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Title: Black student admits hanging ‘White Only,’ ‘Black Only’ signs near school bathrooms, water fountains
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EAG news
URL Source: http://eagnews.org/black-student-ad ... ool-bathrooms-water-fountains/
Published: Sep 18, 2015
Author: Kyle Olson
Post Date: 2015-09-18 10:57:13 by redleghunter
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Views: 839
Comments: 8
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Cries of racism broke out across the campus of the University of Buffalo this week when students found Jim Crow-esque signs in a building on campus. Someone had posted “White Only” and “Black Only” signs near several bathrooms and water fountains in Clemens Hall. “It brought up feelings of the past of a past that our generation has never seen which I think is why it was so shocking for us to see,” Micah Oliver, president for the Black Student Union, tells ABC 27. More than 100 students turned out to a Black Student Union meeting to discuss the signs. “There was fear expressed, anger, disappointment – all of that,” according to Oliver. And then, Ashley Powell, a black graduate student, stood up in the meeting to admit she had hung the signs, claiming it was part of an “art project,” The Buffalo News reports. Students were reportedly “outraged” and “walked out” of the meeting. Other students denounced Powell’s project as “racist” and “an act of terrorism.” According to the News, “the project was for a 400-level art class titled ‘Instillation: Urban Space.’ Powell said the goal of the signs and project was to see what people’s reactions would be to them.” “I apologize for the extreme trauma, fear, and actual hurt and pain these signs brought about,” Powell said in the statement, according to The Spectrum, the student newspaper. “I apologize if you were hurt, but I do not apologize for what I did. Once again, this is my art practice. My work directly involves black trauma and non-white suffering. I do not believe that there can be social healing without first coming to terms with and expressing our own pain, rage, and trauma.” “This was more than a black issue, more than a Black Student Union issue, this was a student issue,” Oliver tells ABC 7. “The student body should be offended.” University administrators released a statement, saying, “After an initial investigation by University Police, it has been determined that the signs posted in Clemens Hall were part of a student art project. The University is continuing to review this matter through appropriate university policies and procedures.”
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#1. To: All (#0)
She could have supplied the fodder for a lot of white suffering if she did not come forward. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.---Revelation 1:5b-6
Whoa! IF they were hurt? She admitted that the whole purpose of her art project "directly involves black trauma and non-white suffering". Her intent WAS to hurt blacks. A white student doing this would be expelled -- "art project" be damned. Will she be subjected to the same standard?
Are you serious? Of course she will NOT be subjected to the same standard. Being black, she will get a pass. She will probably be invited to the White Hut for a reward! Si vis pacem, para bellum
Hell, she'll also be nominated for a Nobel Prize.
Mission accomplished. She informed millions of black and white people that racism is alive and living under every rock in America if you just turn a few over. Telling people the truth, a few thousand will hear it. The millions have stored this in the memory banks forever.
What are the odds that they have a White Student Union? /chuckle
What are the odds that they have a White Student Union? /chuckle I would think the odds of you being ate by cannibals is exponentially higher... Racism will always be an issue till a way is found to cure "stupidity"... “I apologize if you were hurt, but I do not apologize for what I did. Once again, this is my art practice. My work directly involves black trauma and non-white suffering. I do not believe that there can be social healing without first coming to terms with and expressing our own pain, rage, and trauma.”
#2. To: redleghunter (#0)
“I apologize if you were hurt, but I do not apologize for what I did."
#3. To: misterwhite (#2)
" A white student doing this would be expelled -- "art project" be damned. Will she be subjected to the same standard? "
#4. To: Stoner (#3)
Being black, she will get a pass. She will probably be invited to the White Hut for a reward!
#5. To: redleghunter (#0)
#6. To: Stoner (#3)
More than 100 students turned out to a Black Student Union meeting to discuss the signs.
#7. To: Fred Mertz (#6)
#8. To: jeremiad (#5)
She informed millions of black and white people that racism is alive and living under every rock in America if you just turn a few over.
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