My first, and final, thought is...”I don’t care!”.
If these “students” are so afflicted with an inferiority complex about being black that everything they see, or hear, is a “trigger”, then they need some serious therapy...not “reparations”.
They seem to be seeking out all of the stereotypical things that they used to bash “whitey” about, and turning them into “inanimate object racism”.
I’ve been eating bananas, watermelon, and fried chicken from a very young age...long before I knew they were stereotypically associated with blacks. That connection was originally made by journalists, cartoonist, Hollywood, and later TV.
As time passed, I got busier, and busier, just living and learning life...survival skills, like education, skills, and a trade. I guess I foolishly thought that everyone else was doing the same thing. /sarc
Since the 1960’s the minorities, and the liberal press, have had us walking on eggshells to avoid “doing” the wrong thing, or “saying” the wrong thing, lest we are rubber stamped as “racisits”.
Now we’re up to transgender “pronouns”, and other trigger words that light up the gay, and feminine movements.
I still refuse to live my life walking on eggshells to appease these, mostly ignorant, “groups”.
I refuse to live my one life, trying to pacify these overgrown adolescents who go radical while trying to get attention; “attention” is a drug to them, an addiction fostered by their parents in spoiling them rotten.
My children are grown, and are doing well...in part because I guided, disciplined, and instilled pride in them...not for being white, but for being good human beings.
The meme that blacks “cannot be racist” is a myth right up there with unicorns and the tooth fairy. It’s an excuse they have created (aided by the media) to give them totally immunity for being...well...”racists”.
When I read, “kill all white people”, and they tell me they’re “not racist”, I know where the total stupidity lies...and it ain’t all me.
People aren’t “groups”, people are individuals, and that’s how I treat them. Hiding behind a hate group is the cowards’ way to negotiate life. If they don’t have you outnumbered, outsized, or outgunned...they run like cowards. Individual bravery is non-existent.
So...cowards...run and tell “mommy” when you see a banana peel, a watermelon rind, or a chicken leg bone......I don’t care. They are totally inanimate objects, utilized by the whole human race since whenever. You don’t own them, and getting “offended” by them shows that you, too, believe in the same racial stereotypes as anyone else.
The answer to WHY these students are jumping on the microaggression train is in your statement.
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY !