No lawyers or prosecutors brought this case forward, just some administrators at a university that had a conscience and the will to bring justice to injustice.
March 20, 2018
A group of law students (click here) have been suspended from the University of Exeter over allegations of racism.
It comes after "vile" comments made by members of a law society on WhatsApp were revealed by a student and shared more than 2,000 times on Facebook.
Police have been informed and "full disciplinary action will be taken as appropriate," the university said.
One student has had a job offer withdrawn by a law firm who said they are "deeply disturbed by the messages".
The WhatsApp messages, screenshots of which are included below, were branded "sickening" and "disgusting" by fellow students.
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One of the students issued a "sincere apology for his inexcusable comments", saying: "I will not attempt to excuse and deny any of the statements I have made. The comments, which I shall not repeat, are inexcusable and undeniably wrong.
"I would like to make it publicly known that I do not honestly believe any of the things I have said."
The university said it "does not tolerate any form of racist behaviour"....
It didn't stop there:
March 20, 2018
Yesterday, (click here) The Tab revealed Exeter law students' horrifying racism in a group chat. So far they've been suspended from uni, and some have lost their prestigious training contracts at law firms.
Since September we've called out students at Nottingham Trent chanting "we hate the blacks" outside a black student's door.
We've exposed the racism of a Sheffield student comparing Black Lives Matter to Planet of the Apes, and Bournemouth students calling a black woman a "big black ape".
That's without mentioning the countless incidences of people blacking up, but insisting it's not racist.
We're committed to listening to, investigating, and exposing experiences of racial discrimination suffered by students at university....
These are good and decent people in awareness of wrong doing with the conscience to do something about it. The university administrators took it further and made it all the students' business to end any type of racism known to exist on their campus.UNFORTUNATELY, this is not USA.
In the USA, every aspect of hate is exaggerated into a political dialogue and it is destroying this country. With the issue at University of Exeter there was no political question attached in an odd way to funding. The racism was wrong and there would be consequences for it.
March 19, 2018
By Jeff Adelson
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, (click here) in an interview with Trevor Noah on "The Daily Show" Monday night, said a broad discussion on race is necessary to stop the issue from being used by demagogues to divide the country.
An extended version of the interview posted on Comedy Central’s website includes sections where Noah and Landrieu discuss the dangers of a rise in appeals to racism.
“In America one of the great political successes has been turning working-class white people and working-class black people against each other on the issue of race and not talking about how economically we can work together,” Landrieu said. “So we have to work through that.”
The "Daily Show" interview is the latest stop in a national media tour supporting Landrieu’s new book, “In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History,” which hits stores on Tuesday.
Landrieu has already discussed the book on ABC’s "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," appeared on "60 Minutes" to talk about the Confederate statues he had removed, and is slated to be on "Real Time with Bill Maher" later this week....
We have bombs going off in the USA and two people are dead and others struggling to heal their wounds. There is no rush of conscience to end the hate before it gets started. This level of fear and hate should never exist in the USA, but, it does and everyone needs to ask why.
