From the Editors
To the SU Administration,
We’re tired. We’re pissed off. We also acknowledge that we haven’t been affected by this institutional problem the way our peers of color have.
We’re done with empty promises and “we’re sorrys.” If this past week wasn’t enough, this morning proved that you still aren’t listening to us.
After the events of the past week and a half, and the white supremacist manifesto airdropped in the library last night, how are we supposed to not feel scared? To not worry? To not be angry?
Our parents should not have to call us to make sure we skip class. We should not have to tell our peers to “stay safe” as they walk to class. Last night, a woman was chased down by a naked man at 1:30 a.m. on Walnut Ave after leaving the library and we still haven’t received an email. When your Students of Color tell you they don’t feel safe, you need to listen and you need to act. Fast. Or at least faster.
The coverage on the university’s part is minimal or entirely Greek life-oriented. People of Color are still unheard and unseen. Kent, you say “money isn’t a problem,” and yet two Black women who were specifically targeted by the graffiti in Day Hall Floor Six are still potentially sleeping in the same building as these racist vandals.
It’s time to do better.
To the Students, staff, and faculty of SU,
The administration might not care, but we do. Talk to us. Yell with us. Write and create with us. There is a narrative that needs to be shared that the national media and Syracuse University have failed to acknowledge. If they won’t listen, we, the students, will. This movement won’t go unrecognized or unheard, and it will not be stopped.
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