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Courtesy Henry Litsky April 26, 2021
Immediately after Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd this past Tuesday, University President Sarah Mangelsdorf sent out a mass email. Her opening line reminded everyone that “[UR] is committed to being an antiracist institution.”
Are we? The University is definitely an institution, and certainly loves to claim they’re working to be anti-racist. But improving your image by paying lip service to helping underserved communities does nothing to actually help those communities.