Posted on 03/01/2010 1:32:14 PM PST by dano1
The Guardian, UCSD’s student newspaper, has printed a statement that it says was written by the student who hung a noose in the campus library last week.
The student — who remains anonymous — claims that last Tuesday, two days before the noose was found, a friend of hers fashioned it from a piece of rope she had found on the ground, “without thinking of any of its connotations or the current racial climate at UCSD.” She herself then carried the noose with her to the library “and ended up hanging it at my desk.” It was, she says, “a mindless act and stupid mistake.” When she left the library hours later, “I simply forgot about it.”
The student says that she didn’t learn of the noose’s discovery until Friday morning. “Ashamed and embarrassed,” she called campus police and confessed. “As a minority student who sympathizes with the students that have been affected by recent issues on campus,” she writes, “I am distraught to know that I have unintentionally added to their pain.”
An editor’s note at the end of her statement says that the paper “has verified the author’s authenticity.”
The full text of the statement, which at this writing is only available in PDF form at the paper’s website, appears below.
I have a story that needs to be heard. I am the girl you’ve read about, the one who hung the noose in Geisel Library.
Firstly, I’m writing to apologize. I don’t have an excuse for what I did, and I deeply regret it.
Secondly, I’m writing to hopefully put a little bit of faith back into the UCSD campus by clarifying that it was not an act of racism. This is what happened.
I found a small piece of rope on the ground earlier in the day. While I was hanging out with my friends a bit later, we tried jump- roping with it and making it into a lasso. My friend then took the rope and tied it into a noose. I innocently marveled at his ability to tie a noose, without thinking of any of its connotations or the current racial climate at UCSD. I left soon after with one of my friends for Geisel to study, still carrying the rope. After a bit of studying I picked up the rope to play with, and ended up hanging it by my desk. It was a mindless act and stupid mistake. When I got up to leave, a couple hours later, I simply forgot about it. This was Tuesday night. Three days later, on Friday morning, I found out that the noose had been found and construed as another racist act on campus. I felt so ashamed and embarrassed, and the first thing I did was call the campus police and confess. I was hoping to clarify that this was not an act of racism before the incident got a full reaction from the campus. I gave my statement around 9 a.m. They thanked me for coming forward and for trying to clear up the issue. Later, I received a campuswide e-mail saying that I confessed and had been taken into custody, which simply wasn’t true. One thing that is true is that I have been suspended. I know what I did was offensive — regardless of my intentions — I am just trying to say I’m sorry. As a minority student who sympathizes with the students that have been affected by the recent issues on campus, I am distraught to know that I have unintentionally added to their pain.
HEH HEH....GMTA....I should have read the thread through first. LOL
I will add that a black perp would definitely know better since they grow up an an environment that is hypersensitive to this kind of garbage. But an Asian perp is more likely to be oblivious to the political implications, and (especially for a young woman) probably doesn't pay that much attention to the news.
Must not be a white rich kid who plays Lacrosse.
The fact that the student was not identified as a minority in the initial release of info by UCSD make this highly suspect, IMO.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2460404/posts?page=3#3
""UC San Diego police confirmed that the student contacted them Friday morning and acknowledged responsibility for placing the noose the night before on a lamp fixture atop a seventh-floor bookcase in the campus' main library. Police did not release the woman's name or race or provide any information about a motive."
What do you want to bet that this means that the perp was herself black? ""
The student tries for a bit of gallows humor.
Because, in the minds of rational, intelligent human beings, it's really not a big deal. It's a small piece of rope. Nothing more.
It's not as if they erected a gallows with a series of nooses (noosii?) in the school courtyard.
How many times has this type of thing happened in the last 10-15 years... with the excuse being these minority folks are trying to draw attention to an issue or a cause?
Wasn't there a prof. a few years back that said she had received a hate mail/letter... it turned out she wrote the letter herself?
I though you said the minority student hung a moose in the library. I am a bit sensitive about that, having been expelled from Bowdoin for more or less the same prank.
What I was wondering is where a minority student at UCSD even found a moose. Is there a federally funded program of some sort that matches up minority students with exotic fauna? That would be quite a stimulus!
Except for the moose. BTW, why a noose anyway? I should think a bowline in a bight or a barrel hitch would be more than adequate.
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Women? No. Women her age? Never. Guys on the other hand, hell I pass a couple every morning whilst walking into cubicle land.
If she had been any flavor but black, she would have been expelled.
This appears to be a deliberate attempt to inflame tensions, for the purpose of helping black students extort more "gimmes"
A moose bit my sister.
Minority student? It could be a Samoan student who put up the noose. Or a Mexican kid
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/01/ucsd-noose-hanger-apologi_n_481105.html
Some HuffPo comments and pretty good and rational. Lots of libs are sick of being guilt tripped via fake racial dramas though they buy into the overall lib agenda
As we all suspected, the only people guilty of placing nooses on a campus are people of the "minority" groups.
There has been more than one case of blacks trying to set up stunts, screaming racism and then get caught in the act. Blacks may know better but that doesn't stop some of them from doing it. I will bet good money the minority group this woman belongs to is black.
