D’COSTA: MRC delegitimizes its organization with decision to reject the JLC
I moved into my room on the Lawn on Aug. 11 welcomed by neo-Nazis chanting "Jews will not replace us" as they marched proudly up the Lawn with torches. I've since been dealing with the residual trauma. My experience in the fall of 2017 intensified my reality as a minority student at the University. As both a person of color and a Jewish student, I've lived with microaggressions, stereotypes and discrimination my entire life, yet with the trauma of this fall I've never felt more acutely aware of and threatened because of my identity. Both last semester and the semesters prior, there have been times when I’ve felt truly unsafe because of who I am — as a woman, as a person of color and as a Jew. As an advocate for student self-governance, who holds the genuine belief in my peers to create positive change, I am appalled by the Minority Rights Coalition's decision to deny the Jewish Leadership Council membership into its organization.