Students at U. Michigan Call Police Over Pro-Trump Chalkings
This is starting to get a little surreal.
Meadiaite reports.
U of Michigan Students Call Police Over Pro-Donald Trump Chalkings
The national epidemic of college students being triggered by pro-Donald Trump chalk messages has continued anew, with students at the University of Michigan calling the police to complain after chalkings popped up there as well.
According to The Michigan Daily, messages reading “#stop Islam” and “Trump 2016” were found on campus Wednesday. “The statements, which were largely washed off by Thursday, prompted students to call University police…” they report.
“This is so reflective of our student campus and the depths of racism and the things that students of color have to endure and that the administration is continuously silent on,” Michigan student Banen Al-Sheemary told the Daily.
Al-Sheemary lamented that the university’s Division of Public Safety and Security had not responded to the chalkings. “I’ve been getting bounced around from one person to another, and I understand it’s after hours, but there should be some kind of emergency number besides the police because a lot of students of color don’t feel comfortable calling the police.”
In the end, the students just washed them off themselves. “It’s irresponsible of the administration that we are actually out here with buckets of water and napkins to clean off these hateful messages and the administration isn’t taking care of it,” Al-Sheemary said. “…That perpetuates these really racist and hateful stereotypes that turn into violence and turn into students of color feeling unsafe on campus.”
U of Michigan Students Call Police Over Pro-Donald Trump Chalkings (Mediaite)
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Sounds like a job for spray paint.