Within
the week, the Black Affairs Council and the LGBT Resource center were
the target of hate speech. Our Facebook pages were marked with hateful
and derogatory language. The Black Affairs Council's page had the
following message: "Why can’t you dumb dirty niggers stop stinking up
the place? Let UGA be RIGHT for good WHITE Christian students."
In efforts to bring light to the things that are going on at the
University of Georgia after over 50 years of desegregation and to stand
in solidarity, myself and some of the
students have planned a march for this Friday, November 8, 2013 from
12:00PM - 1:00 PM entitled "A Minority's Plea: When will the injustice
end?" on the bridge in front of Sanford Stadium.
Support comes
in many forms. If possible, please, come out and participate in the
march. If you are not available to do so, please spread the message to
your listservs, Facebook pages, and Twitter accounts to encourage other
students, faculty, and staff to participate. Lastly, attached you will
find a copy of a flyer that will be used for this march. Please change
your social media pictures to reflect the flyer.
This week is
homecoming at UGA where the slogan is, “There’s no place like
homecoming.” We want UGA to feel like home for every student, faculty
and staff member. We do understand that there will be a large alumni
base here and we would like to pull from that as much as possible. This
is just not a march for the underrepresented population at UGA. This is a
march for the social justice at UGA. We highly encourage all who have
disgust for injustices regardless of race, creed, religion, sexual
orientation, class, gender, ability, or ethnicity to show your support
by participating in this march.
We would like to meet in the
front of Memorial (Hooper Street) at 11:45 AM in order to start as a
collective group at 12:00 PM. Additionally we ask that you wear black in
order to show solidarity. Please bring any posters that you have made
to be a part of the march.
If you have any ideas, questions, or concerns, please feel free to contact me at carriemb@uga.edu.
