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Saturday, June 11, 2022
On June 2, Ponaganset Excessive Faculty, which providers college students from Foster/Glocester in addition to college students from across the space who’re enrolled of their STEM and ARTS applications, have been subjected to a racist, anti-LGBTQI incident.
A number of college students went to highschool displaying Accomplice flags. Together with the flags, there have been different messages of hate together with “Don’t Tread on Me” capes, 2024 “Trump Returns” in addition to “F-ck Biden” shirts. These messages have been in direct response to the primary day of homosexual delight month the place college students and lecturers wore and displayed t-shirts, capes and flags to acknowledge the month.
The administration’s response was weak, to say the least, and I quote, “A Member of our administration staff seen within the hallway some college students had flags symbolizing anti-tolerance tradition”.
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Though the notification does embrace language to sentence hate speech it doesn’t go far sufficient. The correlation of the Accomplice flag as a selected type of pupil intimidation, racism and hate messaging was by no means made. There was additionally no proof that any punitive motion will probably be taken. Emails and calls that have been made by me weren’t returned.
Whereas watching the hearings on January sixth, chills overtake me as I take into consideration the way forward for our Democracy. These identical college students who show hate and racist messaging are being indoctrinated right into a tradition that sees January sixth, 2021 as a day of American delight not as a day of infamy. They don’t correlate that the Accomplice flag is an indication of pro-slavery, Christian, white supremacy. They don’t correlate what a slap within the face it’s to these buried at Acotes Area in Glocester who died within the Civil Struggle who fought to finish slavery.
The administration waited till the following day to tell most of the people of the occasion. There ought to have been a direct response to point the seriousness of what occurred. The administration failed to do this, and Ponaganset continues to be problematic to those that don’t match into the 99% demographics of white Christian.
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Lauren Niedel is a political activist, environmentalist, vegan and “will do what it takes to reform the Rhode Island Democratic celebration.” She resides in Chepachet, RI.
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