A Black student returned to the Grand Valley State University campus this past Monday only to find something quite threatening on their dormitory room message board. According to authorities, the student found racist epithets with a degrading sketch drawn on there.
Dean of Students, Bart Merkle, said the sketch on the message illustrated a Black person being hanged with X’s for their eyes, and the statement was an anti-Black History comment with racial slurs. Merkle explained to the local affiliate Fox 17, “This is not something that we are used to having in our community,” Merkle said. “That hate really has no place on a campus or any place.”
This is not the first time a student of GVSU has found racial comments on their dorm message board. Another student has unfortunately dealt with this racism numerous times; it was so bad that she had to be forced to remove her message board.
The student plans to leave the university after the winter semester because of all the racism she and her roommate have been exposed to. “I’m just disgusted by coming to my room and seeing the negative messages on the door,” she said to Fox 17. “I feel uncomfortable, what do people have against me here? I’m a freshman, why can’t we just get along.”
Read more of this story at http://blackamericaweb.com/2014/02/21/black-student-finds-racist-comments-on-dorm-message-board/