"It’s election season at American University, and candidates for student body president are telling students exactly what they want to hear:
Your lives are hard, and we care.
One of Torriente’s specific initiatives to further diversity and inclusion involves supporting a professor who is currently trying to push for the African American and African Diaspora Studies minor to expand into a major.
Mascaro, who is white, promised to let nonwhite students develop his diversity policy:
“I’ll be the first to admit that as a white man, I have not experienced racism, and I never will experience racism,” Mascaro said during the debate.
“So, I am not the person who should be leading the charge on this issue. I have to lead from behind.”...
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