Communists, Pagans, and the UM Columbia Race Protests

The University of Missouri Columbia is the pre-eminent college in the University of Missouri system, and since it has a long, illustrious history of great football, is the pre-eminent university in the state. If you were a community organizer you would try to crack that particular nut first, and the rest of the MU system would fall in line. This is no idle consideration, because you would set a precedent for all higher educational establishments. That is why it should come as no surprise that there has been racial tension at Mizzou.

The recent protests and diet hunger strike by a black student, coupled with a planned boycott by several black football players, led to the recent resignation of both the University President and the Chancellor. What happened? First, here is a timeline of events. The ironically named Payton Head, president of the Missouri Student Association, started this when he posted on Facebook about being called a racist name by someone in a pickup truck ON CAMPUS. Now, it may come as a surprise to Mr. Head, but it is hard to accept cries of racism from a guy elected president of a student association; if Mizzou was so racist how did he get there in the first place? It is also quite suspicious that some pickup-truck driving hillbillies accosted him on campus. This means that the racists were either students or faculty, and not just random hillbillies. But who in their right mind would do such a thing, when the penalty would be expulsion ? Remember, this is a government run university, under the thumb of Federal anti-discrimination agencies. And a student has to pay to be there, so I ask again, who would do such a thing? If it was not a student or faculty than it was an outsider, which bespeaks absolutely nothing about the racial culture on campus. Maybe it says something about campus security.

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Microaggression? What is that exactly?

According to the Missourian article: “Head’s statement went viral on social media, and many people shared their support of Head and frustration with MU’s response, or lack thereof, to his post. “I’d had experience with racism before, like microaggressions, but that was the first time I’d experienced in-your-face racism,” Head told a Missourian reporter. Microaggression? What is that exactly? And has it never occurred to Mr. Head that his accusations against white people might itself be micro aggression? And what exactly did Head expect the University to do? If he had something solid for them to act upon they could have pursued the matter, but you can’t simply say some dude called you a name and expect the world to stop. At any rate, Mr. Head offers no witnesses to back his story. But that didn’t stop a few others from coming out with their own hearsay claims. Actually the University did respond, again from the article: “That same day, MU Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin responded with a post of his own, acknowledging and condemning racism at MU. “There was a silence that fell over us all, almost in disbelief that this racial slur in particular was used in our vicinity,” Naomi Collier, president of MU’s NAACP chapter and member of the LBC’s activities committee, wrote in the letter. Oct. 8: Loftin announces mandatory online diversity training for faculty, staff and students, which is met with widespread skepticism.” A group called Concerned Students 1950 has been at the epicenter of this. 1950 was the year MU was integrated. Concerned Students 1950 issued a series of demands. Again, from the Missourian: “Ten days after the Homecoming protest, the group issued the statement with eight demands, including enforcement of mandatory racial awareness and inclusion training for all faculty, staff and students; an increase in the percentage of black faculty and staff; and an increase in funding to hire mental health professionals for the MU Counseling Center, particularly those of color; and more staff for social justice centers on campus.” This led to an act of mayhem on the part of some black students, who surrounded President Wolfe’s car during the homecoming parade and screamed at him in a threatening manner. Wolfe accidentally bumped a student, leading to accusations of assault by the gang, who seem surprised that if you stand in front of a car you may get hit. It was only AFTER all of this that the swastika in human excrement appeared. Strange. Stranger still, Nazis are more associated with Jew hating than with hating black people. Granted, they pretty much hate everyone, but why a swastika? One must question the timing of this. It also led to the diet, er, hunger strike of one of the students, and the boycott by black football players (who should have been kicked off the team) along with the support of their coach. In a most pusillanimous fashion President Wolfe resigned, followed shortly thereafter by the Chancellor. But this was neither the beginning nor the end of this story. During the “Hands UP! Don’t Shoot!” rioting in Ferguson Mo. Black students at Mizzou staged a “die in”. White people were told to not participate.

“Tuesday afternoon’s rally attracted hundreds of students and faculty and lasted more than 90 minutes as participants vented frustration over the decision by a grand jury to not indict Police Officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of Michael Brown.” ““The ‘die-in’ is meant to represent black bodies that are killed unjustly. It was requested that others stand in a circle holding hands,” student Ebony Francis told The College Fix in a telephone interview. “

So, we have had this pot simmering for quite some time. Interesting. Here’s something else that I find interesting; the appearance of a swastika in human excrement stinks - both literally and figuratively. I suspect it was done by none other than the Concerned Students 1950 group, or some fellow traveler. Consider the church burnings in north St. Louis. There were a series of fires in predominantly black churches in the StL area, and the liberal media was convinced it was white racists doing the burning. Turns out it was a black career criminal. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

“Nov 1, 2015 ... David Lopez Jackson is charged with two counts of second-degree arson. ... fires this month, but authorities say they don't know the motive.”

No motive?

So who has been funding this little putsche at Mizzou?

And, after 9 days there have been no postings on this story by anyone, and the police have not given us a motive. This man was not a political thug, but a criminal, who wouldn’t bother if he wasn’t being paid. Who was paying him? Well, who paid the protesters in Ferguson? George Soros, for one. So who has been funding this little putsche at Mizzou? Is the palsied hand of Soros involved? For that matter, this is exactly like something that ACORN, our dear President’s former employer, would have their grubby hands in. Without actually going to Columbia and doing detective work I have no way of knowing, but I suspect the same leftists who organized Ferguson are involved. There are other reasons. For example, what the students chanted when they found out they had won.

