This morning, University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe resigned in the middle of organized student protests, a hunger strike, and a walkout by the school’s football team. Why is this happening, exactly? Apparently, it is because Wolfe has too much “white privilege” to care about black students.

The protests began after the student government president, who is black, said in September that people in a passing pickup truck shouted racial slurs at him. In early October, members of a black student organization said slurs were hurled at them by an apparently drunken white student. Recently, a swastika drawn in human feces was found in a dormitory bathroom.

More recently, two trucks flying Confederate flags drove past a site where 150 students had gathered to protest on Sunday, a move some saw as an attempt at intimidation. One of the participants, Abigail Hollis, a black undergraduate, said the campus is “unhealthy and unsafe for us.”

So, there were two separate incidents in September and October. How the fecal swastika got conflated with the two previous incidents is a little confusing, but it is now part of the official timeline of racist events. And then Confederate flags drove by a protest. There is no knowledge of who was driving those trucks or if they were even students.

And amidst all of this, graduate student Jonathan Butler decided to stage a hunger strike in protest.