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President Mark Schlissel (U-M photo)
Racism has no bounds, even in a liberal college town like Ann Arbor.
Alexa St. John and Riyah Basha of the Michigan Daily write that more than 200 students gathered in Angell Hall at the University of Michigan for an hour Monday afternoon to protest racially charged posters found hanging in University buildings and around campus earlier in the day.
The posters included comments such as “reasons why women shouldn’t date black men” and explanations of “race differences in intelligence," the paper reports.
University President Mark Schlissel and three other university officials issue a statement on the school's website:
Early this morning, a member of our University of Michigan community found and removed several fliers in Haven and Mason halls, in the heart of central campus, that espouse a racist point of view.
Messages of racial, ethnic or religious discrimination have no place at the University of Michigan. Targeted attacks against groups of people serve only to tear apart our university community.
While we continue to defend any individual’s right to free speech on our campus, these types of attacks directed toward any individual or group, based on a belief or characteristic, are inconsistent with the university’s values of respect, civility and equality.
The postings come about a week after racist graffiti appeared at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti,
