Black students at Wesley College in Dover, Delaware have issued a set of demands to the school administration after the student newspaper published two racially insensitive cartoons.
The images, drawn by (black) student Bryheim Muse, depict “a caricature of a black woman saying, ‘Would you look at the time… I’m late for my abortion’ while wearing a shirt that reads ‘Black Lives Matter,’” and “a gardening hoe asking a black man ‘Who is you calling a hoe?’”
The man responds “I’m sorry ma’am, you just look like a hoe.”
Some took the cartoons as a joke, but others found them “racist and sexist.”
Shaylynn Bivens, vice president of the university’s black student union, sent a statement to The Huffington Post about the problematic nature of the drawings, especially when a racial divide already exists on campus.“We have worked hard, especially black women, to defy and break down all of the stereotypes that were thrown at us,” she said in the statement. “It is humiliating to know that we were dehumanized by a fellow African-American male. He essentially gave the white students a reason to disrespect and think less of us. That comic promotes hate speech. Student Tiffany Griffin said she wasn’t satisfied with the forum [set up by the administration and newspaper to discuss the issue]. She told HuffPost that several students felt the administration wasn’t taking the matter seriously. So she, along with Bivens and Damyra Price, created a list of demands which they said they plan on presenting to University President Robert Clark in a meeting on Thursday..."
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