Activism

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#BlackOnCampus

#BlackOnCampus (2015) is a Twitter hashtag that went viral this week in the wake of protests against racism at US universities – Yale, Mizzou and, now, at Ithaca College. In all three cases, those in authority refused to face up to the racism at their universities.


Racism at universities is nothing new: PWIs (Predominately White Institutions) have always been racist. First by not admitting Blacks at all, then by making them and other students of colour feel unwelcomed and unsafe, turning a blind eye to the racism they face, writing it off as “isolated incidents”, being “oversensitive” and so on.


Black Twitter weighs in:

 

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#BlackLivesMatter Tweets 11.12
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#BlackLivesMatter Tweets 11.12

#BlackLivesMatter #Mizzou Tweets 11.8
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#BlackLivesMatter #Mizzou Tweets 11.8

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Drop the I-Word Campaign. Please sign.

We launched the Drop the I-Word campaign in September 2010 to eliminate use of the dehumanizing slur “illegal” to describe immigrants. By Spring 2013, the Associated Press, USA Today, LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and many other news outlets dropped the i-word, affecting millions of readers daily nationwide.

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No human is illegal.

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#PoliceBrutality Tweets 11.3

#BlackLivesMatter Tweets 11.2
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#BlackLivesMatter Tweets 11.2

#BlackLivesMatter Tweets 10.30
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#BlackLivesMatter Tweets 10.30

#BlackLivesMatter Tweets 10.23
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#BlackLivesMatter Tweets 10.23

#BlackLivesMatters Tweets 10.22
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#BlackLivesMatters Tweets 10.22