A dead rat was hung by a noose in an Airman’s room when I was in the Air Force. It was tied so it would hit him in the face when he opened his door. I didn’t have anything to do with it. He couldn’t scream bloody murder since he was White.
EXTENDED QUOTE FROM STUDENT ACTIVISTS' BLOG BEGINS HERE
*** " We are in a state of emergency my friends. Latest news is that a NOOSE was found hanging on the 7th floor of Geisel Library. People ask whats the big deal? Why is everyone so upset? I’ll tell you why take note of this exerpt in the autobiography of Angelo Herndon titled “Let Me Live”:
“I know many stories about Negroes who were lynched on no more just provocation than this. Sometimes the lynch mobs need neither provocation nor excuse to carry on their bestial orgies. Often I used to read with horror about the lynching of some Negro worker in the South. The most gruesome, the most disgusting lynching story I ever heard was that which concerned Hayes and Mary turner, Negro sharecroppers in Georgia. They were pauperized and their landlord had tried to rob them of everything they had produced on their land with the toil of their hands and the seat of their brows. The share cropper was man enough to stand up for his rights. He demanded that the farm products be divided equally, as had been agreed upon at the beginning of the year. The landlord grew violently abusive. He threatened him and said he would “fix” him. Terrified out of his wits, for he knew that his landlord would not stop at anything to revenge himself, Hayes Turner tried to make a quite getaway. But his landlord had not allowed grass to grow on his track. He quickly organized a posse of hooligans and the most disreputable elements in the community and gave chase to the runaway. The posse, led by the County Sheriff, caught up with Hayes Turner at the fork of the road near Barney. THEY STRUNG HIM UP ON A TREE AT WAYSIDE WHERE HE HUNG FOR TWO DAYS. Hysterical and grief-stricken, Mrs. Turner was heard to remark that she would have the lynchers arrested. When the lynch mob heard of her determination they decided they were going to teach her a lesson for such a presumption. Although she was in the eighth month of her pregnancy, THEY STRUNG HER TO A TREE AND BROKE HER NECK. THEY HANGED HER BY HER FEET AND POURED GASOLINE OVER HER. As she burned, the mob howled with glee. Then one maniac, wielding a hog-splitting knife, RIPPED HER BELLY OPEN AND THE LITTLE INFANT FELL OUT. ONE OF THE LYNCHERS STAMPED THE INFANT WITH HIS HOBNAILED SHOES INTO THE EARTH. Then the mob, driven with wild bestiality, began to howl like wolves and in their criminal sadism fired hundreds of bullets into her lifeless body.”
" This my friends is the BIG DEAL. This my friends is what a noose symbolizes and if the individual that put this up or the individuals that agree with that person putting this noose up for everyone to see agrees then they are perpetuating this very act of violence and genocide of a group of human beings. So now its time to mobilize MORE THAN EVER before. It is time to come together in solidarity and struggle. Tomorrow 8am library walk WEAR ALL BLACK AND BE READY TO HAVE OUR VOICES HEARD!!!!!!!"
" Love and Solidarity," —————-
END OF EXTENDED QUOTE FROM STUDENT ACTIVISTS' BLOG
The above captures the intensity of how a very small minority of students, reacted to the discovery of the noose. As the pictures from the demonstrations show, the students who are protesting are mostly African-Americans, but also include many students from other ethnic backgrounds.
It seems to be that students seem to be reacting to these recent events with either indifference or intense anger. I would say that perhaps 5% of students and faculty who are worked up about this at most( just guessing these figures ), are demonstrating. For this small fraction of the community, the above blurb posted by some unknown individual gives one a sense of the intensity of reaction.
But for the other 95%, again based only on informal observation, it appears to me that most students on campus act as though they couldn't care less about any of this hubbub, other than to wish it would go away. One generally sees comments from students to the effect that people are over-reacting. My guess is that it's a generational thing. IMHO, these students just see race relations from a different perspective than did their parents' generation, for better or worse. But really most students on campus seem to be totally uninterested in all the recent protests and convinced that much too much is being made of the whole affair.
To me, seeing this 95% of young people on campus who seem to have tacitly resolved to simply ignore this whole thing until it goes away provides one of those mildly disquieting occasions when one suspects that the 20 year-olds are a lot smarter than one's self.
You're on. I say definitely not a black, quite possibly an Asian, and most likely no malice intended, based on the following:
Location - the university library is an Asian stronghold. A genuine provocateur would target a black fraternity, diversity dorm, black professor, etc. Something unmistakable and in-your-face. Furthermore, a black perp would stick out like a sore thumb in the library, if for no other reason than their small representation at UCSD (2%).
Candor - she came forward and admitted what she did. Let's just say that some groups are more likely to take responsibility for things than other groups. And in general, people who are up to no good usually don't come out and confess to it, especially if they have not been caught yet.
Cover story - if this was a staged "civil rights" incident, the perp would have claimed she did it to "raise awareness of racism on campus, in light of that awful frat party." No way an "activist" would use the cockamamie story in the article.
Reaction - if the perp was black, the authorities would turn the incident into a "teachable moment" and shame the racist UCSD community for provoking her into finally taking action against her oppressors. Like Rosa Parks and Henry Louis Gates Jr. Instead, the perp was suspended.
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