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Black Students Take Over University; "Real Pain, Real Change"
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Baldo
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Thanks LTC for posting that.

It is becoming apparent that all the facts are not clear. I suggest that if we want to continue this thread we need to just gather facts for a while and leave out the commentary.

So let's find out the facts.
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Noose hung by Minority Student.




UCSD Student Paper Runs “Verified” Apology from Student Who Hung Noose


March 1, 2010

The Guardian, UCSD’s student newspaper, has printed a statement that it says was written by the student who hung a noose in the campus library last week.

The student — who remains anonymous — claims that last Tuesday, two days before the noose was found, a friend of hers fashioned it from a piece of rope she had found on the ground, “without thinking of any of its connotations or the current racial climate at UCSD.” She herself then carried the noose with her to the library “and ended up hanging it at my desk.” It was, she says, “a mindless act and stupid mistake.” When she left the library hours later, “I simply forgot about it.”

The student says that she didn’t learn of the noose’s discovery until Friday morning. “Ashamed and embarrassed,” she called campus police and confessed. “As a minority student who sympathizes with the students that have been affected by recent issues on campus,” she writes, “I am distraught to know that I have unintentionally added to their pain.”

An editor’s note at the end of her statement says that the paper “has verified the author’s authenticity.”

The full text of the statement, which at this writing is only available in PDF form at the paper’s website, appears below.

I have a story that needs to be heard. I am the girl you’ve read about, the one who hung the noose in Geisel Library.

Firstly, I’m writing to apologize. I don’t have an excuse for what I did, and I deeply regret it.

Secondly, I’m writing to hopefully put a little bit of faith back into the UCSD campus by clarifying that it was not an act of racism. This is what happened.

I found a small piece of rope on the ground earlier in the day. While I was hanging out with my friends a bit later, we tried jump- roping with it and making it into a lasso. My friend then took the rope and tied it into a noose. I innocently marveled at his ability to tie a noose, without thinking of any of its connotations or the current racial climate at UCSD. I left soon after with one of my friends for Geisel to study, still carrying the rope. After a bit of studying I picked up the rope to play with, and ended up hanging it by my desk. It was a mindless act and stupid mistake. When I got up to leave, a couple hours later, I simply forgot about it. This was Tuesday night. Three days later, on Friday morning, I found out that the noose had been found and construed as another racist act on campus. I felt so ashamed and embarrassed, and the first thing I did was call the campus police and confess. I was hoping to clarify that this was not an act of racism before the incident got a full reaction from the campus. I gave my statement around 9 a.m. They thanked me for coming forward and for trying to clear up the issue. Later, I received a campuswide e-mail saying that I confessed and had been taken into custody, which simply wasn’t true. One thing that is true is that I have been suspended. I know what I did was offensive — regardless of my intentions — I am just trying to say I’m sorry. As a minority student who sympathizes with the students that have been affected by the recent issues on campus, I am distraught to know that I have unintentionally added to their pain.

http://studentactivism.net/2010/03/01/ucsd-student-paper-runs-apology/

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This was evidently known by the some of the black students leading the protesting as they had entries in their twitter accounts telling others, but then saying - a Noose means Death, plain and simple - and the school was responsible for letting the noose remain to be seen.

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I suspected the leader of the Noosteria was a minority because the Chancellor or Vice-chancellor while saying all the changes the school has to make and how vile all the actions were - then slipped in that the Noose was a "misguided" effort.

That word "misguided" was very telling.

That, and the fact the media hadn't descended on anyone's house, made it clear she didn't fit the profile to enrage the media.

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Mar 1 2010, 04:16 PM
This was evidently known by the some of the black students leading the protesting as they had entries in their twitter accounts telling others, but then saying - a Noose means Death, plain and simple - and the school was responsible for letting the noose remain to be seen.

