LOL Felarca I attended the rally for a few minutes. There were at most 100 students, mostly from middle schools. Yvette Felarca was supposed to introduce some people singing the "Black National Anthem" (I think it's a new AffAct fad) but her "introduction" turned into an amazingly annoying and insane rant. Her screaming is physically painful with its absurdity and horrendous emphasis on every other word. "I like to EAT COOKIES!!!" I had to leave before hearing the Black National Anthem which I was actually curious about, and heard her complaining about Iraq or something as I left. Stuff: "What do we want?" "Education!" "When do we want it?" "Now!" Beetle's free advice: Go to school, then. Don't skip it to come to a pointless protest. The point was, supposedly, to convince Chancellor Bob 2.0 to make sure that racism in K-12 doesn't translate to college. How exactly that's supposed to happen is a mystery to me, and you might expect that the solution would be to fight racism in K-12, but whatever. Somewhere along the line, BAMN added "Immigrant Rights" to their already overloaded plate of "Stuff to complain about." The low numbers of admits of black students is apparently a "scandal" and an "injustice of historical proportions." It's too boring to be a scandal, in my opinion, and frankly, history isn't even going to notice. But they insist that they "aren't going to tolerate this any longer." In what manner will they not tolerate it? Beats the crap out of me. Maybe that's what they're planning. It doesn't get them education, though. They want Chancellor Bob 2.0 to "Make sure this campus looks like Oakland next year." Well, somebody had better start the gangs, quick. Distribute more guns so we can shoot each other with more ease. Also, make sure everybody becomes really poor. Seriously, I thought the complaint is that Oakland is horrible. Why would we want to make more places like Oakland? Where are black students going to escape to if Berkeley becomes Oakland? "Yay, we've finally made it out of Oakland's hellish system and into... oh, wait, another system exactly like Oakland's." Well, whatever. They're marching to California Hall where the Chancellor almost certainly is not. posted by Beetle Aurora Drake 11/09/2004 01:18:00 PM # Comments (0) . . .
