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Letter to the Editor | We Must End Racist Discrimination on Campus and Beyond
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The faculty of the Cornell Coalition for Justice in Palestine stand for Palestinian human rights, sovereignty, liberation and the right to resist.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/racism/)
The faculty of the Cornell Coalition for Justice in Palestine stand for Palestinian human rights, sovereignty, liberation and the right to resist.
Former Cornell Tech visiting lecturer and researcher J. Khadijah Abdurahman alleges that racism was at the root of her recent firing.
At last week’s Faculty Senate meeting, proposals were heard on new anti-racism education requirements and preserving academic freedom.
We, as former members of the Presidential Task Force on Campus Climate, write this statement with pained hearts as horrifying events unfold at our alma mater, and not for the first time. In the fall semester of 2017, several hate crimes took place on and off campus, prompting us to improve campus climate. We did not expect to be here three years since those events. President Martha Pollack appointed members of the Task Force to identify goals, strategies and values that would lend the university guideposts for how to respond ethically and effectively the next time racism would rear its ugly head.
The administration has avoided taking direct actions in response to the “Racist, Misogynistic Harassment Strikes Cornell S.A. Members After Disarmament Resolution,” and this has dashed the last of any lingering hopes we had. We want to remind the Cornell administration that our work was not performative, perfunctory or superficial.
Ithaca police arrested a suspect on multiple counts of fourth degree criminal mischief as a hate crime related to a recent spree of anti-Semitic and racist vandalism.
Isabel Wilkerson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author addresses Cornell community in lecture on Wednesday, diving into the continued implications of structural racism and inequality.
But still, there is more we can do. No matter where you are — whether playing video games, on campus or elsewhere — you’ll encounter racist incidents like this. It starts with us calling them out and no longer tolerating racist remarks wherever we come upon them, whether behind screens or to your face.
Responding to the national conversation about anti-racism and two student petitions, the University announced several new initiatives, spanning academics, staff and the Cornell University Police.
After a video of the incoming freshman using a racial slur circulated on Twitter, the University confirmed he will no longer attend Cornell.
A source close to the program confirmed that the incoming freshman will no longer be a part of the football team.