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Vol. 80, Issue 29 April 29,2013 Issue 29 // 4.29.13 www.unews.com UNIVERSITY UMKC’s Independent Student Newspaper NEWS Past is prologue to chancellor Leo Morton contrasts upbringing with racial realities today Chancellor Leo E. Morton contrasts his upbringing in Birmingham, Ala., with ‘The New Jim Crow’, a set of legal and social obstacles faced by African Americans today. PHOTO // Nathan Zoschke Peter Makori Copy Editor period in which it was illegal in that region spoke to the U-News in his office, stressing laws have now been done away with.” for blacks to attend the same schools as that students of today can take advantage of Morton said the Jim Crow culture made Chancellor Leo E. whites, sit together on a bus or drink from a prevailing favorable environment to get the life very hard for African Americans, and Morton looks the part the same water fountain. best out of their education. only the most determined made it through ofUMKC a suave, prosperous chief executive who school. has spent a lifetime rushing between board I really want to hear about this ‘New Jim Crow’ because I He said, “But the laws were in place to meetings, fundraisers and high-profile civic make sure there was separation in housing, events. “ knew about the old Jim Crow up-close and personal. employment…there was separation in every He is, in fact, living testimony to what hard -Chancellor Leo E. Morton walk of life, separate water fountains…It was work and determination can accomplish. ” pervasive.” Morton is the epitome of success achieved Morton lamented that as the old Jim despite a harsh upbringing at a time when it Early this month during a Phi Kappa Phi Morton also shares a different reality. Crow was abandoned, a new form of Jim was impossible for most African Americans honor society function in which dozens of He acknowledges that a new Jim Crow has Crow has taken shape in American society to imagine moving beyond the position of UMKC students were initiated, Morton emerged, one very different but more subtle today, undermining important gains of the janitor. discussed how it was impossible in the 1950s than that of the mid-20th century. Civil Rights movement. Morton, the first African American and 1960s for a black student to aspire to “During the time I was growing up in the Morton was introduced to the concept by to lead UMKC as chancellor, grew up in more than a menial job. South, things were a lot more overt,” Morton Michelle Alexander, a lawyer and civil rights Birmingham, Ala., during the Jim Crow era Morton, who has a humble, personable, said. “In fact, there were these Jim Crow laws activist who authored the book, “The New of the 1950s and 1960s. This was mostly a straight-speaking and unassuming presence, that made segregation legal. Most of those Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age CONTINUED // Page 3 2 News April 29, 2013 Vol. 80, Issue 29 News 3 faculty profile Morton: Continued from Cover Robert Unger retires of Colorblindness.” She delivered last year’s Morton, whose father owned a business laws” that required harsh sentences, up to Technology. Martin Luther King, Jr., keynote address at in the all-black neighborhood in which they life in prison, for any two-time felon who He suggested a lack of vision and a sense UMKC. lived, brought up the infamous murder of received a third conviction. President Bill of purpose are responsible for the mess in Beloved journalism professor leaves big shoes to fill “I was asked to introduce her, and I said I a teenager from Chicago who was visiting Clinton, in 1994, hailed the passage of a which some students find themselves. really want to hear about this ‘New Jim Crow’ Mississippi. federal three-strike law. “Students who don’t succeed have poor Andreina Byrne Staff Writer correspondent and columnist. because I knew about the old Jim Crow up- His crime was that he allegedly flirted Since the introduction of mandatory time management,” Morton said, using Unger has covered five presidential elections, three wars and close and personal,” Morton said. with a 21-year-old white woman. sentencing, often involving drugs, student athletes as examples of those who After two decades of teaching in the UMKC two uprisings on the West Bank of Israel, and written a book Alexander’s book talks about a new form of “Two weeks after my 10th birthday incarceration has skyrocketed in the U.S. must learn to effectively manage their Communications Studies Department, Professor Robert discrediting the FBI’s account of the Union Station Massacre racial discrimination in America camouflaged in 1955, a 14-year-old Emmett Till was time. “Student athletes have good time Unger is retiring, though his legacy of investigative journalism