The self-described “woke” outgoing chair of the University Wisconsin-Madison’s student council felt the need to leave her position “honestly,” so she sent out an open letter on Monday to the entire campus community urging minority students and parents to “rethink” being affiliated with the university because the institution “does not care about people of color.” But it isn’t just the university that’s racist, her letter announces, it’s “all white people.”
The former student leader, Carmen Goséy, explains in the letter (full text below) that while at first she was optimistic about all the “diversity and inclusion” changes she could implement as the Madison Student Association chair, the reality of the university’s institutionalized racism and racist campus culture destroyed any such sense of hope.
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