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Re: Knox women's basketball event

From:trustees-user@knox.edu To: blews@sbcglobal.net CC: tamott@knox.edu, trustees@knox.edu Date: 2014-12-03 10:39 Subject: Re: Knox women's basketball event

You can google on 'Knox College Women's Basketball' and find several newspaper articles, video of the protest, and feedback from interested parties. As you can imagine, there appears to be a wide range of views on the protest. Gary Jacobson Mobile-317-410-6387 Sent from my I Phone > On Dec 3, 2014, at 01:02, Susan Blew <blews@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > Teresa – > > Thank you for the update that you provided to us, the trustees, giving the facts surrounding the incident with the Knox basketball player and the subsequent actions taken. I appreciate your assessment of the campus sentiment and planned activities. I am satisfied with the approach that you, the coaches, and the Dean have taken, and I trust, as our “boots on the ground”, you have a much better sense of how a sensitive situation like this one should be handled. I am grateful that the Knox faculty, administration, and staff take such care to include the viewpoints and opinions of the various campus constituents before taking action. > > Watching my own backyard - the site of marching, protests, and disruption - this particular case seems to have been the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back. While I have my own opinions on what happened in Ferguson, MO, I cannot imagine the feelings of a young African American woman student basketball player. I only know what happened to the outstanding black students I hired for the leadership development program at Wells Fargo; how they were followed around stores by security guards and how their vehicles were pulled over for no apparent reason, how they were pulled from their cars and made to put their hands on the hood while their bodies and cars were searched. Mostly they dealt with these situations with humor, but all were humiliated and felt the injustice. It didn’t happen to the white students. > > I’m sorry for the racism that still exists in our country and the need for students and others to protest the unjust actions that take place as a result of it. I am glad that you can use these situations to educate Knox students about racism, to provide a safe environment for discourse and the sharing of opinions and experiences. I’m proud that we can provide such a place for our young people and wish that it could be so throughout America. Then, truly, the life and tragic death of Michael Brown would not be in vain. > > I ask that you continue to keep us apprised of the situation at Knox – particularly with regard to the media - including social media – and when students return for Winter Term. Again, thank you. > > Sue > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to trustees-user+unsubscribe@knox.edu.