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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

It's all about them: Mizzou, Black Lives protesters say Paris attacks took spotlight off them





Talk about desperate for attention.

 Must have went by me. Tell me again. How many people were killed and at the University of Missouri? 

BTW...Black football players at Missouri threatened to quit playing unless the president of the university resigns. With a conference record of 1 and 5 it seems they already did.

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The deadly terror attacks in Paris killed at least 129, but to some protesters in the Black Lives Matter movement and at the University of Missouri, it's all about them.

Student protests and outrage over the school's handling of racial issues has brought national attention to the school -- which some students have come to define as a hotbed of racism. Recent racist incidents led to protests including one student's hunger strike and a threatened boycott by the football team. The university system president and the campus chancellor resigned.

After at least 129 people were killed by ISIS in coordinated attacks on Friday, several student protesters at Missouri took to Twitter to express anger at "losing the spotlight" in the media.

"Racist white people kill me, you want everyone to have sympathy for YOUR tragedy, but you have none for ours," wrote user Melanin Monroe under the Twitter handle @NeonElectricity in a post that has since been removed.


Interesting how the news reports are covering the Paris terrorist attacks but said nothing about the terrorist attack at #Mizzou ��☕️��
— Kyra (@_kyrahardy) November 14, 2015


(Believe me baby...when your this stupid going to college ain't gonna help)

Others, like user "dog enthusiast," under the handle @bmahimaaa, equated the slaughter in Paris with the racial tensions in Missouri -- calling both "terrorism."


"Paris attacks were terrorism," the user wrote. "black students getting death threats on their college campuses (A SUPPOSED SAFE SPACE!!) is also TERRORISM."

The tweet -- which is now under a protected account -- had 204 retweets and 237 "likes" as of Tuesday afternoon.






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