Race relations in the news

Census.gov data from 2010 showing stark differences in the population of Black of African Americans in Missouri.

https://medium.com/life-tips/i-never-spoke-to-black-man-until-i-went-to-mizzou-223d004a58cf#.q0hy5uhy0

I Never Spoke to a Black Man Until I Went to Mizzou

Jeff Huffman
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Jeff Huffman was a sophomore at Mizzou and the leader of a Christian band "Evidence". He had never talked to a black person until his sophomore year of college. The guy he met is named Terry. Terry had an amazing gift and could throw down a tune. Jeff is from Dexter, Missouri and graduated with roughly 160 people and they were all white. He grew up with no diversity and didn't know anything but white race and Christianity. Jeff realizes that he was sheltered while he grew up but not by his parents, it was because the series of events and decisions of the leaders in his small Missouri home town of Dexter.

My childhood was almost like his but not completely. I grew up in a community that is mainly whites as well but I had a few black friends growing up. Friends that I had met at school and didn't hang out with them outside of school. Not that I was racist or anything but my closest friends were my neighbors and actually they are still really good friends to this day. My parents haven't ever brought a black person or any person of another race to my house while I was growing up so I didn't think that it would be okay for me to ask if I could bring one of my black friends over to hang out. My parents aren't racist that I know of, I think they just prefer to hang out with white families and they mainly hangout with the neighbors that are on my street. We have never had a person of another race live in our neighborhood.

Mizzou Students and Faculty take a stand

I don't necessarily agree with all of the decisions that were made about this racism on campus issue. I can agree with the students sending a letter to the president concerning the issues that are going on. The students wanted the issues to be resolved so they went about it the right way by sending in a letter concerning the issues. I don't agree with them basically making him resign from his job or they weren't going to play. The man probably has a family to support and they just put him out of a job. He can't support his family without a job; I think the players went a little extreme by making him resign. University of Missouri has had the problem with racism for decades. There is self-segregation that goes on on campus too. There is white-housing and black-housing. The white students went over to the black-housing one night and spread cotton balls all over their yards and trees. I think the protests that the students were doing are valid to get recognition for what they are trying to do. The things that have been happening to them are uncalled for and not right at all. There might be other ways to address racism but the most effective is sad to say but it is protesting in public. It gets the most attention and effects the most amount of people possible. Some of the other possible ways to address racism are: put up flyers in the hallways concerning the topic, write letters to higher authority, and trying to just avoid it as much as possible.