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Following String of Racist Incidents, UC San Diego Students Occupy Chancellor's Office

by via Democracy Now
Monday, March 1, 2010 :Crowds of students stormed and occupied the office of a University of California, San Diego chancellor for six hours Friday after a noose was found hanging from a bookcase in the main library. The noose is only the latest in a string of incidents over the past few weeks. Protests were initially sparked by an off-campus party last month they called "Compton Cookout" that mocked Black History Month and denigrated African American women. UC San Diego has the smallest percentage of African American students in the nine-campus UC system. The Black Student Union at UC San Diego has declared the campus climate for racial minorities to be in a "state of emergency."
Daniel Widener, associate professor of history and faculty director of the African American Studies minor at UC San Diego

Fnann Keflezighi, co-chair of the UC San Diego Black Student Union

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by Mario
I have watched TV and online video of the actions denoucing the indisputely racist '' Compton Cookout ''
and i have noticed very few African-Americans. Is that the case ? If so any idea why ? I understand that UCSD only has 2% Black Student enrollment but with a student body of approx. 25, 000 there must be about 500 African-American Students.
In the footage i have seen there were some Asians , some Latinos and a couple of Muslim women wearing Hijabs . The rest were European -American . But only a couple of African-Americans .
by student
I think many of us know here that the corporate news is seriously flawed, which is why indybay is so important. I wouldnt be surprised if they just tried not to show african americans on tv.

also, if I were black and there were nooses hung in my school I would be terrified to show my face. Especially if this is just the latest incident of many others. This sounds like some KKK fucked up shit and we need to stop it!

Dont forget, fascism thrives in depressions/recession (look at germany in the great depression).
we need to stand together as one to recover what weve lost; the people united will never be defeated!
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