The rally came on the heels of several open letters from faculty, one of which included more than 350 signatures demanding the university reconsider its position on the Center for Racial Justice.
UNIVERSITY PARK — More than 100 Penn State students, faculty and community members — armed with signs like “We Are ... better than this” and “Make racism wrong again” — descended near the steps of Old Main on Thursday afternoon and demanded racial justice, calling for the administration to reverse its decision to cancel plans for its own Center for Racial Justice., one of which included more than 350 signatures demanding the university reconsider its position on the center.
“We wholeheartedly support the creation of the Center for Racial Justice at Penn State,” the board’s letter added. “We believe that such a center is necessary for Penn State to address its structural inequities and to move forward in embracing diversity, inclusion, equity and belonging.” “All too often we find people in power use words and narratives to make us docile, to make us complacent when we raise our voices and demand the things that are justly due,” said Divine Lipscomb, a member of the State College Borough Council and a grad student. “And they think we forget. I’m here today to let the people of Old Main know: We ain’t forget.”
“Maybe the Center for Racial Justice wasn’t the end-all, be-all solution. Maybe we ought to rethink systematic solutions. But what trust could we possibly have as students and faculty, that the university is going to let us participate in those decisions?” Other speakers didn’t mince words in their criticism of Bendapudi, who’s often joked she’s a “recovering banker.”
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