Red

No lyrics today.

Red represents the blood on the ground of a Colby student assaulted by security in a blatant display of excessive force to control. It says that the blood have been stained on hands and racism still runs in the veins of so many people. Whether they mean it or not, it's there and it spews. People are ignorant to it.

There was an incident this weekend involving students, security, and police. One in a string of many which I've brushed off as the specific "unfortunate" actions of few.... but where the HELL are these kids coming from? When security is using excessive force against... you guessed it... men of color and we have it on tape, when women of color are being completely disrespected, when the school sends out a biased- overall disgusting account of what happened- when the administration has done jackshit-- you as a privileged ass white kid.... will sit there and try give the administration the benefit of the doubt........ AGAIN?! These kids are so smart, and most of them ARE caring-- but take off the goddamn blinders. Every single kid on that stage affected by the incident was of color. The entire news staff who was there besides me is white. As a paper, we need to speak up on behalf of our students, to make them feel like they're heard-- and get out of the bubble that wants to believe that the administration is well-intentioned. Even if they are, they're still wrong, the ways they treated these kids was utterly, shamefully disgusting- the way students of color get treated on this campus in general- the way incident after incident keeps occuring.

The student paper ought to take a step back from it's unimportant theory of "objectivity".... as though that even exists, and understand that if students don't stick up for one another--- if you Mr. Editor, continue on your cloud of oblivion, shit like this will keep happening. Yes, security or police may get a bad wrap for this shit, but they deserve it. Students make this campus our home-- we ought to feel safe AND accepted here. Anything less, and especially this brutality is unacceptable. Instead of running away from the problem, or trying to understand the administration's side-- or the reason why they act the way they do, how about we try to understand from the side of the students clearly being overpowered by security laying in a mess of his own blood?

So tomorrow, red is the color.