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workinclasszero

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Tue Sep 15, 2015, 07:33 PM Sep 2015

MSA president speaks out about racist incident

MSA president speaks out about racist incident

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COLUMBIA — Payton Head said the first time he was ever called the "N-word" was behind a fraternity house in Greektown when he was walking a friend home from campus at night last spring.

"I'd had experience with racism before, like microaggressions, but that was the first time I'd experienced in-your-face racism," Head, now a senior and president of the Missouri Students Association, said.

He had considered leaving MU but joined MSA instead.

Then on Friday night, Head said he was walking down Hitt Street when a pickup passed him and a passenger repeatedly shouted racial slurs at him.

http://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/higher_education/msa-president-speaks-out-about-racist-incident/article_ac4ebc2c-5b3e-11e5-b4bd-af55f13bae45.html#.VfeZmXMtCk4.twitter


While fox news and hate radio make a 4 time wedded, 80 grand a year civil servant into a "martyr" people like the gentleman in the story face hate and violence everyday.
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MSA president speaks out about racist incident (Original Post) workinclasszero Sep 2015 OP
Tens of millions of rabid racist assholes in America. No doubt. randys1 Sep 2015 #1
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