Grievance is defined as a real or imagined wrong.
The college I attended still held classes on Martin Luther King Jr.’s Holiday. That was a real grievance. The grievance was a fact and the evidence was class attendance. Imaginary grievances aren’t facts. They’re feelings formulated after the fact and the evidence is hyperbole.
Recently Mizzou’s (University of Missouri) president was pressured by students to resign. A student went on a hunger strike and the football team announced they would not play games. The real grievance was racial slurs. Mizzou alums must have thought Mizzou’s president or someone close to him made disparaging remarks again.
In 2003 the wife of Mizzou’s first Black president was recorded advising a Black basketball player, in trouble for domestic violence, not to date White girls because they will ruin your (rear end). When her comment and other derogatory remarks surfaced in the press an offended White parent wrote Mizzou’s student newspaper stating: If the president’s wife was White “and she had been talking about staying away from Black girls there would have been outrage. The NAACP would be calling for [her husband’s] resignation … Jesse Jackson would be threatening economic blackmail and Black athletes and students would be encouraged not to attend MU.”
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