University of Michigan walkout CRAZINESS!

[jkos4freedom1]

Here is a letter sent out to University of Michigan students from students4justice. This is my first post so bare with me:)

"Placing us in the police’s care is an act of violence, especially for Black students."

[jkos4freedom1]

FULL TEXT - The University must re-channel its resources and money to its basest requirement: to protect its students. This safety must not depend on the University’s police. The police, as a union, has endorsed Trump. Placing us in the police’s care is an act of violence, especially for Black students. The University must protect its students, instead, by dramatically increasing financial aid, emergency funds, health care resources, health insurance grants, and discretionary funds available to low-income students. It must create and/or dramatically increase funding for community centers for people of color and marginalized students. It must increase funding for Student Psychological Services and hire new therapists that are of color and specialize in engaging in race-related mental concerns. It must increase its acceptance of Palestinian international students and protect its Palestinian students from the state-sanctioned genocide which is about to escalate. Students of color also often have other marginalized identities that we cannot separate from their existence. These identities come with their own struggles exacerbated by white supremacy and we make demands on their behalf too. The University must provide trans students with healthcare respectful of their humanity and agency. The University must provide a variety of affordable health insurance options which are able to meet the needs of all students..The University must ease requirements for verification of disability in providing accommodations to students. The University must regard dismissal and derision of marginalized students’ needs as violence. The safety of the University’s students must be priority in any fundraising, donations, or implementations of new funds - before building new buildings, sports arenas, and the like. Attacks, verbal and physical harassment, and bullying must be taken seriously. The students must be protected. The University must remove symbols and remove/change names of symbols of white supremacy on this campus. Clarence Cook Little, also known as C.C. Little, was a known eugenicist. James B. Angell is the writer of the Angell Treaty limiting Chinese immigration to the United States, preceding the Chinese Exclusion Act. There are symbols of white supremacy on our campus that are upheld until today. These two men are used to name buildings, our largest public transport station, and even scholarships and honors awards. The University must be a place of sanctuary for undocumented students and their families, and must welcome Muslim immigrants. The University can provide legal services, attempt to claim jurisdiction, and identify undocumented students as international students, and more, to protect its students. Financial aid must be dramatically increased towards this cause and for these students. The University must double its commitment to rejecting racial harassment and protecting its students of color. The students must be protected. One step the University could take is to create/increase funding for a “Social Justice Peer Education” program to run race-based educational workshops for the campus. We understand that IGR is a department that focuses on this, but it needs to be more than a conversation that people have to self-select into. Secondly, we need to see actual protection and safety measures. What is the benefit of reporting hate crimes aside from telling the targets of this violence that they should avoid those areas? We need to see more comprehensive protection. We need to see plans, services that the University offers, etc. One could be to increase SafeRide beyond its current time, and increase multiple services like this. The University must divest from unethical corporations that profit from human rights abuses inflicted against people of color. Students of color should not be forced to contribute to their own oppression by paying their tuition dollars that, in turn, is used to invest in corporations that violate the human rights of people of color. Black and brown students are forced to invest into the prison industrial complex, border violence, fossil fuel industry, and colonialism and apartheid in Palestine. The university/college must divest. The University of Michigan must protect its Black students. The University of Michigan must increase the percentage of African American students to match the domestic percentage with a focus on Black students who have heritage in American slavery. The University of Michigan must provide funding and paid staffing positions for a Black space on campus specifically designed as a recreational and safe space for Black people at the University. The University must offer more academic support services for Black students. Resources for protecting Black students cannot be channeled to University police. The police, as a union, has endorsed Trump. Placing us in the police’s care is an act of anti-Black violence. The University must issue an official statement detailing its dedication to the protection of, specifically, its students of color. This statement must acknowledge white supremacy and racism, and it must assert itself on the side of its students of color. It must be explicit, and it cannot conflate calling out structural violence with the structural violence itself (RE: the email sent by the President). We need an official apology that can go out to all the students, apologizing personally for the misspelling that was a complete invalidation of hijabi students’ experiences of violence on this campus. People are afraid for their lives. #OurCampus #Schlisselwya

[tet68]

Obviously paragraphs are no longer taught there.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Bare with you? Are we talking just, like, shirtless? Or are looking for full-monty style participation?

If so, I would have to advise against it. The whole running around buck-nekkid thing...It just terrifies the clergy.

[manc]

Just a word, not a dig, but paragraphs really help people to read that.

[oh8eleven]

This is my first post
It's also your first day. I suggest you learn some formatting skills before overloading our eyeballs.

[PittsburghAfterDark]

Response: There are many other schools in the nation.

We recommend you pursue your academic opportunities elsewhere.

[Parmy]

I have said it before and will say it again. Social justice is a term used by totalitarians go gain control over the masses. It has been applied by nearly every dictator that has ever lived.

[Codeflier]

I wish we were kinder to people that need html help. Please look for the html guide. You will have fun with it (I hope).

[mbarker12474]

Give the guy a break.

[JennysCool]

Exactly.

If you’re walking out, keep on walking.

[oh8eleven]

I did.

[chris37]

[Democrats hate too much]

"Give the guy a break."

-I agree.

[rktman]

Oh, and, you better grow an alligator hide. Some of the oldsters will be a little, uh, shall we say, “constructive” with their commentary. Welcome aboard. Highlights will help and rarely post the entire piece. Just enough to snooker some of us in to read it.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Did you participate in writing this crap? Or are you posting it because you think its ridiculous.

Since you just joined today, presumably to publicize this screed, I’m thinking the former, but I’ll wait to hear from you.

[Hoffer Rand]

They’re awfully demanding for people afraid for their lives.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Hey, Kiddo!

Give me a link to this data and I’ll format it for you.

One Freebie. But that’s all you get. ;)

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

Give the guy a break.

He can have one of mine . . . < br > !

Have as many as you like!

[Eddie01]

Paragraphs are racist.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Do kids these days know the difference between, ‘former’ and, ‘later?’ ;)