"“It is our duty to fight for our freedom,” a student leader chanted. “It is our duty to win. We must love and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.” "The statement called for the resignation of the Wolfe. In part, it read, “Experiencing unmitigated and constant subordination at MU and being ignored by those in the highest positions of authority calls for immediate change or death fighting for it.”

Nothing to lose but our chains is the battle cry of Karl Marx and Frederic Engels in The Communist Manifesto. So now we know the organizers are communists. The celebrating students had another chant.

“The meeting ended with an “Ashé power!” chant — Yoruba for power — and more applause. Then, the crowd started screaming “M-I-Z” and “Z-O-U” as Concerned Student 1950 left the stage. During the Oct. 10 parade, the cheer was used to drown out the group when they stood in front of Wolfe's red convertible.”

Ashe’ Power? What is that? Ashe’ or Ase is a concept from pagan witchcraft. It is a concept from Santeria:

The meaning of the word Ase is the name given by the Yoruba to the life force… Segun Maupoil (quoted by e. dos Santos, 1986) ase is magical and the invisible force sacred of all divinity, all to be lively, of all things… Does not appear spontaneously. Accurate to be transmitted. Any change of realization in the existence depends on the Ase… And, as to force some laws it obeys: (1) It is absorbable, weared, manufactured and cumulative. (2) Can be transmitted through certain material elements of certain substances. (3) Once transferred by those substances to beings or objects are maintained and renewed the power of realization. (4) Can be applied to different purposes. (5) Qualities vary according to the combinations of elements which constitute and these in turn are carriers of a certain load, an energy in particular which gives you true power of preparation. The Ase of the Orisa, for example, it is re-supplied through offerings and rituals, transmitted through the initiation and activated by individual behaviour and rituals. (6) Can decrease or increase. The Ase is located in a wide variety of elements of the animal, vegetable and mineral Kingdom. It is in fresh water and salt water, earth elements… Two Elbein Santos (1986) presents a classification of the Ase in different categories: blood vermelho, branco blood and blood preto.

In the beginning was Ashé. When Ashé began to think, Ashé became Olodumare. When Olodumare acted, He became Olofi, and it was Olofi who out of a part of himself created Obatalá.

The concept of ashé is central to understanding right and wrong in Santeria. Ashé—from the Yoruba Asé—is, like the Hindu term dharma, a dynamic and hard-to-define concept. While the word ashé has become part of the popular Cuban lexicon, meaning “luck” or “charisma,” its ontological meaning is much deeper, referring to a sense of order and balance in the universe. Ashé is the ultimate source of everything. Santeros, or priests of Santeria, view the universe—including God and the orishas—as being inhabited by codependent beings who have responsibilities to one another. These responsibilities, spelled out in such orally transmitted works as the oracle of Ifá, are all conducive to the attainment of order and balance. Imbalance (lack of ashé) is experienced by the individual as a dysfunctional emotional, physical, or economic state. When a person experiences imbalance, he or she consults one of the oracles of Santeria to find out the cause of the imbalance and an appropriate remedy. This usually involves some sort of offering to the orishas or to ancestral spirits, as well as practical advice from the reader of the oracle—usually a santero or santera—on how to regain the lost balance. Western bipolarities such as good and evil or God and Satan have little meaning in Santeria. For santeros, “evil” is a relative term; there are no absolutes. Evil, sin, and pain call all be defined as lack of ashé—imbalance. A “good” person by Western standards could conceivably fit Santeria’s definition of evil as one who causes imbalance. The following hypothetical case will demonstrate what I mean: A Roman Catholic priest in a small Latin American town cuts down a tree to which local santeros give offerings. The priest feels he is helping his neighbors by eliminating a temptation to practice idolatry, a mortal sin. The santeros, however, feel that the Catholic priest has caused a very serious imbalance. Once santero consults an oracle, which indicates the Catholic priest will suffer the consequences of having caused this imbalance. That night, the priest suffers a heart attack and dies. Christians denounce the santeros as belonging to a satanic cult that used black magic to harm a saintly man.

Two central concepts in some African-derived religions are ase (or axe) and konesans (connaissance). Ase is the divine force, energy, and power incarnate in the world. Olodumare gives ase to everything, including inanimate objects. Ashe is the power behind all things in the universe. It enables people to find balance in life. The orishas are bearers of ashe. Santeros (Santerían priests) use ase to provide blessing and healing to devotees. "Ashe is a current or flow, a groove that initiates can channel so that it carries them along their road in life. The prayers, rhythms, offerings, taboos of Santería tune initiates into this flow" (Murphy, 1993, p. 131). In Santería, herbs are impregnated with ashe. The color of the Obatala conducts ashe. Part of the Vodun initiation ceremonies gives the priest intuitive knowledge, or konesans, enabling him to understand people, diagnose problems, and perform healing. Read more: Religion - African Diaspora - Spiritual Assets: Ase And Konesans - Ashe, Flow, People, and Power - JRank Articles Sooo… We have pagan, black supremacist communists at the head of what can only be called a coup at a major university. There are clearly forces at work that are not in our view, probably Soros or others. Just what is happening at UM Columbia?