Student Voices on Campus

There are many ways that racial activism can be executed. Firstly, universities have to solicit activism on campuses and empower students to do the right thing. Universities must execute upon their words of “wanting to create the leaders of the world,” and must actually allow their students to speak up. The ways racial activism can be executed is by students protesting. The panelists explained that administration can get uptight on the way that students are protesting and forget the reason why students are protesting. I have first hand of experience with this, as I led a protest in high school, but I found that administrators are more concerned with expressing distress over the ways that students are protesting and try to shut down the protest due to safety concerns. In high school, I worked on a committee that worked alongside administrators to agree on safe ways for our students to perform their protest, therefore, the protest was not shut down. The panelists are saying that history turns due to protests and individuals speaking up to make change. Change does not happen in a committee meeting, but I do believe that using committees to help facilitate the student voice can help in many ways and helps ensure that change will happen.

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