I Found Racism In A Country That’s 98% Black

Take, for example, the recent incident at the University of Pennsylvania (Trump’s alma mater), when Black freshman students were added to a group chat complete with a calendar of “daily lynchings” and a photo of Black people hanging from a tree. When I decided to study abroad in Ghana, I was offic...

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Published inBlack enterprise
Main Author Black Enterprise
Format Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Earl G. Graves Publishing Company, Inc 05.02.2017
Subjects
Black people
Oppression
Race
Racism
Students
Study abroad
White supremacy
United States > US
Africa
Ghana
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Summary:Take, for example, the recent incident at the University of Pennsylvania (Trump’s alma mater), when Black freshman students were added to a group chat complete with a calendar of “daily lynchings” and a photo of Black people hanging from a tree. When I decided to study abroad in Ghana, I was officially setting off to research the effects of the transatlantic slave trade on the local community and to compare the current social and economic differences between Ghana and the United States. [...]I received a letter from the University of Ghana demanding that I apologize to the woman and her boyfriend for my actions (in my anger, I had dumped a garbage can in the woman’s room and used some derogatory terms of my own) despite the fact that neither party had apologized to me.
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ISSN:2691-5510