Report: Spike Lee creating '30 for 30' about Mizzou protests

Nick Bromberg

The Missouri football team's involvement in campus protests during the 2015 season is reportedly getting the documentary treatment.

According to Indie Wire, director Spike Lee was in attendance at the True/False film festival in Columbia, Missouri, over the weekend. Lee watched a 30-minute documentary about the Concerned Student 1950 movement on campus. The Mizzou football team briefly boycotted all football activities because of the movement in early November.

Per the site, Lee, a two time Oscar nominee, is interested in using footage from the short in a potential ESPN "30 for 30" he's creating. The "30 for 30" documentary series has featured the University of Miami football team, Southern Methodist's football program among many other topics since the series' inception in 2009. Systemic racial inequality became the focus of the movement that, at least initially, had a multi-pointed focus.

The emotions captured in the film were evident in last night’s audience, which was packed with University of Missouri students for whom the issues addressed in the film were clearly still raw. Before the film even began the filmmakers received a standing ovation, while five of the original members of Concerned Student 1950 took to the stage to make clear their struggle did not end with Wolfe’s resignation. After the screening the group led the audience in one of their protest chants, while receiving their second standing ovation of the night. A surprise guest in the audience was Spike Lee, who Indiewire has learned is interested in using some of the footage from the documentary for his own ESPN 30 For 30 project about the Missouri football teams' role in the protests.

The CS1950 movement rose to prominence when the football team joined the movement in solidarity with a student who was on a hunger strike until University of Missouri system president Tim Wolfe resigned. Wolfe resigned on Monday, Nov. 9.

The hunger strike ended after Wolfe's resignation and the team also ended its boycott. Then-Missouri coach Gary Pinkel, who posted a tweet supporting his players, has said his support for their decision not to play was the right thing to do.

Earlier this year, Wolfe told friends via email that the football team threw gasoline on a small fire.

http://m.yahoo.com/w/legobpengine/sports/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/report--spike-lee-creating--30-for-30--about-mizzou-protests-230453428.html?orig_host_hdr=sports.yahoo.com&.intl=us&.lang=en-US&_device=tablet/
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True/False: 'Concerned Student 1950' Premieres to Emotionally Charged Crowd, Including Spike Lee

http://www.indiewire.com/article/true-false-concerned-student-1950-premieres-to-emotionally-charged-crowd-including-spike-lee-20160306/
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Ex-Mizzou President: "Football team threw 'gasoline on small fire"

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/ex-mizzou-president--football-team-threw--gasoline-on-small-fire-202603773.html/
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Report: Spike Lee To Direct 30 For 30 Documentary About Missouri Football Team Boycott

http://collegespun.com/sec/missouri/report-spike-lee-to-direct-30-for-30-documentary-about-missouri-football-team-boycott/

Nothing ..but disgust

The whole country better fasten there seat belts.

just another Racist Al Sharpton-Wanna-be!

Redundant: $
CLERGY

Louis Farrakhan
Jesse Jackson
Also Sharpton

Replacements:
ENTERTAINMENT $

Spike Lee
Beyonce'
Jada Pickett Smith

has anyone seen it to comment on it,,,

No, I don't speak of Spike.

Hhhaaa.. Sorry if I offended you.
Please don't make a movie about it & make mega bucks off it & media coverage, & say your an activist & use & abuse all those young minds.

Ugh.. if that wasn't the trurh about Spike..it would actually be humor

whats humorous about a documentary?

or controversial about one?

I support msharmony.

It's nothing but an encouragement to act on prejudice alone, to declare in advance of any factual evidence, that making this documentary is "throwing gas on a fire."

Prejudice is prejudice is prejudice, including when you're so prejudiced that you ASSUME someone else is prejudiced, without waiting for the facts.

You all forgetting, Spike has been boycotted..pre Quentin Tarantino boycott?
* now there are just more reasons *

There were at least two other threads talking about it.

Prejudice? In this case? No...let me try to MAYBE make you understand...

