As
an organization dedicated to creating a community that is more
inclusive and immigrant friendly, the CU Immigration Forum would like
to take this opportunity to condemn the provocative chalk writings
that have been appearing around the campus recently, and their
blatantly anti-feminist, Muslim, Black, and Latin@ sentiments, as
well as the racist Facebook group which also surfaced around the same
time.
As
its name suggests, the CU Immigration Forum was created with a belief
that dialogue is key to fostering communication and building ties
within the community. Only through sharing our stories and creating a
positive atmosphere for interaction do we create the potential for
understanding one another, and so a belief in the power of speech and
an open exchange of thoughts and ideas is a foundational aspect of
our organization.
These
writings however, pervert this process and use speech as a weapon.
Their intent is to assault, and violence does not build, it only
destroys, so it is the violent intent of the words that were chosen
and the placement of those messages that we wish to condemn in the
strongest possible terms.
We
at the CU Immigration Forum believe that our community is at its best
when we stand, work, and dream together, and we therefore join with
the many other campus and community organizations who categorically
reject these crude attempts at exclusion and intimidation.
