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EMU students return to site of racial graffiti in silent protest
The Grand Rapids Press ^ | October 7, 2016 | Martin Slagter

Posted on 10/07/2016 11:36:04 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

YPSILANTI, MI -- More than two weeks after Eastern Michigan University staff discovered racial graffiti spray painted outside of King Hall, students returned to the spot on Thursday, Oct. 6, seeking to create unity and heal as a campus community.

While the the spray paint was gone, the pain associated with the incident was still present for many students. A silent protest march organized by EMU student Desmine Robinson, however, aimed to remove some of the tension associated with the hateful act.

"We want to kill racism and I know we can't chase that feeling out of everyone, but if we can change the mind of even one person, that's what we're trying to do," Robinson said.

After gathering and observing a moment of silence for those who had lost their lives to acts of hatred, about 80 students, faculty, staff and police marched from Pittman Hall to King Hall.

When they arrived students posed together with posters containing positive messages to take a photo in the same spot where racist graffiti once captured the attention across the country on Sept. 20....

(Excerpt) Read more at mlive.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Education; Politics; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: blacks; college; eastern; emu; michigan; racism
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1 posted on 10/07/2016 11:36:04 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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‘Unity’ seems indistinguishable from groupthink.


2 posted on 10/07/2016 11:37:33 AM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends.)
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Do any of these people bother going to class? Or, are they always protesting something?
3 posted on 10/07/2016 11:38:58 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yet another hoax.


4 posted on 10/07/2016 11:39:20 AM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Awwwwwwww sticks and stones, Little Snowflakes

Now try studying for a change, and something worthwhile outside of your “African American Studies” major


5 posted on 10/07/2016 11:41:53 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Romeo + Juliet = True Love hilLIAR + Obambi = ISIS)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Not only a hoax, but these people were in pain from this????? ahhh, once again, delicate widdle flowers.


6 posted on 10/07/2016 11:42:41 AM PDT by Shimmer1 (Do not merely live the length of your life but the depth of it as well.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

And taxpayers will soon be paying for their four year vacation if Democrats have their way.


7 posted on 10/07/2016 11:48:14 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why haven’t they done the same at a Trump graffiti? They have to go to a room and be hugged and counseled.


8 posted on 10/07/2016 11:49:14 AM PDT by SkyDancer (Ambtion Without Talent Is Sad - Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
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The horror...

http://media.mlive.com/annarbornews_impact/photo/screen-shot-2016-09-20-at-122111-pmpng-09a34e13104ac0a4.png

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9 posted on 10/07/2016 11:50:47 AM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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seeking to create unity and heal as a campus community

That's as far as I could stomach. What a bunch of widdle weenies. Their parents need to be slapped hard for failing to raise them to become competent functioning adults.

10 posted on 10/07/2016 11:51:39 AM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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A number of schools in my area have suffered “racist graffiti” writing in chalk on the sidewalks over the last 6 months.

I’m wondering what the students and teachers will do when they see this graffiti on their TV almost daily.

Will they have to protest every time someone is watching the TV and sees “President Trump” in the news scroll at the bottom?

Can they protest individually or will they need to gather a number of others to participate and comfort each other?

Can they take the offensive TV to a “safe space” for everyone to gather?
Or will the gathering need to be at the location of the TV when the “racist graffiti” was seen?

Will campuses need to stop TVs from showing anything other that “cute kitten videos” in order to avoid the psychological damage students may suffer from seeing “racist graffiti”?


11 posted on 10/07/2016 11:53:28 AM PDT by LostPassword
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What did it say to shock our collective weak minded consciousnesses ? “BLACK LIVES MATTER”?


12 posted on 10/07/2016 11:58:57 AM PDT by WENDLE (Hillary gave ManPad missiles to our enemies in Libya-- that was TREASON)
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I don’t believe this was done by a white student. Who in their right mind would risk being killed spray painting this anywhere.


13 posted on 10/07/2016 12:03:25 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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My alma mater. So sad, it has turned into a giant community college.


14 posted on 10/07/2016 12:04:38 PM PDT by madison10 (Proud to be a Deplorable)
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Maybe they meant “Leave N*****s Alone” and they were surprised in the middle of spray painting.


15 posted on 10/07/2016 12:05:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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What was the graffiti? “Black Lives Matter”? “No Justice, No Peace”? “Kill Whitey”? “Check Your Privilege”?

Or was it the UN-politically correct kind?


16 posted on 10/07/2016 12:11:12 PM PDT by IronJack
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My pore li’l heart is rendered, absolutely RENDERED!!! Where can I send money to buy mobile fainting couches fo’ de po’ li’l dahlings?


17 posted on 10/07/2016 12:26:12 PM PDT by libstripper (oHillary is willing to risk her own life to protect her secretive nature. She would rather go to her)
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18 posted on 10/07/2016 12:44:52 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: Cowboy Bob

Where are the frat parties?


19 posted on 10/07/2016 1:27:38 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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Wonder which member of BLM is responsible?


20 posted on 10/07/2016 2:56:47 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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