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(10/10/16 10:39am)
In recent weeks many students, especially black students, have begun to question what their U.Va. is. Is it the University they applaud as the number two public university in the country? The pristine and manicured Lawn they show in pamphlets? Perhaps it is the guys in ties and girls in pearls that are signature at football games? In truth, it is all of that and more. It is where black women are harassed and called “nappy-headed n—s” as they walk home. It is where childish yet age-old hatred stains the walls of first-year dormitories. And more insidiously, it is where the University itself has placed a stamp of endorsement on hatred, oppression and the slave South. As you make your way to the newly opened Rotunda, what will you see? You will discover the Ladies Confederate Memorial Association’s gift to the University. The face of our Rotunda is scarred by two plaques from 1906, displaying the names of fallen Confederate soldiers — men who believed the only existence a black body could have at the University was one of servile subordination.
(02/08/16 5:15am)
Last year, three important referenda were passed with regard to the Honor System. The first mandated that a popular assembly be held every two years to “gauge student body opinion” on important issues. The second, put simply, mandated that polling questions with majority student body support be translated into constitutional amendments to be put to a vote the following year. The third was a question polling student body opinion on whether the Honor Committee should “consider implementing a multiple sanction system.”
(02/08/16 5:10am)
In high school I gave a lot of white friends permission to use the N-word by passively failing to address the habit. I think I almost celebrated white people cool enough to say the word fluidly as if they were black. But foolishly I forgot they invented the word; it has always been natural for them to use it. This article is not an endorsement of using the N-word among black people. However, it does serve to debunk the false notion that white people have an equal right to it. I have some very close white friends who maintain they have somehow earned the right to use the word just as their black peers do — a word that was historically and is presently used as a term of hatred by portions of the white community. I do not care if one cuts the “er” ending and replaces it with an “a” to lessen its severity. A white person can never earn the right to call me their “n—.” It is the whitewashing of black history that explains the reason many fail to comprehend why it will never be acceptable. Its usage by white people is an affront to the progress we have made, not a tribute to colorblindness.
(10/05/15 4:00am)
Ever since I can remember, I was taught proper nouns should be capitalized. I was taught to capitalize my name, to capitalize the United States and even to capitalize ethnic identifiers like Asian or Latino. Naturally when I wrote my first essay with reference to black people I capitalized the word “Black.” Yet, when my paper was returned to me I found a note in the margin. The teacher had written, “Why did you capitalize ‘Black?’” I thought I had made a grammatical mistake, so for a period of time, I stopped capitalizing the word. Today, I am writing to my elementary school teacher to tell her she was wrong. I am writing to tell her it is absurd to posit that an entire people do not deserve the respect of a proper noun. It is absurd to encourage the trivialization of a complex and varied race of people, regarding them as equally simplistic as the color of a shoe. Today I am making it clear that “Black” is distinct from “black.”