Black Students At The University Of Michigan Threaten "Physical Action" If Demands Are Not Met….

Members of U of M's Black Student Union issued a set of seven demands today "that they see as vital to improving life for minority students on campus" and gave the university seven days to take action - not respond, take action. Failure to meet their demands will result in unspecified "physical action" against the campus. When asked what this might mean, the spokesman for the group said, “We’re hoping it doesn’t have to come to that,” refusing to give any more details. Their demands?

• We demand that the university give us an equal opportunity to implement change, the change that complete restoration of the BSU purchasing power through an increased budget would obtain.

• We demand available housing on central campus for those of lower socio-economic status at a rate that students can afford, to be a part of university life, and not just on the periphery.

• We demand an opportunity to congregate and share our experiences in a new Trotter [Multicultural Center] located on central campus.

• We demand an opportunity to be educated and to educate about America’s historical treatment and marginalization of colored groups through race and ethnicity requirements throughout all schools and colleges within the university.

• We demand the equal opportunity to succeed with emergency scholarships for black students in need of financial support, without the mental anxiety of not being able to focus on and afford the university's academic life.

• We demand increased exposure of all documents within the Bentley (Historical) Library. There should be transparency about the university and its past dealings with race relations.

• We demand an increase in black representation on this campus equal to 10 percent.

So their demands come down to:

• You will give blacks subsidized housing in central campus
• You will increase the university's budget so that you can give the Black Student Union more money so that we can have "equal opportunity to implement change"
• You will give us a NEW cultural center at the center of campus; renovating our current structure is unacceptable.
• You will make emergency scholarships available FOR BLACKS ONLY; others can deal with the stress that comes with a lack of funds - not us
• You will let us develop curriculum that tells the world how blacks need quotas
• You will give preference to blacks in admissions until we reach 10% of the student population

Failure to capitulate to these demands in seven days will lead to "physical action" on the university campus.

Does that sound like a threat of violence to anyone else?

And does anyone else doubt that, if such a statement had been issued by any other group, they would have been tracked down, rounded up and charged with making terrorist threats?

Being Black at University of Michigan organizers threaten 'physical action' if demands aren't met | MLive.com

Sorry - I have supported the african-american community all of my adult life, my wife is african-american, but I cannot and will not support something like this.  It is a safe bet that acquiescence to these demands by the University of Michigan will lead to similar threats at campuses across the nation; this is a test case.