Cross Campus: 10.7.08
Dwight Hall defaced As pictured on right, the words “White Guilt” were found spray-painted on the High Street wall of Dwight Hall early Tuesday morning, clearly visible from the Library Walk. Dwight Hall is the center of community service on campus.
The Yale Political Union passed the resolution, “Resolved: Bring Reserve Officers Training Corps back to campus,” Monday night during a debate keynoted by Capt. Pete Hegseth, who recently returned from Iraq. Hegseth called the Iraq war a “war of ideas and ideologies” and said the U.S. “can’t afford to not have our nation’s...
So #1, you're saying that those who harbor profound hatred should not "be made to think of themselves as anything other than normal, acceptable, and united with other people?"
I think they're abnormal, and they should feel as much.
This is a sad and deplorable act. Dwight Hall is the best institution that Yale has to offer, and the student leaders who selflessly volunteer there as tutors, mentors, and activists, among others, deserve our full support as a Yale and New Haven community. I expect to see a full University response to this disgusting act.
This is just another cheaply bought provocation by some pathetic fool who derives pleasure from observing Yale's collective writhing and exasperation. Shrug it off.
The same phrase was spray-painted on buildings at two local private schools:
http://www.wtnh.com/global/story.asp?s=9138664
"White Guilt," like "Nigger School" or "Drama Fags," is another said instance of hate. Whereas last year's graffiti sought to make it uncomfortable for Black and LGBT students (and Drama students, really...) to be at Yale, this graffiti seeks to make White students concerned with social justice and racial equality uncomfortable by branding them as traitors to their own.
Now all the facets of White Supremacy, which includes hate towards Whites who do not support the ideology, have been revealed.
Instead of pointing fingers or pontificating on who was involved, let's just take this time to realize what still lurks in our society and to rededicate ourselves to the belief that "no one should be made to think of themselves as anything other than normal, acceptable, and united with other people."**
Con amor,
Luis
**quote courtesy of Ted E.