Black Students at Salisbury University Caught in Racism Hoax
Don’t students who do stuff like this realize they discredit real instances of racism?
The College Fix reports.
Fake hate: Black students behind racist drawing at Salisbury University library
Officials at Salisbury University (Maryland) have identified several black students responsible for a racist image discovered at the school’s Blackwell Library earlier this month, which featured “a stick figure being hung and labeled with a racial slur” and included the hashtag “#whitepower.”
The Wicomico County State’s Attorney’s Office has declined to press any charges; however, the university is reviewing the matter for school policy violations. If so determined, the students “could” face discipline.
That’s right — could.
As you might surmise, when first discovered the image had “reignited the conversation around race” at the school, and Salisbury President Janet Dudley-Eshbach dispatched a campus-wide message stating that the university “will not tolerate this kind of language or behavior.”
Matthew Jackson, a senior at the university, said whoever drew that image didn’t understand the severity of it, and the fact that people were actually lynched throughout history. And that’s an issue, he said.
“The main problem … was that someone thought it was a joke,” he added. “(It was) an act of immaturity.”
For that sort of image to pop up in this day and age, Jackson said, shows the disjoint of education. People don’t know what happened, or don’t know how severe it was. They don’t seem to understand slavery and racism are not something to make light of.
Jackson said he’s had contact with the administration and that there’s a hope to have a meeting in coming weeks about what happened, and the goals students have been working toward in education and diversity.
Fake hate: Black students behind racist drawing at Salisbury University library (The College Fix)
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When was the last incident of campus racism that didn’t turn out to be a hoax?
It is almost as if the students want to be offended at something but there’s nothing there, so they have to invent something to be offended at.
a campus-wide message stating that the university “will not tolerate this kind of language or behavior.”
If the university genuinely won’t tolerate it, there’s only one effective thing it can do.
But my crystal ball tells me the university won’t do it.
In which case, the university will tolerate this kind of language and behavior.
We’ll see, but I don’t expect any surprises.
It will be tolerated for this particular black individual because he is merely manifesting his lack of privilege into a frustrating vent. Don’t worry, the progressives have you covered, token black guy.
Kind of like a rape hoax, huh? Rolling Stone couldn’t find an example of the “rape crisis” at UVA, so they created one. Now, they are going to pay for their activism, sexism and shoddy “journalism”.