Word: racial
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...seeing friends again, and the fun of parties without having to worry about schoolwork. Instead, for students returning to Virginia’s flagship campus in Charlottesville, Va., that week—and several weeks afterward—will be remembered for the string of ugly incidents of racial harassment and intimidation that jolted the school and prompted a public response from the university president...
Passing motorists yelled racial slurs at students. A black student named Phillip Jackson found the words “Nigger/I hate Jesus” written on the whiteboard on his room door, according to the university newspaper, the Cavalier Daily. And the Washington Post reported that a black student, sophomore Kyle Miller, found a racist note written in red capital letters on the windshield of his vehicle...
...Five racial incidents were reported to officials in the span of only three days during the week of Aug. 22, and at least nine separate incidents were documented in the first few weeks of school...
...incidents have since stopped, but they have reawakened concerns about racial discrimination. The university continues to implement measures to promote diversity and fight bigotry that had been recommended after prior incidents, but some students and staff say the university must do more...
...aggressively approaching and robbing you at a BMF meeting, and you won't walk into an ABHW meeting to find hysterical black women screaming at one another and eager to bite your head off. The sooner people stop being intimidated and learn to use these organizations to adjust their racial comfort zones and break out of stereotypical thinking, the sooner my friends can stop coming to me with those annoying stories, and we can all start behaving like the educated, worldly people...