The Adventures of Andrew Lee

10 March 2004

College Archives- CMC’s Hate Crime

Posted by Andrew under: College; Exhortation .

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”- MLK Jr.President Pamela Gann released a statement to the 5-C community about an incident of hate crime yesterday.A professor speaking at a community forum regarding hate speech had her car vandalized with racial epithets, tires slashed, and windows broken. This is the last in a string of events that have rocked the community: beginning with a stupid night of burning a student’s art project (which happened to be a cross), the OAD incident against Asian American students (a frat party asking new members to take a picture of 10 Asians), and lastly the words “nigger” written across the hall from an African American student on a picture of George Washington Carver.

To all in the 5C community, I urge you to join us in the events planned for today. I urge all organizations to condemn this incident and join us in today’s events of solidarity. Check my away message, or the statement released by President Gann.

To those that are committing these acts, STOP. Your actions do not belong in a place dedicated to “Crescit cum comercio civitas”, no civilization or place of commerce can function in an environment of intolerance.

When you you attack the property of a respected member of our community, you attack our community. We will not tolerate this. When you deface George Washington Carver across from an African American student’s dorm, you move the Civil Rights movement back 100 years.

To all who are reading this outside of the 5C community, rest assured that these incidences do not represent the 5C community, and especially not CMC. Even though these incidents may be few and far between, our community will not stand for such intolerance.