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October 5, 2011

The Leadership Blog: "No Niggers Please" Sparks a Revolution at MSU

spastasmagoria:

polerin:

theleadershipblog:

Hello!

I am blogging you to inform you, if you have not been informed already, about the several racial incidents that have occurred on campus during this past week.

1) On Wednesday of last week, The phrase “No Niggers Please! :)” was written on the outside of a black girl’s dorm room door erase board. The girl, who was extremely in shock, was moved across campus within a hour by the Hall director.

2) A few days later, a black doll was found in the Bio-medical Science Building hung by a homemade noose, made out of green Mardi Gras beads.

Several other racial slurs and terms have been vandalized on walls in several residence halls during this week and according to students the faculty in the buildings wash the slurs away and refuse to do anything about it.

A week after the first incident, today, the President of Michigan State University sent a campus wide email generally informing all students about the racial incidents that have been occurring. She then proceeds to say that she supports the first amendment right even though it may offend most people. The email showcased no compassion or remorse towards any of the students that were attacked.

Tonight, the Black Student Alliance, held an Emergency Town Hall meeting entitled “Stop Racism”. Hundreds of students of all different races, though mainly black, came together to discuss the incidents that were going on campus, share testimonies and experiences with racism on campus, and lift their voices to hopefully spark a revolution; and yes a spark was created.

The energy within the meeting was historic. I just want to share one quote with you by the opening speaker:

“If action is not taken then we will shake this campus to its core with our voices.”

All Multi-Racial groups on campus are saying “ENOUGH IS ENOUGH” and I’m happy to say that a Revolution is approaching.

I just… no.

ohh kayyy. not applying for any more jobs at MSU. What douchebaggery is this?

Good lord. The weight of ignorance and petty meanness threatens to destroy everything.

Gross. I hate when freedom of speech is reduce to dogma. “Oh, hey, sorry you all were offended, but free speech is important and we NEED to defend all speech, because speech must be free.” Blah, blah, blah, as if speech can be merely offensive and not harmful. What she should have said was, “We believe that speech should be protected, because it is important to engendering a democratic and free society, or what we define as the good. However, we acknowledge that not all speech should be free, because some speech does harm, but also that speech can’t be policed, for some very practical reasons. This is bad speech, and here’s why and here’s what we’re going to do about giving the victims a chance to speak back.”

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