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I guess they will have to hire more security guards at the school, perhaps one to follow each student around, so no one will leave their belongings behind. This gets more ludicrous by the day, I hang a noose somewhere, so that I can protest it and blame the school for not finding it.
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So what do we know?

1)Who created the invitation?
(I think this issue needs to be affirmed)

2)Who hung the noose?
We now know one was a minority student with others.

3)Who stormed the Administration?
a group of black activists, but exactly who?

4)Were the Black Activists aware of 1& 2?

It is a sorry state of affairs. However it looks like a dumb idea and a group of opportunists.

A Hoax?
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Mar 1 2010, 04:35 PM
So what do we know?

1)Who created the invitation?
(I think this issue needs to be affirmed)

2)Who hung the noose?
We now know one was a minority student with others.

3)Who stormed the Administration?
a group of black activists, but exactly who?

4)Were the Black Activists aware of 1& 2?

It is a sorry state of affairs. However it looks like a dumb idea and a group of opportunists.

A Hoax?
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They said the took the Building because of the Noose.

It was an orchestrated Hoax.

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Edited by Mason, Mar 1 2010, 04:37 PM.
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If you read carefully, some of the lead protesters were saying from the beginning that they were unhappy with the school's RESPONSE to the Noose.

It wasn't the Noose, you see, it was the School's response.

Is this like going after someone with deep pockets in civil litigation and leaving out the poor sap with no assets?


The noose incident spurred multiple protests in the state. According to the blog Occupy CA, 300 UCSD students gathered outside Chancellor Marye Anne Fox's office to protest what they felt was a weak response to the incident from the school's administration. A similar protest formed at UCLA to show solidarity with UCSD students.


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Mar 1 2010, 04:37 PM
Baldo
Mar 1 2010, 04:35 PM
So what do we know?

1)Who created the invitation?
(I think this issue needs to be affirmed)

2)Who hung the noose?
We now know one was a minority student with others.

3)Who stormed the Administration?
a group of black activists, but exactly who?

4)Were the Black Activists aware of 1& 2?

It is a sorry state of affairs. However it looks like a dumb idea and a group of opportunists.

A Hoax?
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They said the took the Building because of the Noose.

It was an orchestrated Hoax.

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Agreed Mason an orchestrated hoax. Baldo's question on who created the invitation, anyone could have written it, but I'm pretty sure they got some advice from the AA entertainer Jiggaboo Jones, he seems to have a lot of insight on the hood/ghetto.

http://www.jiggaboojones.com/

His name was somewhere on the original invitation, according to him.
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Meanwhile, while they hid the identity of the Noose Terrorist (aren't Police reports public information, like they are in the states I've resided?), numerous congressman weighed in and the Governor put out a statement condemning the racist acts that have taken place there. While they hid the ID, the New York Times (which most assuredly knew the Identity) wrote a piece covering the racists and the noble reaction to the dangerous campus climate.

Like I always say, it's about the timing.

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This was a HOAX, just like the Columbia noose was a hoax- and the media will not retract it's allegations of "racism" over the "way" the school administration treated "the noose."

Edited by Texas Mom, Mar 1 2010, 05:17 PM.
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Mar 1 2010, 05:12 PM
This was a HOAX, just like the Columbia noose was a hoax- and the media will not retract it's allegations of "racism" over the "way" the school administration treated "the noose."

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I was thinking Jena-6.

Jena-6 was a hoax. The real story did not resemble the story the National press reported - and the kids that jumped and beat an unconscious white kid got thousands and thousands dollars in cash - and were invited to BET award shows and the like.

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Earlier this year, the UCSD BSU, with the larger statewide coalition, organized and coordinated the “Do UC Us?” campaign in an effort to increase the numbers of black students on the UCSD campus. The “Do UC Us?” campaign clearly addressed the issues of campus climate at UCSD compiled with admission statistics and criteria, diversity and yield reports from the university through the form of student testimonial, demands and student-initiated programs to increase the yield of black students.


http://www.10news.com/news/22682950/detail.html


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