2008 Woodie Awards
We are EIU
Kevin Kenealy/Pounce Editor
Issue date: 12/7/07 Section: Multimedia
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After attending a racism forum this past February and experiencing the pain that so many of my fellow students are apart of in world that's 63 years after Brown vs. Board, I was appalled and ready to take some kind of action.
Fifteen some students took to an open mic while 500 some packed the Seventh Street Underground in the Martin Luther King Jr. Union.
"I remember a man on the balcony on the top floor on the third or fourth apartment started yelling, F U nigger! Go home nigger! And just a lot of different things with the N word." - These were the words of sophomore Keith Wise.
One student that took the mic said when he rode the shuttle bus when three black passengers got off the bus, the driver said, "They're lucky they can even take the bus."
What kind of world do we live in? Why do we place so much emphasis in color? Almost angered that following the forum so little was said or done, I took it upon myself to lead a racism project.
This was inspired again after taking social problems during the summer and learning about all the inequality are world is in, the problems we face and sort of brush under the rug.
We can't have a few words at a forum and let it be it. We have to keep the talk up. It's the only way we'll come to grips with each other, hopefully.
The purpose of this project is not for my gain, but for the gain of others. Share your story. Help stop the spread of racism today.
-Kevin Kenealy
Human being and Journalist
After attending a racism forum this past February and experiencing the pain that so many of my fellow students are apart of in world that's 63 years after Brown vs. Board, I was appalled and ready to take some kind of action.
Fifteen some students took to an open mic while 500 some packed the Seventh Street Underground in the Martin Luther King Jr. Union.
"I remember a man on the balcony on the top floor on the third or fourth apartment started yelling, F U nigger! Go home nigger! And just a lot of different things with the N word." - These were the words of sophomore Keith Wise.
One student that took the mic said when he rode the shuttle bus when three black passengers got off the bus, the driver said, "They're lucky they can even take the bus."
What kind of world do we live in? Why do we place so much emphasis in color? Almost angered that following the forum so little was said or done, I took it upon myself to lead a racism project.
This was inspired again after taking social problems during the summer and learning about all the inequality are world is in, the problems we face and sort of brush under the rug.
We can't have a few words at a forum and let it be it. We have to keep the talk up. It's the only way we'll come to grips with each other, hopefully.
The purpose of this project is not for my gain, but for the gain of others. Share your story. Help stop the spread of racism today.
-Kevin Kenealy
Human being and Journalist
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