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A week after a racist note was slipped into the backpack of a freshman student at University of California, Irvine, the school has vowed to find and discipline the person or persons responsible.
Reading “Go back 2 Africa slave,” the note was found by Charity Lyons in the science library May 7. The L.A. Times says university police are investigating the note as a hate incident.
The Dean’s List student and track team member has been the target of racism in the past at the school. The week prior to receiving the offensive note, Lyons was called the N-word by an Asian student, according to her mother.
On Tuesday, Chancellor Michael Drake pledged to chastise the individual (s) responsible:
Last week we received information regarding an offensive note that was found in the backpack of one of our students. Our police department immediately launched an investigation. When apprehended the responsible individual (s) will face appropriate sanctions. We have clear and unwavering policies forbidding such hateful actions, and we take the security and well-being of everyone on campus most seriously. We do not, and will not, tolerate this kind of behavior.
Drake added that while the university celebrates its “continued progress in the fight for equity and inclusion,” “we know that the struggle is never quite complete.”
Of course, this is not the only recent example of racism at the school. In late April a video starring an Asian fraternity member sporting blackface sparked outrage at UC Irvine. The frat, Lambda Theta Delta, voluntarily suspended itself until fall 2014.
Even LA’s Department of Public Works is getting in on intolerance.
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