Last week TRUTH released its first newsletter aimed at informing students, faculty, and administrators about its movement. The newsletter outlined the administration's poor response to requests of AHANA students and detailed TRUTH's requests of the administration.
The newsletter and the racial incidents of last semester do not stand alone in relation to other campuses across the country.
Racial tensions have plagued college and university campuses around the nation, with campuses from coast to coast experiencing an unusually high number of racial incidents.
Texas A&M University was rocked by a racial incident last semester, which witnessed the release of a video on YouTube portraying three students demonstrating crude racial slurs, including slave-to-master relationships while wearing blackface makeup. All three students involved in the video dropped out of the university.
The University of Texas, Austin experienced similar incidents, when pictures from a party dubbed "Ghetto Party" surfaced on Facebook. The pictures showed students wearing blackface makeup while mocking African Americans' actions.
After the party, students from both universities traded racist and offensive comments concerning the pictures on Facebook, approving of the party, and the actions that the pictures portrayed.
The Sigma Chi fraternity at Johns Hopkins University hosted a now-infamous party called "Halloween in the Hood," a party that was accused by colored students of being racially hostile. The fraternity was suspended after a university investigation which found the party to be racially threatening.
Similar racial incidents occurred at a dozen other campuses across the country over the last semester and the last several years, including the University of California, Los Angeles - where a video showed police brutality toward an Iranian-American - Auburn University, Steston University, the University of Mississippi, and Oklahoma State University.
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