CSUF college students react to racist graffiti

FULLERTON, Calif. — Being a minority on California State College, Fullerton’s campus has not been straightforward for Mykayla Miller, co-president of the Black Scholar Union. 

Black college students make up 2% of the varsity inhabitants, and Miller says she’s skilled racism as an unlucky a part of the tradition on the faculty. 

Final weekend, racist graffiti appeared on a dumpster on the College Village Flats, a fancy subsequent to the campus that primarily homes college students. 

“None of us are stunned that this occurred, whether or not it’s on campus or off campus, nevertheless it’s simply the truth that we’re at our breaking level,” Miller stated.

The college’s President Framroze Virjee pointed us to a press release made after the incident condemning the graffiti.

Within the assertion, Virjee known as the graffiti hurtful, abhorrent and an affront to what the college stands for. 

The varsity declined to remark additional on what they’re doing in response. 

Miller says statements of condemnation merely aren’t sufficient. She desires to see the varsity focus in racial sensitivity coaching, to assist present college students the results of those actions. 

Whereas the varsity hasn’t introduced any additional motion, Erin-Kate Escobar thinks racial sensitivity coaching might help foster a extra welcoming atmosphere.

She’s a variety, fairness and inclusion advisor who labored at Caltech and the College of Vermont, striving to make school campuses extra conscious and delicate to points surrounding race. 

“Racial sensitivity coaching, anti-bias coaching, when carried out properly, is usually a enormous supply of constructing a local weather of psychological security on campus,” stated Escobar. 

Whereas the college hasn’t dedicated to taking any motion in response to this incident, Miller and the remainder of the Black Scholar Union are persevering with the dialog on campus and striving to create a studying atmosphere freed from racism.