Campus protestors who are fighting against the veiled threat of institutional racism have forced out another college dean.
Dean Mary Spellman of Claremont McKenna College resigned Thursday after campus protests and hunger strikes when she sent an email to a Hispanic student saying that she would work to serve those who “don’t fit our CMC mold,” reported the Los Angeles Times.
The dean apologized, but students were unforgiving and demanded greater “diversity” of faculty, staff, services, and students — everything but a diversity of ideas.
Racial tensions have been building since the spring when 30 minority students wrote to President Hiram E. Chodosh stating they felt excluded, isolated, and intimidated despite the fact that the school is a minority-majority school. Only 43 percent of the student body is white.
Part of their grievances stem from defacement of a Black Lives Matter poster, overheard racial slurs, perceived insensitivity towards other cultures, and silence on the part of the administration.
Spellman said in her resignation email that she hoped the end of her career will help bring closure to the divided student body.
Students have said that this is the beginning of a new period for the school, and a lot of work has to be done to end the institutional racism.
One has to wonder: Do these kids know they have to leave college in the next four years?
A YouTube video emerged of the protests, and it has been universally panned, receiving nearly as much negative criticism as Justin Bieber’s song Baby.
Watch a video below of the Claremont protests:
