The discovery of a noose hanging in a library at the University of California at San Diego has students planning a protest over the third racially offensive incident at the university in the last two weeks, according to The San Diego Union Tribune. More details about the incident can be found at UC Regent Live, a blog. The noose was discovered a day after a student walkout interrupted a teach-in on race at the university, an event held in response to a party that mocked Black History Month and a racial slur uttered by a student satirical group on the campus’s television channel.
Update (4:29 p.m., U.S. Eastern time): The university system’s president, Marc G. Yudof, issued a statement today expressing outrage at the noose, calling it “a despicable expression of racial hatred,” and vowing that “appalling acts of this sort cannot go unpunished.” The statement said a student had come forward to declare that she and two others were responsible for the noose. A university investigation is continuing.
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3 Responses to Racial Tensions Heat Up as Noose Is Found at UC-San Diego
trumajc - February 27, 2010 at 1:20 pm
Look, it’s bing_bongo shilling rapiddigger again with weird comments!!
willismg - February 28, 2010 at 9:52 am
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/shipp/lynchingsstate.htmlFrom 1882-1968 (a period of 86 years) there were a TOTAL of 4743 (25 since WWII) lynchings recorded in a Tuskegee Institute study in the United States. Of these, 3446 were lynchings of blacks (20 since WWII). And while the prevalence of black victims in the Deep South was certainly much higher than whites, in many, if not most states, lynchings were a decidely equal opportunity form of “justice”.http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/shipp/Lynchcauses.htmlFurther, of those documented, the stated cause of “Insult to White Person” accounted for only 85 cases, whereas “Homicide” accounted for 1937. Certainly it can be argued that many of the more justifiable crimes were used as a cover for terrorizing blacks, but it is also probable that most were simply a form of vigilantism prevalent in our country untainted by racism.I understand that imagery can be powerful, but how long has it taken for the number of black on black shooting deaths in the cities of Baltimore, Washington DC, LA, and NYC, say to obliterate the totality of lynchings perpetrated in the years from just after Reconstruction til the Civil Rights era (including the height of the KKK)? I would propose that the common T-shirt image of Al Pacino as “Scarface” or any of the deified, now dead, rappers/gang-bangers should be a more chilling representation of threats to blacks on campus.
waterdog - March 1, 2010 at 8:02 am
willismg is correct, but truth and reasoned logical conclusions have no place in a discussion where some insist on the infusion of emotionalism and fanning the flames of racial division.Instead of responding with a new campus diversity program or hysterical tirades, recognize the incident for what it is, a stupid act committed by individuals who are unable to communicate their points of view through reasonable discourse. Their voices add nothing and should therefore be ignored.