being removed earlier this semester, and even an incident last week that involved a swastika drawn with human feces found in a residence hall on campus.

But this isn’t Butler’s first protest by any means. Just last month he and the others involved in the student group Concerned Student 1950 (1950 was the year MU admitted its first black student) protested during the annual homecoming parade by standing in front of President Tim Wolfe’s car, chanting, sharing history about the university’s treatment of black people and making speeches to the crowd. Although there were some supporters in the parade crowd, other onlookers instead shouted the University’s “MIZ-ZOU” chant to drown out the protest group."

http://blavity.com/mizzouhungerstrike-is-what-happens-when-universities-disregard-black-lives/