Column: Now is the time for civic grace
Victory for the majority has come to America.
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Victory for the majority has come to America.
It’s not just America — the abuse of authority is happening everywhere.
2020 has shown us that nothing is straightforward, everything can change instantly and there is only so much humans can control. Serving as a university administrator — let alone as the face of the first public university in the United States — amid a pandemic and social unrest must be one of the most stressful and draining jobs right now. But this is the exact job of Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz. I believe he has and still is striving to best serve all of the University's stakeholders, especially students.
"What about Obama?" This question is commonly used to dismiss the reality of systemic racism in America. Although there are numerous reasons this question is flawed, there may be a point there. If there really is pervasive institutional racial bias in America, how could Barack Obama become president of the United States? Before you exit the browser, this isn’t a commentary on Obama’s biracial privilege; this is about the Black privilege that we don’t talk about. It’s about the nuance between African descendants of recent immigrants, like myself, and long-standing African descendants who have struggled in America for five centuries.