White Privilege Mural Vandalized at Pitzer College
Full-blown campus meltdown coming in 3, 2, 1…
The College Fix reports.
Campus mural highlighting white privilege hit with vandalism
A large, 1-year-old mural at Pitzer College that aims to highlight the notions of white privilege and racial inequality in America was recently vandalized.
The mural depicts a white and black man embedded in red, white and blue stripes and stars, with the white man’s eyes covered and the black man’s mouth covered. White spray paint was used to vandalize the mural on the weekend of April 2 with the words “make America” – widely assumed to be the unfinished Donald Trump slogan “Make America Great Again.”
Most students on the private, Southern California-based campus perceive the mural as representing oppressed or silenced black Americans with an “institutionally enforced lack of political voice next to their white counterparts, blinded entirely to the process by their racial privilege,” Pitzer College student Elliot Dordick said in a statement to The College Fix.
In a widely shared Facebook post, one student government representative described the incident as a “hate crime” and “a clear attempt to intimidate students of color” and called for the person who painted it to be prosecuted, the Claremont Independent reports.
While the Pitzer vandalism occurred around the same time as the height of #TheChalkening — a nationwide effort by some students to antagonize their left-leaning peers by writing Trump slogans with chalk on campus sidewalks — this incident differs in that the materials used permanently damaged private property. It was one of at least two spots hit with vandalism over the weekend. The word “Trump” was also spray painted on Pitzer’s clock tower in red.
“Reports of chalk being used are inaccurate. The murals are permanently damaged, the artists of the original works will need to be consulted on proper repairs,” campus spokeswoman Anna Chang told The College Fix in an email. “An investigation by campus administration is on-going.”
Chang declined to state what message campus officials believe they send through the mural’s permanent presence on campus.
Campus mural highlighting white privilege hit with vandalism (The College Fix)
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Students at Ohio State University who attempted to occupy the area outside of president Michael V. Drake’s office late Wednesday night experienced a surprise — and a taste of the cruel, real world — when a senior administrator coolly advised them that they would be arrested and expelled if they didn’t retreat from their “occupied space.”
At last, somebody gets it right.
Frankly, I think the whole ‘student government’ thing makes these bozos assume that they are in a democracy, when, in fact, they are merely customers.