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.

A series of racist incidents in the last few months spurred calls for change, and a graduate student, Jonathan Butler, has been holding a highly publicized hunger strike, saying he would eat again only when Mr. Wolfe was gone. Protesters said the president’s responses to their complaints were not strong enough or swift enough. There were also highly charged clashes recently over the rights of graduate student teaching assistants, and over access to abortion and the university’s relationship with Planned Parenthood.

And Butler’s hunger strike prompted black members of the football team to walk off.

His protest got a boost from the decision by African American athletes to boycott games until Wolfe no longer leads the university — a move which drew backing from their white teammates along with Coach Gary Pinkel and prompted the cancellation of football practice.

Well, that pretty much sealed the deal, once the football team got involved. Football is the single-biggest revenue generator for unversities (they lose money on most other sports). It is important to note that the football team, despite the coach’s support, was not united in this decision. But it was too late. The university was in full-out revolt, and Wolfe was the scapegoat.

History Department's Statement in Support of Mizzou Students pic.twitter.com/k9BssUYj8I

— History at Mizzou (@HistoryatMizzou) November 9, 2015

So despite Wolfe’s refusal to resign Sunday, by Monday he was standing at a podium.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXSII6s7bPQ
So now that Jonathan Butler has Tim Wolfe’s job and reputation on a platter, what happens next?

The social justice warriors got Wolfe to resign. I hope that they are happy. Whether they get a racial tension-free campus now is a whole different question. In the meantime, parents should be paying attention and taking the University of Missouri off their lists. Let the social justice warriors reap what they have sown. Between this and the ongoing Yale drama, conservatives would be smart to reconsider what form of higher education they choose to support with their dollars and their children.