There’s certainly a segment of the population in America which believes that no matter what, certain college protest groups will never be satisfied.
One such example may be the Texas A&M “TAMU Anti-Racism” organization.
Just over a week ago its members demanded a mandatory “racism awareness” course at the school, with group member Emilio Bernal claiming that “Racial justice is just as important as mathematics, English and science, and needs to be treated as such.”
This past Thursday afternoon, TAMU A-R marched to protest school president Michael Young referring to incidents of “perceived” racism and sexual harassment as, well, “incidents” in campus-wide emails.
Apparently the group has a beef with the term because it doesn’t agree such, er, incidents are isolated … as if that couldn’t possibly be the case: “We always get a follow-up email explaining how there are just a few bad apples on campus,” psychology senior Laura Reid said.
And the demand for the “racism awareness” class was part of the mix, too.
The march continued to Academic Plaza, where march participants began singing “Happy Birthday” to “white males,” referencing the university’s 140th birthday. Sociology senior Emilio Bernal explained to the crowd that it is not their birthday if they are black, a woman or a Muslim — it is only their birthday if they are a white male. …
“We are trying to ask President Young if we are really ‘fearless on every front,’” sociology senior Amanda Gomez said. “It’s gone from ‘We’re going to have this mandatory anti-racism class within the next year.’ Then it was by 2017, then 2018. They’ve been trying to turn what we want to be an anti-racism course into a more diluted course about intergroup communications.”
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“I’ve been here at A&M as a faculty member for over ten years now and we have this tradition of structural racism and structural inequality on campus,” [Professor Gil] Rosenthal said. “I have a lot of respect for President Young, but I worry that he is sort of embracing this culture of silence and trying to smooth everything over …We are striving 140 years too late to try to make people of color feel part of the Aggie community.”
TAMU A-R is so concerned about racism that, at one protest, they collected, er, incidents of racism students had experienced and then written down, and stuffed them “into a piñata resembling republican [sic] presidential candidate Donald Trump.”
Guess the feelings of Mexican-American students don’t count for much.
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