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Protests, arrests, tears, negotiations: Activism at Texas State leaves Black students with unhealed wounds


Students, including Tafari Robertson (center), gather around the Fighting Stallions during the March on Clegg, Monday, Feb. 5, 2018, on the Quad.
Star file photo
Editor’s Note: For the remainder of the school year, The University Star will take on “The 11% Project”, an examination of Black students at Texas State through History, Election, Hometowns, Activism, Creatives and 10 years from now.
It took Tafari Robertson two years post-graduation to process the trauma he endured as a student at Texas State.
“In the year [following] everything that happened on campus.I had graduated, but I was still in San Marcos,” Robertson says. “That was just, like, a really rough year for me because it was leaving the activist space. You know, it s hard to look back on and feel like you really did everything you could have.” ....

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