Anna

“…we assert that the violent, racially motivated acts on this campus are symptomatic of a pattern of violence and institutional racism at Cornell University. It is only through addressing the root causes of this crisis that we can hope to avert future tragedies.” -Students Hold Rally Against Institutional Racism (Stacy King; First speaker at rally held at Cornell)

http://www.ithacanews.org/news.htm?newsID=16 (I didn’t know how to make the quote a link.)  

There was a racially inflicted stabbing that occurred in March of this year at Cornell. This article shows that, although we don’t think racism occurs today, it truly does. And we like to think that if racism was occurring at the high school that it would be stopped by the teachers, but at Cornell the problem was the teachers. Students of Cornell came together to demand that the administrators take proactive steps to address issues of racism and violence. Students had a rally to make their faculty aware of what a problem it was. Even after the rally, it was addressed that the administration was still failing to address problems of racism, despite what the students wanted. It’s interesting to me that the students are more aware of racism, than the teachers who had taught them how horrible it was. This raises interesting questions in my mind. Are our teachers only teaching us that racism is wrong because they have to? Or do they truly think racism is wrong? And are some of them even racist themselves?

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