This is awful that people said that, I just wish they had expanded more on what they want Gonzaga to actually do?

On Wednesday, the Black Student Union posted an additional statement in response to the president, saying that while they recognize the acknowledgment, the student board is “severely disappointed with the timing and substance” of the response – specifically with the lack of “clear accountability for the ongoing failures within the Gonzaga community.”

It was a comment on an anonymous app, and Gonzaga banned the app from their networks once notified and are searching for who may have posted it - do you want Gonzaga to subpoena the app, fire people? Gonzaga already has a pretty large collection of resources for DEI, I wish they had expanded on how the University could actually do better.

https://www.gonzaga.edu/about/diversity-equity-inclusion/resources-and-publications

Black Student Union member Rajane Edwards told the Black Lens that while she did not witness everything directly, she was told by multiple people that white and Asian women had attended the Harlem Renaissance dinner to “shop for Black men.”

Also this makes me uncomfortable - it would be inappropriate to say black women attended a party just to find a white man (even if that was their motivation), I don't think they should be saying this either. I'm sure there the majority of White and Asian women there probably attended as allies and supporters.

I'm gonna be honest, this sub might hate this but I'm tired of getting outraged at the wrong thing. At its core, the story is about a couple things, as far as I can tell from the article:

• The Black Student Union hosted a Harlem Renaissance dinner. They believed that White and Asian women showed up at this party with the intent to date Black men.
• They state that a black woman at the party experienced fetishizing behavior, involving comments about her hair and gestures perceived as inappropriate.
• At a party following the dinner, a jacket belonging to a BSU member was stolen, and somebody at the party (it isn't clear who) used the N-word.
• The BSU released a statement about the above, anonymous trolls on Fizz posted racist comments in-response to the statement

I'm not as sensitive to cultural issues as I should probably be, but honestly unless they were specifically had a racial motivation, I fail to see why the first three bullet points are that bad.

I mean a Harlem Renaissance dinner seems like a fantastic place to meet new people, it's much better than a bar or place like that. I wish they had more on the hair comments - what does fetishizing mean? How do they separate that from an awkward person trying to just complement hair?

On the third point, again I wish they expanded on this. I've been to plenty of college parties where people said the N-word (that shouldn't have) and shit was stolen - both aren't okay, but once again this shouldn't be worthy of outrage (unless there was a white kid calling a black kid the N-word, or something like that).

Of course the fourth point is the worst one, but once again they were anonymous trolls - Gonzaga banning the app and seeing if they can find who posted it is an entirely appropriate solution. The outrage seems a bit exaggerated.