The football rivalry between the University of Delaware and Delaware State University took an unfortunate turn last weekend as anonymous racist messages about DSU’s predominately African-American population were posted on the social media site Yik Yak.
Delaware State is an Historically Black College (HBC).
UD’s Black Student Union this week brought the remarks to the attention of UD’s administration, BSU President Elliott Webster said.
UD President Patrick T. Harker condemned the racism in a Thursday letter to UD students, faculty and staff. The BSU appreciated the letter, Webster said, but Harker needs to speak more strongly and do more to fight racism at UD.
“There is still work to be done,” he said. “It’s time for an open conversation about race.”
One of the comments compared DSU’s fans to the notorious Bloods and Crips gangs.
Thankfully, the UD student newspaper The Review, noted that, although the furor over these few comments dominated Yik Yak — a site “usually dominated by dining hall food complaints and tales of drunken escapades” — “those posts do not represent the attitudes of all students at the University of Delaware.”
You think? But these anonymous knuckleheads’ idiotic comments were enough to generate a presidential letter to all of UD, as well as (the typical) requests for “conversations” about race in America. Which is probably making the knuckleheads laugh even more at the reaction they got.
And, since the comments were completely anonymous, unfortunately there’s always the possibility of this sort of nonsense.
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