This was left on my apartment door today at University House. Absolutely disgusting. pic.twitter.com/aBdjH8gRF1
— cip (@ClarkePerkins) October 20, 2016
LSU political science junior Clarke Perkins tweeted Wednesday night that her door decoration was damaged and “go back 2 Africa N— monkeys” was written on its side.
Perkins said she noticed that the decoration was damaged when she was leaving her apartment at University House at 6 p.m.
She shared a photo of the decoration online on Twitter Wednesday night. The tweet gained traction, being retweeted more than 2,200 times by Thursday afternoon, prompting LSU President F. King Alexander to release a statement.
“I am sorry this happened to you,” Alexander tweeted. “If the culprit is not a student, we will contact the district attorney for swift action. Let me be clear: LSU will not tolerate this behavior.”
Perkins said she met with Alexander in person Thursday. She said he plans to put pressure on University House and demand that the apartment complex takes steps to protect students.
University House is an off-campus complex on West Chimes Street just north of LSU’s campus. A spokesperson for University House said that they will release a statement Thursday.
Perkins said that she does not know whether she or her four other roommates were specifically targeted. She said she has lived at the apartment since Fall 2015 and has never had an issue before. She is now considering her other housing options.
For me, it’s early, and I have not had tea yet, so not much to say here. What is there to say? This sort of garbage is happening more and more, with bigots feeling happy and smug, wallowing in their poison troughs.
Via KTBS.
If the culprit is not a student then Alexander will contact the DA. But if they are a student, then what happens? A stern tsk-tsk? Nothing?
No idea, but I’d hope it would be taken seriously, especially seeing where this took place. That sort of shit is always scary, but it’s scarier in some places more than others.
This “Go back to …” wherever always leaves me stunned. Just because a person is black does not meant they are African, any more than I am American because I am white.
But, in the spirit of giving in to arseholes, just what would happen in America if all “the blacks” went back to Africa? Well, there goes half your military, about a quarter of the police, almost the entire major sports teams, a huge chunk of your medical staff, amazing authors, actors and other assorted artists (although I wouldn’t miss hip hop). It was like the Trumpanzee at one pf his rallies yelling to a Mexican “Get back in the kitchen and make ME MY tortilla”
The racist shares the same cognitive dissonance as the religious believer. They will happily spew hate at “the blacks” while listening to Kanye, reading Neil de Grasse Tyson, and cheering on Serena Williams.
Reminds me a few conversations I had with my son as he was growing up.
One day he says “I hate gooks”. Hang on, I say. Isn’t Quong “a gook” and isn’t he one of your best friends? “Yeah, but he’s not like all the rest”. Some time later we are talking again and he spouts off at aborigines, “Can’t stand boongs” Again, from me, Hang on, that girl you brought home last week, Denise? Isn’t she “a boong”? Seems you were OK with her. “Yeah, but she’s not like the rest”. Glad to say that was in his formative teenager years and he is a far better man now as he approaches 40.
One of my favorite Australian authors is Henry Lawson, very much a man of his time. Lawson believed in “Australia for the white man” and was very anti-Chinese. In that sentiment he was not alone, it was the prevailing view. And yet Lawson began one of his stories with “But one may dislike, or even hate, a nation without hating or disliking an individual of that nation”, and went on to write a sentimental short story which exposes the shared humanity of the hater and the hated. If you can find a copy of “Ah Soon” I recommend it.
just as the internet has allowed hate to flourish when hidden behind a screen, these creeps always use the cover of darkness, their white bed sheets, or some other disguise. They are so willing to hate, but so reluctant to own that hate and be honest about it.
I cannot and will not excuse the actions that led to that thing on the door, it is abhorrent. But I can hope that the person who placed it there will have their own moment where they are confronted with their stupidity and come to learn that we all bleed red, we all have salty tears, and we are all in this together.
A tweet
The kind of extrajudicial status of US campuses is seriously puzzling to me. If it’s a crime it’s a crime, not an academic issue.
David Brindley
Not to mention that all white Americans and Australians who say that came from a place that seriously doesn’t want them back, too.
But it reminds me of a conversation with my mum in law. “Benign” racism FTW:
We were looking at pictures from the kid’s birthday. One of her guests is biracial, her father (whom I’ve never met because the parents have long been divorced) is a US soldier.
My mum in law: “that girl, where is she from?”
Me: “From here.”
Her: “But originally?”
Me: “Here?!”
Her: “But her family!”
Me: “From here as well. Her father is from the USA.”
That kid grew up in the exact same place as her own kids, speaks the exact same dialect as her kids, went to preschool and primary school together with her grandchildren but still she’s not considered to be “from here”
Saad:
That is great. It was nice to see the white bigots in that stream utterly ignored, too.
The Trump effect at work?
https://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/splc_the_trump_effect.pdf
Hopefully, Trump will lose and be politically rejected so strongly in such a definitive comprehensive landslide that an oppoite ant0- Trumpeffect
^ … anti-Trump effect will ensue in broader culture as well?
(Sorry I don’t know what happened there. Must have accidentally hit post instead of preview?)
That tweet posted by Saad really kind of made my day about this. Not that that makes this okay, but it was good to see. And so true.