Letter to the Editor
(02/04/16 7:58am)
Dear Max and Wills,
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Dear Max and Wills,
Sinking deeper and deeper into the perils of unproductivity, I pen this letter. I have not done much homework since Tuesday afternoon, when I received an obscure, four-line email telling of a “community conversation” in which members of the Duke collective would have an opportunity to “reflect on our aspirations as a community.” The e-mail, which came the day after the President of the University of Missouri’s resignation amid racial tensions on that college campus, also declared that this “community conversation” was to be held on Friday at noon, when most Duke students would be in class. In the days leading up to the community conversation, as I do most days, I spent hours on end reflecting on my experiences as a black student at Duke, talking to other students about how they had experienced Duke’s social and political culture from the perspective of marginal identity and imagining the kind of tangible and intangible changes that are necessary to change Duke for the better.