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    Default A Peek into the Missouri School That Dropped Nike Over its Colin Kaepernick Ad

    Also known as saltine U or cracka U



    browsing through the school’s poorly designed website:

    The school likes to refer to itself as “Hard Work U,” which clearly doesn’t play in the same division as “Ball So Hard U”
    No tuition is charged but all students work on campus. Hrmmm, sounds a bit like indentured servitude but, you know, not accruing debt is nice?
    There are dedicated sections for “Vocational Education,” “Christian Education,” “Cultural Education,” and “Patriotic Education”
    “Patriotic education” apparently doesn’t include honoring a citizen’s right to protest and recognizing that, as a constitutionally-protected right, it is among the most patriotic things you can do.


    Surprising absolutely no one, the School of the Ozarks is predominantly white—and by predominantly, I mean 93.6 percent white. As in, mayonnaise strives to be that white-white. But like many other primarily while institutions, the College of the Ozarks managed to corral the six black people who attend the school and strategically place them throughout the website. Because, “Hard Work U,” while shitting on the Constitution, still wants you to know they appreciate diversity. Or something.

    Of course, it is the right of every Saltine American to burn the apparel (and apparel contracts) they want to burn. It’s all a form of free speech, it’s all protected, and it’s all within the realm of patriotism to do so. The College of the Ozarks realizes this at least partially, but the larger issue here is how impossibly, stupidly narrow “patriotism” is defined for them (and others like them)—boiling down, essentially, to “honoring” the military, despite the fact that many service members have defended Kaepernick and other athletes’ right to protest.


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    Missouri shares much with Mississippi in terms of imprinting and indoctrination, born and raised there. That part of the state especially.

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    the root....

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    Quote Originally Posted by guno View Post
    Also known as saltine U or cracka U



    browsing through the school’s poorly designed website:

    The school likes to refer to itself as “Hard Work U,” which clearly doesn’t play in the same division as “Ball So Hard U”
    No tuition is charged but all students work on campus. Hrmmm, sounds a bit like indentured servitude but, you know, not accruing debt is nice?
    There are dedicated sections for “Vocational Education,” “Christian Education,” “Cultural Education,” and “Patriotic Education”
    “Patriotic education” apparently doesn’t include honoring a citizen’s right to protest and recognizing that, as a constitutionally-protected right, it is among the most patriotic things you can do.


    Surprising absolutely no one, the School of the Ozarks is predominantly white—and by predominantly, I mean 93.6 percent white. As in, mayonnaise strives to be that white-white. But like many other primarily while institutions, the College of the Ozarks managed to corral the six black people who attend the school and strategically place them throughout the website. Because, “Hard Work U,” while shitting on the Constitution, still wants you to know they appreciate diversity. Or something.

    Of course, it is the right of every Saltine American to burn the apparel (and apparel contracts) they want to burn. It’s all a form of free speech, it’s all protected, and it’s all within the realm of patriotism to do so. The College of the Ozarks realizes this at least partially, but the larger issue here is how impossibly, stupidly narrow “patriotism” is defined for them (and others like them)—boiling down, essentially, to “honoring” the military, despite the fact that many service members have defended Kaepernick and other athletes’ right to protest.


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    Somebody needs to do something about these bullshit schools.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NiftyNiblick View Post
    Somebody needs to do something about these bullshit schools.
    Do you want to include all black schools like Grambling too?

    Is there a statute of limitations for the blacks blaming all of their woes on slavery?

    I mean it has been a while

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teflon Don View Post
    Do you want to include all black schools like Grambling too?
    No, not the accredited universities.
    Just the bullshit, flyover country cracker schools.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teflon Don View Post
    Do you want to include all black schools like Grambling too?

    Is there a statute of limitations for the blacks blaming all of their woes on slavery?

    I mean it has been a while
    Perhaps ya'll can get some traction on that when you stop blaming all your woes on black folk.

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    Quote Originally Posted by guno View Post
    Also known as saltine U or cracka U



    browsing through the school’s poorly designed website:

    The school likes to refer to itself as “Hard Work U,” which clearly doesn’t play in the same division as “Ball So Hard U”
    No tuition is charged but all students work on campus. Hrmmm, sounds a bit like indentured servitude but, you know, not accruing debt is nice?
    There are dedicated sections for “Vocational Education,” “Christian Education,” “Cultural Education,” and “Patriotic Education”
    “Patriotic education” apparently doesn’t include honoring a citizen’s right to protest and recognizing that, as a constitutionally-protected right, it is among the most patriotic things you can do.


    Surprising absolutely no one, the School of the Ozarks is predominantly white—and by predominantly, I mean 93.6 percent white. As in, mayonnaise strives to be that white-white. But like many other primarily while institutions, the College of the Ozarks managed to corral the six black people who attend the school and strategically place them throughout the website. Because, “Hard Work U,” while shitting on the Constitution, still wants you to know they appreciate diversity. Or something.

    Of course, it is the right of every Saltine American to burn the apparel (and apparel contracts) they want to burn. It’s all a form of free speech, it’s all protected, and it’s all within the realm of patriotism to do so. The College of the Ozarks realizes this at least partially, but the larger issue here is how impossibly, stupidly narrow “patriotism” is defined for them (and others like them)—boiling down, essentially, to “honoring” the military, despite the fact that many service members have defended Kaepernick and other athletes’ right to protest.


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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    beware of false prophets and false patriots
    ... and false political parties.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teflon Don View Post
    Do you want to include all black schools like Grambling too?

    Is there a statute of limitations for the blacks blaming all of their woes on slavery?

    I mean it has been a while
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fentoine Lum View Post
    Missouri shares much with Mississippi in terms of imprinting and indoctrination, born and raised there. That part of the state especially.
    We lived a bit further north (STL area) and you are absolutely right. One of the things that first struck me when we moved up here to the U.P. is the absence of little fundie churches everywhere. There's one Baptist Church that I know of; the rest are mainstream Protestant flavors like Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian.... and also a couple of Catholic churches. Missouri is infested with thousands of the fundie kind, all of them close to 100% white.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    We lived a bit further north (STL area) and you are absolutely right. One of the things that first struck me when we moved up here to the U.P. is the absence of little fundie churches everywhere. There's one Baptist Church that I know of; the rest are mainstream Protestant flavors like Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian.... and also a couple of Catholic churches. Missouri is infested with thousands of the fundie kind, all of them close to 100% white.
    Grew up in Cape Girardeau County. It was about 2 hours south of StLou, also on The River, up old US 61, but that's where we went when we "went to town"; the zoo, ball games, the symphony, botanical gardens. Hour and half now that I-55 went in years ago. Yeah Cape Girardeau, me and Rush.

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