EMU’s Black Student Union Disrupts Classes, Blocks Cars
11th December 2015
Members of the Black Student Union at Eastern Michigan University stormed the halls and classrooms of Pray Harrold Tuesday afternoon, promising the protests would not stop until their list of demands is met.
“All black students report to the hallway! If you want freedom, report to the hallway! If you want freedom report to Welch Hall at 1:30!” The leader of the group was screaming while banging on a drum to get the attention of students and faculty in the academic building.
Since the 1960s there has been this subtle acceptance that being a ‘protester’ somehow absolves a person from polite behavior. Things that would have gotten a non-student locked up somehow get winked at when students are doing the coercion.
“The black students have been asking for these things for years and we are frustrated with the school’s administration,” one of the student protesters told Campus Reform. “These are not new demands; we tried to be peaceful, but our frustration has built up. We want to feel safe, and right now we don’t.”
So the way to ‘feel safe’, apparently, is to threaten others. I see.
When the meeting was over, EMU students and BSU followed two members of the board out to their cars to block them from leaving.
“Hey now! Hey now! We want freedom! Freedom! All these racist ass regents! We don’t need ‘em, need ‘em!” The BSU and other EMU students chanted while arranged in a half-circle, arms linked, blocking the vehicles of two members of the Board of Regents from leaving the parking lot.
After about 10 minutes of chanting, three police officers on the scene were joined by 12 other Ypsilanti Police Officers.
Here’s where a concealed carry permit comes in very handy.
The leader of the group, who would not release his name to Campus Reform, said he felt they won the feud even though they didn’t win the vote because they made the board members fearful.
Yeah, that’s a sure way to persuade them to give up the ‘safe space’ demanded. The standards for admission to EMU must be lower than low.