It almost seems like some of these campus protesters don’t want unity or solidarity.

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports.

Boulder Class Cancels Solidarity Rally After Black Students Object

Students in a class at the University of Colorado at Boulder gave up a planned rally to support protests of institutional racism at the University of Missouri after a black student group at Colorado spoke out against it, The Daily Camera reports. Members of the class “Whiteness Studies,” which examines racial inequality, were to hold the rally on Friday afternoon but canceled it when members of the Black Student Alliance complained about not being consulted.

“We acknowledge that we should have contacted (the group) to see what they were already planning with regard to Mizzou,” wrote Azabe Kassa, an organizer of the rally, in an apology on Facebook. “While we understand that this does not excuse our actions, we learned a lesson in proper allyship.”

Paris Ferribee, co-president of the Black Student Alliance, told the newspaper that the plan amounted to a “slap in the face.” She went on: “They used their white privilege and oppressed voices and stifled voices that are experiencing this every day.”


 
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