If Im placed in a room with a duck, and told that duck is about to make a sound, its perfectly LOGICAL to think that the next sound I hear is a 'quack.
If a known BlackLivesMatter supporter is gonna direct a film involving BLM, its, again, perfectly LOGICAL to think he will be biased in his direction.
Add in the growing propensity of ESPN to want to air more and more slanted social justice stories (think Bruce Jenner and the ESPY fiasco) and, again, its perfectly LOGICAL to think the finished product will be biased.
Seems SOME only selectively apply LOGIC... go figure.

BTW, as a staunch LSU and SEC football fan, I can assure you that no one around here gives two $hits about Spike Lee's opinion about MIZZOU football...or MIZZOU football in general.

Okay, come back when it's a duck that is under discussion, and your concept will have validity.

I don't like Spike Lee, and haven't found his films to be anything special. I just have a stronger dislike for any time people push for MORE prejudice, and LESS thought, in any arena.

It makes for defective decisions and destructive results, no matter what.

A Message For Higher Ed From Mizzou’s 1,500 Missing Students

http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/a-message-for-higher-ed-from-mizzous-1500-missing-students/

3/10/2016

Education Bubble: The University of Missouri reported a near-25% drop in student enrollment following its unrest. This is the result of political correctness run amok, weak university leadership and inflated college costs.

“I am writing to you today to confirm that we project a very significant budget shortfall due to an unexpected sharp decline in first-year enrollments and student retention this coming fall,” wrote Interim Chancellor Hank Foley in a university memo Wednesday. Instead of a 900-student drop, as Mizzou expected, the university was looking at a 1,500 student drop, and that meant a continuing revenue shortfall as a smaller freshman class moves toward graduation, he explained. With U.S. News and World Report reporting a 46% four-year graduation rate for the school, it’s a steep loss indeed.

As a result, Mizzou has been hit with a $32 million revenue shortfall, and will have to cut expenses 5% and impose a hiring freeze.

Bear in mind that the revenue shortfall was not the result of the Missouri House’s cutoff of $1 million of state money and $7.6 million from UM System administrative funding, which happened earlier this week. The chancellor emphasized that it’s due to the missing students.

That’s the consumer verdict on the educational product the University of Missouri sells for $19,000 a year to in-state students and $32,000 to out-of-state students. Incredibly, the chancellor never mentioned in his memo any reason for their absence. It’s as if they vanished.

But they didn’t vanish. They went elsewhere, because last year’s student riots showed three things:

That the university is loaded with academic zeros such as Associate Professor Melissa Click, a women’s studies “expert” with zero knowledge of journalism, indoctrinating students in radical leftism at Missouri’s famed journalism school and getting caught on camera attempting to stifle free speech. No dissent allowed, and don’t even think about free inquiry.

They also saw a wimpy establishment that permitted “Black Lives Matter” activists to pretty well take over the campus, hurl phony charges of racism at the school’s (leftist) establishment, and then see the university administrators cave to their demands like a bad souffle. In the wake of those protests, the university president was forced to resign, yet the demands of the radicals only grew louder.

Amid this, parents and students saw the same overpriced tuition, bloated administrative budgets, useless majors and inflated salaries that plague all universities.

So they voted with their feet, leaving one of the country’s once-great land-grant universities with a distinguished past academic history in the dust. If that’s not a warning to all universities to clean up their act, what is?

Any young person who wants a descent school, education & a resume, to actually succeed in the real world, isn't going to want this drama

And parents, even if they are paying a small fraction out of pocket, isn't going to want to spend their hard earn money to have their children embarrass or humiliate them by ending up on the evening news.. over crap that may have happen 50 years ago.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-10/7-harsh-realities-life-millennials-need-understand

7 Harsh Realities Of Life Millennials Need To Understand

Millennials.

They may not yet be the present, but they’re certainly the future. These young, uninitiated minds will someday soon become our politicians, doctors, scientists, chefs, television producers, fashion designers, manufacturers, and, one would hope, the new proponents of liberty. But are they ready for it?

Time after time, particularly on college campuses, millennials have proven to be little more than entitled, spoiled, anti-intellectual brats who place far too much emphasis on feelings and nowhere near enough emphasis on critical thinking. To the millennial, words are cause for the creation of safe spaces, alternative ideas must be stifled, and anything they perceive to be a microaggression is enough to send them spiraling into a state of mental distress.

