‘Plantation Politics’: Racist Legislation Stalks the Mizzou Football Team

The Missouri Tigers football team, in an act of unparalleled audacity, refused to take the field last November unless the university system president, Tim Wolfe, resigned and, sure enough, within 36 hours he was gone. The team should be lauded for its bravery. En lugar, the right-wing Missouri state legislature, lash in hand, wants it to pay a price for its disobedience.

The players were striking against the suffocating, deeply rooted racist atmosphere on campus. They were standing with their fellow students, including one putting his life in peril on a hunger strike. They were risking their scholarships and their futures. They were showing what leadership and character in… LEER MÁS