The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/black-lives-matter/page/3/)
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.
Black America has no stutter. Their demands for equality and justice and safety ring loud and clear. The issue is that these calls fall on deaf ears.
“It’s not just about a one-time de-escalation training or a one-time racial sensitivity training. Those are merely band-aids.”
From city protests to small-town rallies, Cornell students are fighting for racial justice in their home communities.
