Student Body VP Posts 'Forget Black Lives Matter,' Gets Suspended Plus Sensitivity Training
State an opinion different from the status quo, receive public humiliation. Rinse. Repeat.
8.2.2016
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The vice president of the University of Houston's Student Government Association found herself suspended after responding to the Dallas police murders last month, fuming in a Facebook post, "Forget #BlackLivesMatter. More like AllLivesMatter."
That's all it takes these days to be dragged before the court of progressive public opinion and whipped into submission. Because her opinion didn't line up as it was expected to with the Black Lives Matter movement, Rohini Sethi was targeted by minority student organizations who cried out for her removal with what's quickly becoming the world's most powerful weapon, the hashtag: #RemoveRohini.
And it worked. Student body President Shane A. Smith sided with protesters and suspended Rohini.
“Her post and subsequent actions were very divisive," he said. "It caused some in our student body to become very upset with her. They lost faith in her ability to represent them because they felt that she did not understand or respect the struggles in their lives.”
Rohini also submitted to a three-day cultural sensitivity workshop, according to The Washington Post.
And of course, there was the apology stage. Rohini once again took to Facebook to make amends with the offended students. Though she didn't agree with the sanctions leveled against her, she agreed to do better to "understand the controversy [she] caused" in the future.
The student population at the University of Houston is only 10% black, yet they've proved to be a powerful voice in this social justice climate.
Black student union president Kadidja Koné, 19, said of Rohini, "I would never want her to have to experience the fear I have every day that my brother could die during a traffic stop, but it is something that as a representative of me that I expect her to understand. For her to say on her social media ‘forget black lives matter,’ it’s almost as if to say if all of us were to die tomorrow, she wouldn’t care.”
Another group on campus, 100 Collegiate Men, stated, "As of today, African American students do not feel welcome, comfortable, represented, valued or even acknowledged at the University of Houston. Students at the University of Houston want to feel adequately represented. They do not feel that this is being accomplished as long as Rohini Sethi is in office.”
Something else not welcome or valued at the University of Houston is diversity of thoughts and ideas.
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