Kenneth Newby told
The Undefeated. “It was about anti-blackness issues within the British Parliamentary debate space.”
Points were awarded to other teams as judges ignored the arguments that were made by Morehouse during a round. Morehouse says the arguments made during the topic of narrative gentrification were ignored due to the students’ background.
“The judges said they cared more about the Western stories that were being discussed such as Cinderella and The Little Mermaid as compared to native African stories that we talked about, like the Epic of Mwindo or Cherokee creations,” said Strickland.
After Morehouse brought the issues to the attention of the tournament’s equity team a team that ensures no discrimination of any kind they promised to release a statement addressing the issue before the next round, but never proceeded to do so. Tournament leadership said they didn’t address the issue immediately due to an isolated issue with certain judges a
Morehouse And Other Colleges Pull Out Of Debate Event After Students Say They Endured Anti-Black Mockery
In a display of solidarity, Spelman, Clemson and Vanderbilt have all decided to no longer partake in the event.
April 29, 2021 at 5:54 pm
After saying they experienced multiple incidents of anti-Blackness at the virtual United States Universities Debating Championship (USUDC) this month, Morehouse College debate team announced in a statement that they d be parting ways with the event.
According to Undefeated, debate team member and Morehouse senior, Daniel Edwards, and sophomore, Caleb Strickland, were subject to racial slurs and mockery from students at the University of Hawaii during the Penn USUDC 2021 debate in early April.
Samuel Mironko 21 Published on January 22, 2021
Though offered entirely online and remotely through Zoom sessions, the college’s 2021 Martin Luther King Jr. Day program still delivered its share of insight, criticism, and hope.
Here are a few quotes that capture important messages from the day.
“I’ll never forget the shock I felt when Chris Wallace from Fox News asked, at the first presidential debate, ‘What does re-imagining policing look like?’ It marks an important moment that would have been inconceivable even last year: The rhetoric of Black Lives Matter protesters have made their way into the vocabulary of a Fox News journalist on a national debate stage.”