It's not like I expect anyone to fight for the cause of local Latinos other than Latinos and I realize the the Black community has their own set of problems when it comes to higher education but what I've seen at UMKC is the folks from the NAACP and other local Black leaders COMPLETELY CUT OUT LATINOS when it comes to any discussion involving diversity or equality. Put simply: It's an all BLACK THING (nullus) when money, admissions or other juicy so-called entitlements come into play. The news of the latest deal is pretty much par for the course and just a sign that neither UMKC nor the NAACP have bothered to step out of the 70's when it comes to "race relations" . . . Ugh.
The University of Missouri-Kansas City promised Friday to do a better job investigating discrimination complaints, shaping a viable Black Studies program, and recruiting and retaining black students and professors.Again, in all of the deal making done by middle-class Black leaders what I've seen is that they simply don't care to hear about how UMKC grossly under represents the local Latino community and how their staff and their student base is comprised of International students (read: rich) South Americans and the like which they try and pass off as a diverse community which (mis) represents Hispanic involvment while students from traditionally Latino areas in and around KC have consistently avoided the place like the plague and would much rather enroll at Rockhurst college (way more expensive) than participate at a school that not only ignores local Latinos and their issues but also promotes professors like Kris Kobach who are actively seeking to get a lot of Hispanics and their grandmothers deported.
The promises came in the form of a memorandum of understanding signed by UMKC Chancellor Guy Bailey and Anita Russell, president of the Kansas City branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
So I'd like to congratulate my old college on their new deal . . . If paying shakedown money to the loudest group of complainers who could care less about real diversity is the way the University wants to go . . . Then they'll get exactly the kind of college they deserve . . . One that is neither diverse or inclusive and relies on the same old stereotypes and methodologies which have made it a school of second choice for so many students in the area.
UMKC supports KKFI and the programming on the station. In particular the Union program. They provide monetary and physical support so the unions can have a radio program on a radio station that, like the unions, does not allow the disabled to participate. Missouri don't you love it.
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