"What its like to be Black on Campus Now"

After reading "What its Like to be Black on Campus Now", it made me realize the affect of being an African American attending college today, and also many years ago. It is eye opening to read the stories about racial incident still happening at multiple universities today. For example, the University of Virginia having "white supremacists wielding flaming tiki torches as they walked through the grounds of the University of Virginia chanting "you will not replace us"". This kind of stuff does not happen here on campus (at least what I know of) so reading this put the real world of racism into a different perspective. All of these incidents that happen on a weekly basis around predominately white campuses has to come to an end. I personally have multiple African American friends that attend college and I have never even realized what they might go through on campus. Some of the stories mentioned in the article are things I have never seen or experienced myself, so I could not imagine it happening to some of my friends. Another part that was really powerful to read was about how the student at the University of Missouri "stopped eating to protest inaction and ineffective administrative responses to racial incidents". This resulted in the football team protesting all football activities until the systems president resigned. It took only a couple of weeks for the president, and the campus chancellor to be gone. It had to come down to students starving themselves, and football players not playing the sport they came to school for, for it to make an effect on racism on that college campus. Universities need to take a more serious precaution to the incidents that happen everyday on campuses, because students in today's day in age should not have to worry about the color of a persons skin. All of the examples mentioned in this article should prove that something needs to change on college campuses around the world.

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