ADAMES AND BORJA: The real reason for the wealth gap
The first night the chalk messages appeared, I [Hannah Borja, guest writer] was walking home around midnight from Old Cabell with my friend when I encountered a message on the sidewalk that read, “Wealth Gap Explained: Average White IQ: 102, Average Black IQ: 87.” I scuffed the message out and kept walking. Less than two hours later, when I was in my dorm and my friend had gone to flyer around Grounds, he texted me a picture that showed the exact same message with the same handwriting just under the bit I had erased. In response, I went back out and scuffed out that second message. The primary reason I could not stand to have the message written on Grounds did not necessarily have to do with how I feel about racism. The chalk message I encountered was simply not true, so I saw no purpose in it being there.