Hate Speech Mars Facebook Page of UGA's Black Affairs Council & LGBT Resource Center

According to a Facebook post:

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.