UC Berkeley Black Out

Black Out

The students participating in today's black out represent a community of 4.8% that has been silenced by the campus community and the university system as a whole.

Since the implementation of SP-1, which eliminates the use of Affrimative Action in admission policies throughout the university of California, the number of Black students enrolled has decreased by 50%.

As a result of our diminishing population we are left in a polarized position where we are either IGNORED or ATTACKED!

THere are some ways we have been IGNORED:

- Our annual plea to repeal SP-1
- Request for Full Time Employee faculty and staff
- Inefficient African AMerican and Ethnic studies department
- No student affairs greared fro students of color
- Request for space for a sufficient multi-cultural center
- Taking away of BESSA space in Bechtel Hall
- No cultural or historical visual recognition throughout the campus especially during Black Histroy Month
- Exclusion from study groups

These are some of the ways we have been ATTACKED

- Racist and conservative publications such as The Patriot
- Racist advertisements in the Daily Cal such as the David Horowitz advertisement and various racially insensitive cartoons
- Students constantly accused of cheating, laziness, and underachieving
- Racial Profiling by UCPD
- Racial PRofiling specifically at on-campus parties sponsored by Black organiztions

Because we have no been heard we will cease speaking and now take action. We ask that you support us in our struggle by wearing a black bandanna in solidarity.