Shameless Self-Promotion Sunday!

This isn’t self-promotion, but I thought you should be aware of this incident that took place at University of Chicago (my alma mater and current employer):

http://www.chicagomaroon.com/2010/2/26/student-arrested-in-reg

I’m not involved with any of the student groups that may be organizing responses to this, but I hear that things will be happening.

A few of the comments to the Maroon article are spot-on:

“What I want to know is, would this have happened if these students had been white? I think not.”

“This situation is about more than one student in the library. This brings to light and surfaces the stories I heard as a prospy, the experiences I had as a first year student, and what I continue to hear from others now as a second year. This outrage is about how the police treats students of color on this campus. It is a symbol of why police-black and white- slow down when they see a black or brown male walking down a street in hyde park. It is a representation of what needs to change on this campus. Last year I was just walking down the street (in front of my dorm, Max) and I got stopped by the UCPD and they asked to see my I.D. Some say this is protocol, but my question is if I was a white student doing nothing else but walking down the 56th street would I have been stopped then?”