So what would you do if you had White students referring to their Black roommate with racial epithets, decorated their college suite with swastikas and Nazi symbols, and on top of it all tried to shackle the aforementioned Black roommate with a U-shaped bike lock?
Would you take action? Or call for a committee?
San Jose State knew what to do once the police reports were out: Call a news conference. Establish a campus-wide forum in December, a lecture series on racism and intolerance in the Spring.
So proactive!
It’s like all of it was on a shelf at the ready once some “panic” button was hit.
And believe me, just before Thanksgiving, school administrators saw the red button and hit it hard.
But before then, San Jose State (a commuter school in the Silicon Valley that is not Stanford, but not San Jose City College, and known historically for the Black Power salute of Olympic medalists Tommie Smith and John Carlos) was happy to sit waiting for what they should have known was inevitable.
