Posted on 12/09/2014 8:10:44 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The president of Smith College was forced to apologize after she sent out a campus wide email saying all lives matter instead of the rally cry of Ferguson protestersblack lives matter.
In the original email, obtained by Campus Reform, Kathleen McCartney used all lives matter in the email detailing the struggle and hurt the Smith community was experiencing following the non-indictment of Officer Darren Wilson, who fatally shot teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
We gather in vigil, we raise our voices in protest; yet we wake again to news of violence that reminds us, painfully, of the stark reality of racial injustice, McCartney wrote.
McCartney also announced the colleges plan to institute a new Chief Diversity Officer to support programs and conversations to advance social justice.
However, it was the subject line that had Smith students up in arms. Students took to social media to chastise McCartney, blaming her skin color for her lack of understanding.
No, Kathy. Please do not send out an email saying All lives matter. This isn't about everyone, this is about black lives, Sophia Buchanan, a Smith student, said on Twitter.
[P]eople are upset because...[K]athy (and other white people) clearly doesnt understand the importance of holding black lives central to the conversation, one student wrote on an anonymous online confessional. Black lives cant be central to the conversation if the word black isnt even in the title.
Six hours later, McCartney apologized in a separate email to the student body, according to the Daily Hampshire Gazette. McCartney alleged that she was not aware the term "all lives matter" could be used by some on social media to supposedly counter the "black lives matter" movement.
Besides apologizing, McCartney also planned a vigil and prayer for Monday afternoon to memorialize Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Tamir Rice. According to the Daily Hampshire Gazette, 130 people attended the vigil.
Sophomore Cecelia Lim told the news outlet that McCartney should have apologized.
It felt like she was invalidating the experience of black lives, said Lim.
The Daily Hampshire Gazette reports that around 50 students marched across campus and blocked traffic in a protest Sunday afternoon.
Smith College, is a private women's liberal arts school located in Massachusetts.
Oh aren’t the blackies just soooooo special. Freaks.
It’s a pathological and suicidal mental sickness.
These liberal madrasses are nothing but reeducation camps.
That charge admission!
Why was she “forced” to apologize for what is possibly the only true, non-biased, non-racist, non-discriminatory comment she has made in years?
I’m sure that was pointed out to her, triggering the correction.
Education will continue to rot until government is out of it completely. Taxpayer money is the only thing that supports these parasites in schools and colleges.
At this point I’m willing to help Iran build a nuke if they promise to use it on Massachusetts.
Indian lives didn’t matter to Michael Brown.
Police lives didn’t matter to Michael Brown.
Close ... these filthy progressives assume the exclusive right to name which are lives. Ask these filthy bastards if an unborn child is alive, and thus a life which counts. That exposes their hypocrisy instantly.
The really great humor to be found here is that the young damsels at Smith (and Berkeley and Columbia, etc) would never, not for one second, deign to be in the same company as the likes of Michael Brown or Eric Garner. In the mind(s) of these fair ladies, they are way ahead of them socially, intellectually, and in every other way. It is only as symbols that Brown and Garner have any value whatsoever.
Helter, only black lives matter, skelter.
Whites can't breathe.
White lives don't matter.
“All lives matter” just isn’t “inclusive” enough. Off to the reducation camp with her.
Sanity has become the exception not the rule. Probably has been for quite awhile now.
So not all lives matter?
Apparently.
“Black lives matter!” as long as they are not a fetus/baby.<<
The same people would not disagree with that statement either.
The original is too threatening...but as long as you can limit your opposing views...
DK
Well she's a liberal, so you answered your own question.
Exorbitant at that!
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