first do you agree that as a whole white America has adopted a strategy of giving lip service to BLM but has no intention of relinquishing any power or advantages that they may have to BLM or african americans ?
Yep, although you must know that power and equality aren't the same. This is how you fall into the "there was a black president" trap.
For the record I agree with you that myers statement is just a bunch of meaningless words, without action I'm continuing to hold every dime and child, and I have an army of them, from K-State.
Curious about the last part... do you think there are other (especially midwestern) state schools doing measurably better than K-State in this respect? If so what are they doing? (I realize this may be entirely beside the point for what you do with your money and progeny.)
This specific instance seems too tied to Jaden to blame the university for allowing it to start, response obviously TBD. The #BlackAtKState from a few weeks back is also hard for me to say whether it is just something that caught on twitter and could have happened at any number of schools, or if there was something about KState in particular.
Good question, and I don't know how other universities would handle it, fortunately they haven't had the chance, K-State has and it appears as if Myers is just going to hem and haw and hope that this goes away. I know this, Wefald wouldn't do this, people might not like what he would have done, but he would have done something other than a 1000 word press release that didn't do much more than tout where he's been. It's unfortunate that the jaden fish was thrown in their laps, but that's how crisis management works.
I agree with #blackatkstate, almost all of those stories had nothing to do with K-State as an institution. That was brought to my my attention a week after otherwise I would have tried to shift the focus on the university response to things that happened under their watch, other than the acts themselves.
I am getting the feeling that the leadership at the school thinks that initiatives aimed at recruiting minority students and using supportive words stand in the place of actual strong, put your foot down advocacy. I also will relate this to sexual harassment at schools. Back in the day before title IX offices, schools would absolutely use strong language disavowing all forms of harassment, but they really did nothing to protect women, not until the federal government made them do so.
