When Calls for "Free Speech" Veil Racial Lack of Self-Awareness

Black Students Threatened by Racists at University of Missouri

When most whites are confronted with threats of violence, they call the police. This is not always a viable option for blacks.  Firstly, there are fears of racial profiling, which might result in being mistaken for the perpetrator and executed on the spot, with questions asked later. But secondly the latters' pleas for help may be met with intellectualized diatribes about the perpetrator's constitutional rights of free speech.

This is what has occurred at the University of Missouri, where it took a boycott by the football team to wake administrators up to the fact that frightening racial threats were being made against the black students.  So what is the difference between a threat against one's safety and free speech?  This is where intellectualized racism comes to play.  It is the targeted victims not the  bystanders pontificating about constitutional amendments, who must determine whether a threat has occurred. But what if the potential victims lack the political power to convince non-minorities that the survival of their persecuted race has always depended on their capacity to identify real dangers targetting them specifically?   

A white person with no experience of a family member having been lynched, or of racists carrying out seemingly irrational acts of violence, may not be capable of recognizing a genuine threat to the lives and wellbeing of minorities scarred by a two hundred year history of such victimization.

The former chancellor and president of the University of Missouri, who were forced to resign last week,  would never have had to plead with the academic community to be taken seriously if they felt verbally threatened with harm.  How ridiculously sad it  was that Mizzou administrators were too insensitive to comprehend the fact that a white supremacist's goals in regards to them, as perceived  fellow members of the master race, would be different from the blacks that the man was targeting to "take out".