January 2013
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Shout out to Will Bloom.
Hi Will. Django was racist, fool.
December 2012
1 post
Question
Do you think the rich white man is capable of truly understanding white privilege/institutional racism? Will they ever understand their violent history and how it has shaped their life and beliefs today?
Answer:
If they want to study racism like any other historical subject. Anyone who makes an honest study of anything with have understanding.
October 2012
1 post
NU Board Member Ben Slivka's Opinion On Racism,... →
NU Board Member Slivka Gives Interesting Opinion About Racism, Privilege & Discrimination to NU Student Via FB Chat in an uncommon conversational exchange
July 2012
1 post
Follow our new cousin.... →
May 2012
6 posts
contains live and active cultures: Fraternities... →
sofriel:
In the past month at the University of Chicago, two separate fraternities have done racist crap! Incident number one was Alpha Delta Phi having the frat brothers mow lawns and cut bushes while wearing sombreros. Incident number two was a facebook event created by Delta Upsilon called “DU Presents:…
"Yo bitch... Fuck you Asians" - Another Casual... →
Black Male kicked out of crowded gym at SPAC for...
[[A friend of mine, a black [man], was training some of my friends. Basically he was told that he had to stop because people were complaining because he was too loud… It’s a gym not the library! But before that he was asked to give the man his wildcard and the man went and checked it. If it had been a white person I KNOW that wouldn’t have happened. …it was at the track. I...
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The Black Athlete At A White University →
Published in The Daily Northwestern on April 25, 1968
Do any of the things outlined in this article still ring true today?
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“Diversify the Environment
An important dimension of the environment is the...”
– NUDM 2012
April 2012
24 posts
What's In A Picture
While I think Svitek’s article was both slightly irresponsible and racist I don’t really see anything objectionable in that picture of Kellyn? Is portrayal of someone gesturing a form of dog-whistle politics I’m currently unaware of? The man looks justifiably angry as he has every right to be in this scenario. The picture may be unflattering to his good looks but not to his point and the matter...
Though maybe it was urban development, although...
http://www.sandcreek.com/
Northwestern's "Sand Creek Cheyenne and Arapaho...
Correspondence from W. H. Seward (Secretary of State under President Lincoln) to Gov. John Evans re: Request by President for Resignation - 7/18/1865
http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/evans/ff9.htm
John Evans is considered a distinguished alumni on Northwestern’s Campus — to the extent that the institution has emblazoned his name on our alumni center. The university...
This is the saddest thing: This is in no way new.
Excerpt:
In October of 1941, three members of the Interracial Commission visited President Snyder to ask his advice about the problems black students faced in finding adequate housing close to campus. They came with a petition[i] they had circulated demanding racial equality on campus, gathering nearly 800 signatures[ii] and winning the support of Ruth McCarn.[iii] President Snyder suggested...
Daily Wages War On Anti-Racists Some More →
Daily Wages War On Anti-Racists →
“Weinberg senior Kellyn Lewis, Medill senior Dallas Wright and Weinberg junior...”
– The Daily Northwestern
Northwestern University Memory Project →
A Book on why memorials matter and how what you memorialize says a lot about what you do and do not value. Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning by Jay Winter
Societal Racism Now Defined As "Occasionally...
That’s what this is…. apparently…..
“…discourse should not only be expected, but also encouraged, on these occasionally challenging societal issues.”
- Patricia Telles-Irvin, Dan Linzer, Morton Schapiro
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The Northwestern University Diversity Report →
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Remember When Northwestern Helped Fill...
The History of Northwestern you’ll never hear:
The fight over race and housing was put on hold following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, when the University transitioned into a wartime mindset. In a letter from J.B.C. Etuka Okala, a Nigerian student who was president of the Cosmopolitan Club, expressed solidarity with the University on behalf of his organization and pledged to help...
“In 1973, there were 186 black freshman enrolled at Northwestern, a considerably...”
– #swag
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The Words of Northwestern's Dean of Women
“Alien illiterates … rule our cities today; the saloon is their palace, and the toddy stick their sceptre. It is not fair that they should vote, nor is it fair that a plantation Negro, who can neither read nor write, whose ideas are bounded by the fence of his own field and the price of his own mule, should be entrusted with the ballot … The colored race multiplies like the...
Northwestern Founder Participates in Indigenous...
What does it mean to have buildings named after people like this?
Dear Navajo Nation (not the real one of course),
John Evans was a founding member of this fine institution (and University of Denver). John Evans Alumni Center is named after him, so is Evanston, Il, Evans, CO, and Mt. Evans, CO. John Evans used more than $30,000 (equal to a sum between 750,000 and a 1,000,000) to help the...
“The Community has mobilized.
http://www.nucollectivestories.tumblr.com
...”
Statement From the Northwestern Ski Team
by Matt Dolph on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 2:09pm ·
To the Northwestern Community:
On April 21st, our organization, the Northwestern Ski Team, hosted an event that was entirely inappropriate and inexcusable and for which we are taking full responsibility. This event consisted of obscene and offensive costumes including Native American headdresses, misrepresentation of Bangladeshi culture, and...
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Students Await Publishing of Diversity Report
“A diverse community is essential to achieve our mission of creating the best possible learning environment and educational experience, because only by exploring issues with people of different backgrounds and viewpoints can we challenge our assumptions, test our ideas and broaden our understanding of the world.” — Daniel Linzer, Provost
Provost Linzer Welcomes Students To View Report
Dean Linzer told some students that the “Diversity Report” for 2011 that follows a long series of diversity reports that were published in annual succession was in his office and could be view, by appointment, by any student that wanted to see the report. The report was moved to the office of planning. A group of students asked to have the 2011 report released to show students that...
