The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/black-lives-matter/)
“A lot of these algorithms that have been developed, whether they are in healthcare or policing or visual recognition, are basically including the biases of the people who develop them,” Okolo said.
Why is it that Asian-Americans never neatly fit into our country’s racial dialogue?
Thank you. You allowed me to see the future and the past in the same gaze and have given me a guiding light that I would never have seen otherwise. Your writings on the Civil Rights Movement have not only fueled my passion for history but granted me something that I would never have envisioned: An avenue to fight for the basic liberties that every person should possess. I have no words to truly convey the impact that your book had on my vision of social change. But, I attempt to speak to it because I wish to, in any minimal sense, express that I would not be as passionate or as understanding as I am now without it.
Prameela Kottapalli ’23 and Louise Wang ’23 have created a Cornell-specific document that includes pages of courses, Ithaca-based advocacy groups and organizations in regions where many students live.
This petition seeks to address the exclusion of Black people in key scenes behind the media which reinforces systematic racism among police and the nation as a whole. The United States has had a rash of police killings of Black people. Part of the reason police kill Black people is because they stereotype all Black people as thugs. This is how the media represents us. Not just news media, but within film and television as well.
A four-hundred-year history of American racial brutality has streets across the country demanding change. And yet unresponsiveness is still being wrapped up aesthetically as a concession. Instead of taking action, various establishments rely on sundry statements from the atonement assembly line to quiet rebellion and save face. Police murders and anti-Blackness are being met with a golden age of apology, in which Cornell is disappointingly and unsurprisingly participatory. Racism, and the magnitude of its gruesomeness, is uncapturable.
Although COVID-19 restrictions altered the way Juneteenth was celebrated this year, students spent time with their families and reflected on both the holiday’s history and how to get more national recognition for the holiday.
The global fury unleashed against police brutality and anti-Black racism in the United States is unabated. As Gil Scott-Heron once said, “America is once again in shock! America leads the world in shocks. Unfortunately, America does not lead the world in deciphering the causes of shocks.” The country has been forced, once again, to do some soul-searching intended, presumably, to decipher the cause of this shock. It is unlikely that this search is deep.
A source close to the program confirmed that the incoming freshman will no longer be a part of the football team.
