Racial Harassment And Injustice In Colleges

Since the conclusion of the Civil Rights Movement in 1968, people in the United States are still forced to cope with an increased amount of overt and covert instances of institutional racism in silence. While the racially motivated homicides of Trevyon Martin, Michael Brown, Jordan Davis and the Charleston Nine have received numerous national headlines, the instances of racial prejudice and discrimination on college campuses nationwide are often left unspoken out of fear for the ramifications that may result from the complaints. However, following the series of events that led up to the public resignation of the University of Missouri’s president and chancellor, the silence has thus been broken and more and more complaints of racial injustice are being made, but many more victims are still too afraid to speak out or they do not believe that their complaints will be taken seriously by the campus administration as been proven time and time again by the inaction of university presidents, staff and faculty when confronted with these concerns. …show more content…
colleges have a race problem?” Cable News Network reporter, Brandon Griggs, addresses the most recent surge in complaints of racial harassment and injustice on college campuses across the United States. He writes that, contrary to popular belief, this increase in reports does not indicate a new phenomenon occurring on college campus, but rather it is the result of students becoming emboldened by the “Black Lives Matter” movement to stand up and speak out against the racial tensions they experience on a daily basis. Prior to this, an estimated 87% of all racialized incidents on college campus went unreported because the victims did not believe it was worth the consequences that, they themselves, might have had to endure without any action taken against the perpetrators (Griggs,