University's 'Latinx' Coalition Demands a Race-Based Revolution so Members Can 'Thrive'

At Duke University, some Hispanic groups have had it. Therefore, they’re making monumental demands.

According to their guest column in independent student paper The Chronicle, the crews have coalesced for a phenomenal first:

For the first time, Latinx organizations at Duke have all united to further the interests of the Latinx community. These demands serve as accountability for the many times Latinx students tirelessly advocated for a more equitable campus.

The alliance asserts Duke has a “rich” Latino history. However, students have “time and again reported feelings of otherness or invisibility.”

Per the piece, many Latin organizations were formed to create “safe spaces” so Hispanics could feel comfortable. Tragically, those attempts failed.

And why? “Microaggressions.”

Such problems, the association asserts, go deep “within the structure of the university.”

Whoever penned the op-ed was a master of modernity; the first paragraph alone employs a woke-word Who’s Who.

Concepts contained:

Safe spaces

Structural racism

Microaggressions

Community

Being seen

Othering

Marginalized

Equity

The opening additionally hammers home “Latinx” — a term, per a 2020 report, unused by 97% of American Hispanics.

In the first four sentences, it’s employed five times.

The demands are driven just as astutely:

We demand Duke establish a Latinx cultural center on campus.

We demand that co-chairs of Latino Student Recruitment Weekend (LSRW) receive payment, as well as LSRW become fully funded from outside Latinx organizations’ annual budget.

We demand Duke establish a permanent, easily accessible fund for Latinx organizations’ graduation, stoles, and awards

We demand Duke University increase Latinx faculty and staff representation.

We demand Duke reinstate merit scholarships specific to international Latin American students.

We demand Duke reinstate merit scholarships specific to international Latin American students.

We demand Duke increase admissions office recruitment in highly Latinx parts of cities.

We demand a President’s Council on Latinx Affairs.

Would they simply prefer their own school? The list doesn’t suggest a firm “no.”

Either way:

The demands…are the bare minimum for Latinx students to thrive…

Our current college climate is a far cry from just a generation back. Mere decades ago, one might obtain their degree without ever hearing of race-specific groups.

Back then, Americans’ “communities” were the neighborhoods in which they lived; safety wasn’t secured by sticking to similar shades of skin; recognition by others didn’t determine one’s sense of being; and less common traits were merely “marginal” — a benign state — rather than “marginalized” — the result of malignant oppression.

We’ve come a far ways, indeed.

Will the coalition acquire all they seek? Perhaps.

We’re living in an era of students standing up: In March at American University, students demanded they be forced to wear masks. At Tulane University two years ago, the Black Student Union demanded reparations and free tuition. Last year at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, attendees demanded a ban on “white supremacists” such as pro-life groups.

As for microaggressions, those are contemporary killers:

College Schools Students and Staff on Microaggressions' 'Death by a Thousand Cuts' and the 'Myth of Meritocracy'
https://t.co/zVLKd6lrH2

— RedState (@RedState) July 7, 2021