Charles Murray: Protests To Divide In America

On Friday 29th a panel of speakers and a group discussion between students and past alumni to converse their perspective on today’s society issues. Such as racism in America, the divide between the two dominant parties. The event commenced with a professor from Middlebury College, Dr. Allison Stranger, informing the audience the incident that took place on her campus. When the conservative scholar Charles Murray came for a speech and discussion. That day a protest occurred instead of a speech and Dr. Stranger recalled the events that led up to her getting a concussion. She saw that 74-year-old Murray was getting pushed by the crowd of protestors, so she lend him a hand and the hate turned to her. After Dr.Stranger shared her experienced the panel of speakers each had five minutes to speak. …show more content…
I couldn’t agree more ever since the election, it’s like there’s an invisible barrier separating people in this country. Like Dr.Stranger and the protestors I strongly disagree with Murray’s bell curve but I was appalled to hear that people recited to violence, pushing and shoving a seventy-four-year-old and one of their very own. I believe that a protest that turns to violence simply doesn’t get the message across, thus it becomes futile. On the other hand I’m all for boycotting, peaceful protest and standing up for your beliefs. This is especially crucial in today’s society. One of the speakers displayed an image of a person holding a sign that said, “Racism is as America as baseball”. He then elaborated how racism has existed since the earliest days and has been a part of American culture. Unfortunately this image represented the harsh reality that’s still relevant