From Inside Higher Education, a report of a demand from the black students at Cornell:
The demand: “We demand that Cornell admissions come up with a plan to
actively increase the presence of underrepresented black students on
this campus. We define underrepresented black students as black
Americans who have several generations (more than two) in this country.
The black student population at Cornell disproportionately represents
international or first-generation African or Caribbean students. While
these students have a right to flourish at Cornell, there is a lack of
investment in black students whose families were affected directly by
the African Holocaust in America. Cornell must work to actively support
students whose families have been impacted for generations by white
supremacy and American fascism.”
And the experience of racism is different, Jones added.
"Everyone from the African diaspora may all experience racism on the
individual level (being called the N-word and being restricted from a
white frat party being only the tip of that iceberg)," Jones said. "But
international students who call another place home don’t have to deal
with the ingrained institutional and structural forms of oppression in
the same way American black students do. (Housing discrimination,
mandatory-minimum sentencing, war on drugs, school-to-prison pipeline,
etc.)"
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