Thursday, November 18, 2004
LOL Black
Protest more! We'll listen, then.
Demonstrators, who came from a number of black student organizations, wore bandannas over their noses and mouths to symbolize being silenced by the campus community, said Raniyah Abdus-Samad, executive director of the Black Recruitment and Retention Center.
Eh... Chris at least used something which does silence people. A bandana over the face doesn't make you silent. It does, coincidentally, make you look like a terrorist.
“It’s hard when you’re one of two or three black people in a large class,” she said. “It’s hard when my professor starts talking about slavery and he looks straight at me. We’re looked at to explain all black issues.”
Ah, now this is an issue which I agree with. No individual can speak for an entire race. It may be, though, that the professor is more concerned about how the black students are going to react, in case they want to sue him or something for saying the wrong thing.
Three Heuristic Squelch writers said they were verbally assaulted while trying to distribute their magazine. They said they were forced to set up approximately 100 feet from their usual distribution spot, said Simon Ganz, the Squelch’s deputy creative editor.
A man who campus officials later said was unaffiliated with the Black Recruitment and Retention Center physically threatened Squelch distributors and flicked burning cigarette ash on them, said SQUELCH! Senator Ben Narodick.
“We couldn’t set up our booth in our usual spot,” Ganz said. “I’m sympathetic to the issues, but I’m not fond of the censorship.”
Wow, what a stupid comment by Simon. Censorship? Okay, I'm just kidding. Simon was talking about how earlier, some "whiny liberals" said that their distribution of the Squelch was somehow anti-protester or something. Read his comments here.
Anyway, that's pretty pathetic. "It's wrong that we're being silenced. Oh, and you over there, SILENCE!"
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