How much “economic anxiety” does it take for one or more people to hang bananas from nooses, as was done yesterday on the campus of American University in Washington D.C?
Yesha Callahan at The Root:
American University’s race issues over the last two years have been brought to the media’s attention. In 2015, racist messages were being spewed on the popular social media campus app Yak. And just last year, bananas were thrown at black students. On Monday, it seems, racists were back to using bananas to convey their racist messages after bananas were found hanging from nooses on the Washington, D.C., campus.
According to the university, the bananas were marked with the letters “AKA,” the abbreviation for Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first black sorority, which was launched at Howard University in 1908.
Neil Kerwin, president of the university, issued a statement about the incident and said it seems to have happened because the first black woman and AKA member was sworn in as the Student Government president...
Surely, we must pull a Miss Ross move and reach out and seek to understand these people who would do something like this, right?
And stop being such special snowflakes about people who are, after all, merely exercising their freedom of speech (in anonymity, of course), right?
Nope...nothing deplorable about this incident...not at all...