Posted on 10/25/2017 6:25:37 PM PDT by grundle
Eastern Michigan student Mikea LaPierre holds a sign in protest of the racist graffiti in 2016.
Campus police noted that they had committed more than 1,080 hours to investigating the incidents, with the help of the FBI and the Michigan State Police, among others.
EMU President James Smith said in a statement to the campus community that the vandalism “created significant pain, fear and distress among our students, faculty and staff” and that he had felt angry about them as well.
The incidents prompted strong reactions throughout the community, both on and off campus. The faculty senate condemned them and held a day-long teach-in about racism and diversity, and some professors held a vigil at one of the vandalized buildings, wearing black to show support for students of color. Student leaders, Ypsilanti city officials and NAACP members held a candlelight vigil. More than 100 students marched to the university president’s house, demanding action. Last fall and in the spring, the otherwise quiet campus of Eastern Michigan University was hit by three ugly incidents of vandalism targeting blacks.
The first came in September, when “KKK” was sprayed in red, white and blue paint on the wall of a dormitory, along with a threat that used a racial slur and told blacks to “leave” the school in Ypsilanti, about 11 miles southeast of Ann Arbor.
Then, on Halloween, the same ominous hate message using the n-word and ordering blacks to leave showed up on another building, this one right next to the campus’s monument to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
In the spring, a third racist message was left in a men’s restroom stall.
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“Also, the social justice warriors usually end their protest whenever it turns out that the hate crime that they had been protesting against turns out be fake. “
Oh, you mean like when the Ferguson/Michael Brown Hands Up Don’t Shoot thing turned out to be a lie - right?
Wake me when the racebaiters that tried to exploit the situation have a public meeting to formally apologize for their systemic, stereo-typic and knee-jerk racism towards white students on campus following this incident
These people are fools. I guess it's why they get hoaxed so often - keeps their hate going - props up their stupid hateful beliefs. Here's a flash guys - it's NOT 1964.
Black Lies Matter?
What they don’t teach on campuses: Stop making sh*t up, stop instigating.
On my college campus a divisive scandal happened where anti-black flyers were printed out.
It divided the campus. Two weeks later, it was determined that the flyers came out of a black student’s printer.
There was nothing funny about it. Black students who knew it was BS got slammed for calling it out; they were lectured repeatedly that if they were white students’ friends they were part of the problem.
No one won this “thing” but thank God it didn’t ruin the friendships it was designed to ruin in the particular case I mentioned.
We were all disgusted, pissed, etc.
Do not bear false witness.
Can I get her phone number?
Black Votes Matter.
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