Maxwell Faculty of Color group says SU’s response to racism inadequate
Karleigh Merritt-Henry | Digital Design Editor
Dear Editor,
We, the undersigned members of the Maxwell Faculty of Color group, wish to express our abhorrence of the hateful racist graffiti and verbal attacks that have been directed at students of color and of non-Christian faiths at Syracuse University this month. Such incidents are persistent and deeply hurtful. They create an atmosphere which is hostile, unsafe and exclusionary to students who have to navigate these spaces on a daily basis. As faculty of color who have some shared understanding of the students’ experiences, we feel that the university’s response has been inadequate. We hold the university accountable to address the students’ concerns in good faith. We ask for a commitment on the part of the administration to implement effective and sustained reform measures in the direction of a more inclusive campus environment and learning framework.
Sincerely,
Lamis E. Abdelaaty
Edwin Ackerman
Mona Bhan
A. Peter Castro
Carmen E. Carrion Flores
Alphonso Flores-Lagunes
Cecilia Green
William Horrace
Masood Hyder
Jenn M. Jackson
Radha Kumar
Prema Kurien
Yingyi Ma
Gladys McCormick
Guido Pezzarossi
Martin Shanguhyia
Abdulaziz B. Shifa
Farhana Sultana
Published on November 19, 2019 at 12:58 am