Swarthmore College student Jacob Malin noticed something amiss on a poster in the college’s French Department: It appeared “the faces of the three students of color looked like they had been intentionally ripped out.”
So what did Malin do? Why, contact the college’s Public Safety Department, of course.
Soon after, the school’s “Bias Incident, Harassment and Hate Crime Response” team swung into action!
Some students feel frustrated with what they perceive as the administration’s lack of attention to the vandalism. The only community-wide acknowledgement of the incident came in a single sentence in the second paragraph of Smith’s recent email inviting the campus to attend a community dialogue to discuss issues about racism.
“I just want to know what happened,” said Tiye Pulley ‘19. “Who did this? When did it happen? What exactly occurred? Who found out? And why hasn’t the student population been informed in a mass e-mail or something? Why did I have to read about this in the second paragraph of an e-mail, slipped in there like it was nothing?”
Both Smith and Braun noted that the defacement of students of color from the poster occurred in the wake of racially charged and racist events taking place at college campuses all across the country. It is particularly similar to the defacement of the portraits of Black professors at Harvard Law School earlier in November.
Yeah, how about that? There’s no chance the poster incident could have been perpetrated by someone looking to create one of those “teachable moments,” right?
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