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During the Fall 2020 term, a protest was held outside of [[Raub-Sellew]] for 2 days, which resulted in one student being suspended. | During the Fall 2020 term, a protest was held outside of [[Raub-Sellew]] for 2 days, which resulted in one student being suspended. | ||
− | ==Timeline== | + | ===Timeline== |
− | + | ==Monday September 28th== | |
− | First year | + | First year at the time and objective cool person [[Abigail King]] was not happy with the actions of some other first year students living on the first floor of Raub Sellew. As it was an election year, many conservative students had Trump 2020 flags posted in their windows facing the courtyard. King was not happy with this decision, and took it upon herself to buy small pride flags and stick them in the ground outside underneath their windows. She placed the first one at 4pm, went to dinner, and noticed it had disappeared when she returned. She then placed a second flag under a different window at 6:45 and left to go to CTL tutoring. When she returned around 8pm, the flag had been noticeably kicked over, so she replaced it and had a friend take a photo (which I will post here as soon as I can figure out how to add a photo to a wiki page). After having taken the photo, King and her friends noticed a small group of boys curse them out and steal the flag. They got the entire event on video, and sent it to admin. |
− | + | ==Tuesday September 29th== | |
− | A bunch of students talked about how they had noticed the flags, and wished to annoy those who stole the flags, and so grabbed chalk and wrote many wholesome messages on the concrete in the courtyard. These included statements such as "Love is Love", "Donkey Kong says Trans Rights", "Black Lives Matter," and the controversial "Only D3?" which was a reference to how Raub | + | A bunch of students talked about how they had noticed the flags, and wished to annoy those who stole the flags, and so grabbed chalk and wrote many wholesome messages on the concrete in the courtyard. These included statements such as "Love is Love", "Donkey Kong says Trans Rights", "Black Lives Matter," and the controversial "Only D3?" which was a reference to how Raub Sellew is full of athletes, and how Knox is a Division 3 school, as these athletes were not good enough to get into a school with a higher division. Many students who lived in the dorms tried to erase the chalk by stepping on it or trying to wash it away with water. Many who lived in 5-name placed post it notes in the windows of their suites which read along the lines of "Love is Love", or "Love has no gender". |
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− | + | ==Wednesday September 30th== | |
− | A silent sit in was organized outside of the dorms, and about ~33 students came. Protests organized by objectively cool students of color 3rd year [[Monica Cardoza]] and 2nd years [[Manny Pina]] and [[Isaiah Simon]] (Who I believe literally deserve all of the credit) They held 15 minutes of silence which opened the door for other students to speak on what the Trump flags meant to them, continued all afternoon and into the night, where students played music, flew the flag of Mexico and a pride flag, and | + | A silent sit in was organized outside of the dorms, and about ~33 students came. Protests organized by objectively cool students of color 3rd year [[Monica Cardoza]] and 2nd years [[Manny Pina]] and [[Isaiah Simon]] (Who I believe literally deserve all of the credit) They held 15 minutes of silence which opened the door for other students to speak on what the Trump flags meant to them, continued all afternoon and into the night, where students played music, flew the flag of Mexico and a pride flag, and had a great time. This was an especially important protest, as it was the night of one of the presidential debates. At this point, the student in the video who had stolen the pride flag was identified, and rightfully suspended for theft. Alumni Brianna Goodwin and President of [[ABLE]] Myla Boyd sent demands to admin that will be posted down below. |
− | == | + | ==October 1st Thursday== |
− | King's friends pressured her to do a police report as her property was technically stolen. She filed one, but never heard back anything from | + | King's friends pressured her to do a police report as her property was technically stolen. She filed one, but never heard back anything from Campus Safety or the Galesburg Police. |
− | + | ==Aftermath== | |
− | + | An article in The Knox Student was released, an email sent out by [[Teresa Amott]], and Knox (hopefully) strived to meet the listed demands that send in by students of color. | |
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===Listed Student Demands=== | ===Listed Student Demands=== | ||
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processes.” | processes.” | ||
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− | + | Source: Literally King herself wrote this and the TKS article had all the information for to rightfully credit the students of color who literally did everything. | |
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[[Category: Protests]] [[Category: Events]] | [[Category: Protests]] [[Category: Events]] | ||
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