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RACIST: Pitzer College Students Just Told White Girls To Stop Wearing Hoop Earrings

Elliott Hamilton
RACIST: Pitzer College Students Just Told White Girls To Stop Wearing Hoop Earrings

If Scripps College is the most racist college in the United States, then its neighbor Pitzer College comes in a close second. After a few of its students refused to room with their white peers earlier in the school year, a new controversy arose when anonymous students spray-painted the following on the free wall at Mead Hall: “White Girl, take off your hoops!!!”

When a student emailed the whole student body about what this meant, Alegria Martinez, a Pitzer College Resident Assistant (RA) and a member of the Latinx Student Union, wrote the following:

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