Just being clear

This is not about anti-Black prejudice. Yet (although certain people _{CongresOfRacialEquality} have contacted the Justice Dept offering to investigate links between terrorists and Black folks). This is about being an asshole.

Threat left on poster at Af-Am House

Message follows alleged March 27 break-in

BY JESSICA FEINSTEIN
Staff Reporter

Students discovered a threatening message written in front of the Afro-American Cultural Center Wednesday night, prompting outrage at the incident and frustration with the Yale administration's response to recent allegations of intimidation.

The message, scrawled in black ink on the front of a crumpled anti-war flier, read: "I hope you protesters and your children are killed in the next terrorist attack. Signed F--- You." The threat comes two weeks after several male students allegedly broke into a Calhoun College suite on March 27 and left a hateful message on the whiteboard of anti-war activist Katherine Lo '05.

"It's very clear this is the same tactic of using hate speech or hate crime to try to silence people," Afro-American Cultural Center staff member Christopher Jordan '04 said. "It's targeting a specific group based on their race, ethnicity and religion."

Jordan said the cultural center was probably targeted because many students at the center are opposed to war and the Muslim Student Association often holds meetings there. But Jordan said there have been no officially organized anti-war efforts through the cultural center.

In response to the incident, a large number of concerned students from several campus organizations, including the Afro-American Cultural Center, the Muslim Students' Association, the Students for Justice in Palestine and the Pan-Ethnic Coalition, gathered in the cultural center Thursday night to discuss possible plans for a response to the recent incidents.

The meeting was organized by Concerned Black Students at Yale, a new student coalition that was created partially in response to the flier. Shelita Stewart '04, a member of the new group, said the organization aims to end the "hostilities suffered by students of color on Yale campus."

posted by Prometheus 6 at 4/11/2003 04:19:05 PM |