REPORT: UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI HUNGER STRIKER’S FAMILY AN AMERICAN SUCCESS STORY
Black Lives Matter-influenced activist Jonathan Butler became radicalized at the University of Missouri, despite his family’s reported multi-generational success and affluence. Even though his well-educated family is the epitome of the American Dream, Butler was drawn towards communist heroes like terrorist Assata Shakur and Franz Fanon in college.
The University of Missouri activist grabbed headlines when he became the public face of the movement that successfully forced out two top administrators on Monday. However, Jonathan Butler’s own family story directly contradicts his radical narrative and shows that black Americans can succeed and prosper in the United States, particularly if they apply hard work and a base of traditional religious values.
Butler’s father is Eric Butler, an Executive Vice President with Union Pacific Railroad, according to the Omaha World-Herald. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports Mr. Butler made $8.4 million in 2014.