“…The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s administration has demonstrated a pattern of perverse neglect for the needs, safety, and overall quality of life for black people on its campus. Following our kickoff Black Student Solidarity Rally, white supremacists at the university launched racist attacks at black people on the campus through the “Illini White Student Union” facebook group and Yik Yak. As the white supremacists called us “chimps” and threatened our safety by telling whites on campus to take our photos and get our names, the university administration’s first response was to warn the white supremacist group that they were violating a trademark copyright. This “Illini White Student Union” has adopted the same racial terrorist tactics that groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the White Citizens’ Council utilized to intimidate and kill black people during the Civil Rights Movement. However, the university positioned black student safety at the periphery as it has done many times before.”


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