Now University of Kansas Students Are Complaining About ‘Donald Trump 2016’ Chalkings, Too
A week after Emory University administrators set up counseling sessions after ‘Donald Trump 2016′ chalkings were found across campus, students at the University of Kansas complained after similar chalkings were found on their campus.
Shegufta Huma, vice president of the University Senate, was the first to complain and publicize the chalkings. “Is this the post-racial paradise folks pretend exists?” she asked.
Trump support at @KUnews. Is this the post-racial paradise folks pretend exists? ? #RockChalkInvisibleHawk #myPWI pic.twitter.com/zjba3jtYoc
— Shegufta (@therealshegufta) March 29, 2016
privilege is having the audacity to do this “as a joke.” bc it doesn’t *actually* harm folks, right? https://t.co/MUbnbB0dEx
— murphy (@casualpanicking) March 29, 2016
@ whoever chalked “Trump 2016” all over KU campus: get fucked.
— Diana Prince (@shullbee) March 29, 2016
Unlike Emory, KU staff reacted to the angry students fairly calmly, explaining that it wasn’t necessarily a student who made the chalkings and that students were allowed to make Trump chalkings if they wanted to.
@therealshegufta just because there is chalk on campus doesn’t mean a Jayhawk did the chalking, Shegufta.
— University of Kansas (@KUnews) March 29, 2016
@EricPahls yes. Here is the policy: https://t.co/YLgHxxaFgm
— University of Kansas (@KUnews) March 30, 2016
That answer angered Rock Chalk Invisible Hawks, the black advocacy group on campus.
That’s actually worse. Who will intervene? That means we’re not teaching Jayhawks that bigotry us unacceptable. https://t.co/5VlkEE3sZM
— Invisible Hawks (@InvisibleHawks) March 29, 2016
You could’ve used this chance to denounce that Trump propaganda. Instead you used it to be defensive. https://t.co/5VlkEE3sZM
— Invisible Hawks (@InvisibleHawks) March 29, 2016
The chalkings were eventually erased, not because of the message but because the chalker didn’t go through the proper channels beforehand.
[h/t Campus Reform]
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