in Kansas City. in the war on drugs. Discreetly, it lays the mutilated and shot in Money, Mississippi,” Morton shares vision for management. will not be forgotten. "I've been overseas more times than I can remember," Unger ground for the long-term incarceration of Morton recalled. “He didn’t know that in the students, UMKC “Students who have not been busy don’t get "Bob's Pulitizer Prize-winning résumé in daily newspapers said. "Getting to know people, getting to understand them a African Americans and other people of color. South you did not look at white women.” it. When I was in high school, I engaged in speaks for itself," Communications Studies instructor little bit, I think that's what I love. The real people out there, I Morton said, “What she describes was the Morton said many young men who are Despite today’s obstacles, Morton athletics, entertainment, leadership positions Jonathan Rand said. "His reporting skills were never more miss them. I'd like to go back to that." situation where today some of the laws we released from prison lack job skills. envisions a chance to succeed for those who and worked with my dad. You should be impressive than when he wrote the book reconstructing the In 1995, he decided to contain his adventurous spirit and have, about possession of drugs for example, “In essence, if you think about what the are focused on their studies and know what focused. Every class you take should advance Union State massacre, and revealing eye-opening material that settle down as a professor at UMKC. those laws are really dragging a number of old Jim Crow laws did, and the situation now, they want to achieve. you to achieve a certain goal. Know what you had previously been hidden from the public." "It’s a different kind of rush [with teaching]," Unger said. African American and Hispanic males, in that is how to define the new Jim Crow,” he He said that despite the harsh realities of need to get through your course. Unger, who received his undergraduate degree from the "When I see students really succeed and do something well, particular, to some unusually high levels of said. his upbringing, he was focused and knew “Today on this campus, if a student enrolls University of Missouri, spent years with the Chicago Tribune it’s a rush. incarceration.” Morton pointed out that authorities where he was destined to be in life. Morton and they don’t declare a major, which means and Kansas City Star as an investigative reporter, international "I contacted UMKC and said, ‘Ya know, I know you don't He said the ‘New Jim Crow’ ideology has applied harsh prison terms for African holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical they are undecided, the six-year graduation CONTINUED // Page 3 Professor Robert Unger. PHOTO // Andreina Byrne resulted in more young black and Hispanic Americans under mandatory sentencing laws engineering from Tuskegee University, and rate is 18 percent. If you look at a student males in prison than in college. that gained traction during the 1980s. a master’s of science degree in management who comes here to major in engineering, “The cost of maintaining them in prison The 1990s saw the rise of “three-strike from the Massachusetts Institute of medicine or pharmacy, they tend to graduate far exceeds the cost to educate the same on time. They are focused. Even student individuals,” Morton said. “The difficult part athletes graduate in four years at the rate of is that 80 percent of those who come out of In 10 years, UMKC will probably have an enrollment 86 percent with a 3.25 GPA.” prison end up going back.” of 22,000 students, be well connected to the city, Where does he see UMKC going during THROW A BUCA-STYLE Morton said the so-called “war on drugs” the next decade? has systematically destroyed the potential of have robust research, supply more engineering He predicted, “In 10 years, UMKC will BOOK many young blacks, just as the old Jim Crow talent to the Kansas City region, probably have an enrollment of 22,000 GRAD Book it at Buca or Order PARTY our Party Pans To Go. laws did in the South. students, be well connected to the city, have NOW! He said, “The reason is, that once you are [promote] continuing education, and robust research, supply more engineering convicted of a felony, you aren’t allowed to talent to the Kansas City region, [promote] live in public housing. You can’t get a job. You have a downtown campus for arts. continuing education, and have a downtown can’t vote. If you can’t make a living, you end campus for arts.” up committing crimes.” “-Chancellor Leo E. Morton ” [email protected] Unger: Continued from Page 2 have much of a journalism program there,’" journalism students’ lives that he has touched.
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