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This has been going on for years. The sickening part-excuses will be made and nothing will happen to the POS.

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The students identified as the people behind a recent racist drawing found at Salisbury University’s library are black, school officials confirmed Tuesday.

The image, found April 10 on a whiteboard in Blackwell Library, showed a stick figure being hung and labeled with a racial slur. Underneath was the hashtag “#whitepower.”

The university confirmed Tuesday, April 26, the students involved in the incident were black, spokesman Richard Culver wrote in an email. The university would not provide names of the students, citing the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.

This information was first reported in the university’s student newspaper, The Flyer.

Since the incident, Salisbury University Police Department has completed its investigation, Culver said. In consultation with the Wicomico County State’s Attorney’s Office, the department has decided to not file criminal charges at this time.

The investigation is being turned over to the university and will be reviewed for any possible university policy violations, Culver said. If charged, those students who were involved could face disciplinary action.

“Regardless of who created the drawing, we find such actions demeaning to all members of the campus community and against our core values,” Dane Foust, vice president of Student Affairs, said in a statement provided by Culver.

Matthew Jackson, a senior at the university, said whoever drew that image didn’t understand the severity of it, and the fact that people were actually lynched throughout history. And that’s an issue, he said.

“The main problem … was that someone thought it was a joke,” he added. “(It was) an act of immaturity.”

For that sort of image to pop up in this day and age, Jackson said, shows the disjoint of education. People don’t know what happened, or don’t know how severe it was. They don’t seem to understand slavery and racism are not something to make light of.

Jackson said he’s had contact with the administration and that there’s a hope to have a meeting in coming weeks about what happened, and the goals students have been working toward in education and diversity.

The incident reignited the conversation around race on the Eastern S**** campus — a conversation that’s been at the forefront both locally and nationally for a while now.

Following the incident, University President Janet Dudley-Eshbach released a letter to students and faculty.

“Diversity is a core value of SU, and reports of such acts are taken seriously. The university will not tolerate this kind of language or behavior,” Eshbach wrote.

As of fall 2014, 2,156 students at the school out of 8,770 were minority students, according to the most recent Cultural Diversity Progress Report. Minority students now make up 25 percent of the student population, based on that report.

But despite Eshbach’s goals of diversity, and increases in minority students on campus, racial tensions have still run high during the last year.

Just before Thanksgiving, the president called a meeting with minority student leaders to discuss race relations on campus. It’s a meeting that ended abruptly, with students reading a letter asking for more time, and walking out.

“As students of color, WE DO NOT point fingers nor cast blame for the lack of awareness and understanding in regards to the black experience here at Salisbury University, keeping in mind that racism and cultural segregation existed long before any of us stepped foot on campus,” the letter read.

“However, we refuse to deny that the current environment on campus takes a huge toll on the psyche of students of color affected by the subconscious oppression.”

Jackson was one of those students at the meeting. He and other student leaders have been working to move forward with diversity initiatives holding forums and talking to students all year long.

When the racist graffiti showed up, it was a hurtful gesture, especially after all the work they’d tried to do, he had said.

“After we’ve already been making these strides … to see something like this. … It goes to show that there’s still work to be done,” Jackson said earlier this month.

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Jim Alba ·

Black students draw the offensive picture and "it is an act of immaturity". If white students draw that picture, a riot breaks out on campus, the University President is forced to resign and the guilty parties are kicked out of school.
 
Brian Pride
Unbelievable! If the criminals in this case had been white or race other than black they would be charged with a “Hate Crime”, the FBI would have been called in, Brothers Sharpton and Jackson would want some reparations, the university President would have to resign, and maybe Obama would weigh in.
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Obama would weigh in. He'd say "if I had a son it would look like that stick figure". 
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Jack Flash posted:
The negro thugs should be charged with a hate crime and
registered as a felon. First thing would be to suspend the thugs
for no less than two years from any school, what so ever.

They don't care if you suspend them, as long as they still get those "school grants" that they spend for everything else besides school fees.

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