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From The Reporter’s Notebook
Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder dismissed the protestors at his state’s flagship university campus, University of Missouri at Columbia, telling Fox News “we are not racist.” Kinder cited black campus leaders including football player Michael Sam and Mizzou student body president Payton Head as proof that the protesters’ claims of racism were overblown. But as TPM’s Caitlin Cruz points out, having administrators and footballers of color doesn’t dispel the fact that Mizzou’s campus is at a turning point. The university has two choices: Listen and change, or dismiss and retreat.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “I’ve been thinking and trying to figure out why the ISIS would target France. Is it an easier target? Are they more lax on security? Have they done something above and beyond what other countries have done to inspire this wrath? My big fear is that this pushes Marine Le Pen even further up in the polls to the point of controlling the whole government. I haven’t seen any comment from her in the news today…but I’m sure it will come. I’m hearing much of this might have been staged in Belgium. Why is that. This all seems very confusing to me.”
Related: At the G20 Summit, Obama called the attacks on Paris an “attack on the civilized world.”
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What We’re Reading
The surgery that made Ben Carson famous. (The Washington Post)
Life and death in a troubled teen boot camp. (Rolling Stone)
What a jail sentence taught a former senator about prisons. (GQ)
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