It’s time millennials understood these 7 harsh realities of life so we don’t end up with a generation of gutless adult babies running the show.

1. Your Feelings Are Largely Irrelevant

Seriously, nobody who has already graduated college cares about your feelings. That means that when you complain to your boss because your co-worker mis-gendered you, he’s probably not going to bend over backwards to bandage your wounds. Given feelings are entirely subjective in nature, it’s completely unreasonable to demand everyone tip-toe around you to prevent yours from being hurt. The reality is that people will offend you and hurt your feelings, and they won’t stop to mop up your tears because they shouldn’t have to. Learning to accept criticism, alternative viewpoints, and even outright insults will make you happier in the long run than routinely playing the victim card.


2. You Cannot Be Whatever You Want To Be

This is a comforting lie parents have started telling their children to boost their morale in school. Unfortunately, millennials are now convinced it’s true, especially as society has now decided to push this narrative as well. The reality is if you’re 17 years old and still can’t figure out basic division, you’re not going to be a rocket scientist. If you’re overweight and unattractive, you’re not going to be the quarterback’s prom date. If you lack fine motor skills, you’re not going to be a heart surgeon. It’s okay to accept that you cannot be whatever you want to be. In fact, once you accept this, you’ll be able to focus on the things you can be — the things you really are talented at.


3. Gender Studies Is A Waste Of Money

You heard me. While some millennials taking useless degrees will claim they’re beneficial for teaching or research positions, the reality is that they just put themselves several thousands dollars in debt to learn how to be a professional victim. While you’re struggling to make ends meet after graduation because nobody who pays more than minimum wage is interested in your qualifications and you’re drowning in student loan debt, be sure to check out the next harsh reality before you start complaining.


4. If You Live In America, You’re Already In The 1%

That’s right. Even though you work at McDonald’s for minimum wage because you got a useless, outrageously expensive college degree, you’re still far better off than the vast majority of the planet. Don’t believe me? Fly to Uganda and check out the living conditions there. Fly to China, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Iran, Russia, and even European countries like Ukraine and Greece, and you’ll quickly discover just how well-off you really are. While it may be cool these days to dump on capitalism, it’s the only reason you aren’t already worse off.


5. You Don’t Have A Right To It Just Because You Exist

That includes healthcare, guaranteed income, and somewhere to live. Just because you’re here and breathing doesn’t mean society owes you anything. Like the billions of people who lived before you, working hard is a better guarantor of wealth and the ability to comfortably take care of yourself than begging society or the government to do it for you. Demanding healthcare be a right, for example, is equivalent to demanding government force the taxpayer to pay for it. While that may seem like a good idea in theory, it only leads to rationing of care when costs become unsustainable, which negatively impacts not just your health, but everyone else’s, too.


6. You DO Have The Right To Live As You Please — But Not To Demand People Accept It

By contrast, you do have the right to live however you please, so long as it’s within the confines of the law. If you want to cross-dress, smoke marijuana, drink lots of alcohol, have lots of sex, and, yes, even go to school for gender studies, then by all means, go for it. Government should not be allowed to legislate people’s behavior as long as it doesn’t infringe upon someone else’s rights, but that doesn’t mean society isn’t allowed to have an opinion. You don’t have the right to demand people keep their opinions about your lifestyle to themselves, especially if you’re open and public about it. I have as much of a right to comment on the way you live your life as you do to actually live it. Your feelings are not a protected right, but my speech is.


7. The Only Safe Space Is Your Home

No matter where you go in life, someone will be there to offend you. Maybe it’s a joke you overheard on vacation, a spat at the office, or a difference of opinion with someone in line at the grocery store. Inevitably, someone will offend you and your values. If you cannot handle that without losing control of your emotions and reverting back to your “safe space” away from the harmful words of others, then you’re best to just stay put at home. Remember, though: if people in the outside world scare you, people on the internet will downright terrify you. It’s probably best to just accept these harsh realities of life and go out into the world prepared to confront them wherever they may be waiting.

Spike Lee?


There's a name I haven't seen since the 1980s.