"It has to start from us — we have to reach out across racial boundaries and make friends with each other." #UMassDiversity
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"I want to see my brothers, sisters, and non-binary siblings working to create a queer affirmative community." #UMassDiversity
"While we're taking about changing symbols, can we talk about changing the mascot? It's a white guy with a gun." #UMassDiversity
"It's not a town-meeting on 'diversity' — it needs to be about anti-racism. We need to call it what it is." #UMassDiversity
"What's the training and professional development for faculty members regarding diversity in their curriculum & pedagogy?" #UMassDiversity
is disappointed that those at mics want the spotlight rather than for everyone in the room to speak, if only in small group. #umassdiversity
"The solution has to be more than hiring more administrators." #UMassDiversity
"It's not just about bringing more underrepresented students here, but doing something about the environment here now." #umassdiversity
"We need to label anti-black institutional racism & politics of respectability. People of color are not represented here." #umassdiversity
"It's being communicated as a student-on-student problem, but I invite us all to view it from an institutional perspective." #umassdiversity
"Our indigenous community has fractured because it has been approached in a top-down way." #umassdiversity