THE NEW GAME PLAN

The audible heard 'round the world will be remembered as an event that changed history and signaled another defeat for dictatorship. It was the demise of the University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe, who apparently felt no need to address the stench of racism that permeated the campus atmosphere sans his office. And thereafter we've learned the Chancellor, R. Bowen Loftin, has decided to join his head-in-the-sand colleague and exit stage left too.

Former Mizzou President Tim Wolfe Photo CNN

What caused it? Was it the hunger strike? No; was it the black football players and ultimately the football team? No; was it the faculty who embraced the movement? No. Alex I'll take interrupting our tailgate party and potentially causing us to lose an estimated one million bucks, dollars, cash, stacks...get the picture?

In actuality it was all the above but make no mistake the death knell was committing the capitalist crime of interrupting the cash flow. Whether we want to admit it or not, embrace or not, the only thing that really gets society's attention is the loss of a dollar or dollars. But yes the catalyst for change was the hunger strike of graduate student Jonathan Butler who was obviously inspired in disgust by the negligence of the university in addressing the examples of racism that hovered around campus.  And this is standard operation procedure for many American Universities, Governments and some Corporations. So why aren't more people inspired to make a stand? skip some meals? Join some hands? Cross color lines? Well you really don't have an excuse any more. Kids, our youth, who are supposed to learn from us have in this moment become the teachers. 

Jonathan Butler addressing the crowd. Picture Jeff Roberson AP

Before you say well they didn't have anything to lose like your house if you don't make mortgage payments or your car note, you're as wrong as the President of Mizzou himself. They were willing to lose an education which would afford them the aforementioned niceties. They were willing to sacrifice NFL careers and other athletic opportunities that would get them far away from the blight and poverty many players called home prior to entering college. And you don't think they were giving up anything in protest? I can honestly see Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. smiling and saying it still works; non-violent protests still have power. The key is to drop the bomb at the door of the capitalist community so it makes a loud BOOM!

Black and White players and coaches were united Photo ABCnews.go.com

And that's what happened this week in Missouri. The ground swell landed at the door of dollars and and the media, as if on cue, joined the party and made sure the news that had already gone viral via social media grew exponentially in size and scope.  And there you have it, the game plan for change. It hasn't changed it just faded away...but now it's back.

Protest yes; make a stand yes; but more important find the money tree and shake the hell out of that tree until the money leaves fall, branches snap and the limbs get weak. Suddenly and without hesitation a change is gone' come. And it won't be loose change either. It will topple Presidents and Chancellors.

That's the way I see it sitting in The Box Seat. I'm Wayne Box Miller.