Oh, university, where you go to embark on great learning, new experiences, opening that mind! Supposedly, anyway. Seems many people at university go there with their underdeveloped brains set in cement. Today, it’s the University of Alabama. At least it’s not Ndakota again.
Students and administrators were welcomed by a sea of hateful Trump-inspired chalk messages outside Manly Hall at the University of Alabama on Friday, AL.com reports.
Manly Hall is home to the departments of Religious Studies and Gender and Race Studies and the messages clearly targeted the people who frequent the building.
The racist and anti-feminist messages were written in chalk outside the building and read, “Build a freaking wall #YUGE,” “Trump 2016,” “F*ck your feelings,” and “#Feminism is cancer.”
A faculty member of the department shared the photos on Facebook with a message that accompanied the post. Juan P Black Romero, who is a part-time instructor of “race, gender, and Latino immigration politics” at the university wrote:
Another of those hateful mornings at my office. They have become too common by now. Less than a week from the election and the push for the open display of racial difference that is becoming more desirable if not acceptable. This messages are warnings and threats to all of us who want a better world for all. These messages set the limits of the achievements of our society up to this point; these messages tell us that we have gone too far in our claims of treating each other as human beings and working together. This is what is being offered as a reality in this election with Trump, this limitation and eradication of anything that doesn’t build race and fulfill the desires of Whites.
I can’t say I am angry anymore; I am scared, but I won’t stop, ever, doing my job. If anything, I can say that I am more inclined to love. Today, I will join a group of scholars and students that deal with these issues of difference – race, gender, ageism, class, disability, and more. We will work on this, I am sure; work for a better world.
Well said, Mr. Romero. We certainly have our work cut out for us.
Via Raw Story.
All in all, it’s all just bricks in the wall.
The irony. For me. Today, an elderly Hispanic man told me how much good that Hillary Clinton would do for women and how disgusting Trump was in the way he spoke to and about women. This from a male who has a culture of putting women “on the back burner” (his phrase). This from a male latino who (culturally and historically) would never dream of having a woman president. He told me that if I did not vote for Hillary, there must be something wrong with me.
I have already voted, and he was pleased with my choice. That’s all I’ll say about that.
The people who turn out to be allies in this election is really quite surprising to me.
kestrel
I get the feeling this is the kind of election where intersectionality comes into play (for the aware): when one of the candidates despises everyone not exactly like him, you end up considering all the other marginalized groups lumped in with you, too.
#fuck your feeling
From the people who throw temper tantrums that include rape and death threats as something as innocent as a pronoun, the phrase “contains sexual assault and child abuse” and being blocked on Twitter.