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On Sunday night, a large, red, swastika was painted over a mural commemorating the lives lost in the Tree of Life shooting. While this event is horrific, it is not surprising. Since the mural went up, I have been holding my breath, waiting.
In an email to the Duke community the morning after a swastika was found on the East Campus bridge, President Vincent Price pledged extra security and a security camera to be installed at the bridge.
By 1 a.m. Monday morning, the swastika had been covered up by a trash bag.
It was 2 a.m. Monday morning and first-year Olivia Levine was still awake, hours after she had learned about the swastika from her friends.
Last Thursday, following two weeks of racist and anti-Semitic deadly shootings in the news cycle, Duke students woke up to news of “It’s ok to be white” flyers littered around East Campus and a pumpkin with a swastika. However, last week isn’t the first time this year these student groups have been targeted. In May, anti-Semitic flyers were sighted around East Campus and earlier this semester, a racist slur was scrawled on a wall in front of The Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture. These incidents are exemplary additions to a long genealogy of banal yet threatening acts of anti-blackness and anti-Semitism that are used to terrorize Black and Jewish people in daily life.
The "It's okay to be white" flyers that were reported Thursday morning to have been found on Duke's campus were not the only ones discovered at schools.
Two racially charged incidents were reported on East Campus overnight, wrote L.B. Bergene, associate dean of East Campus, in an email to residence coordinators on East Thursday morning.
On the morning of Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018, during a morning Shabbat service in Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue, a middle-aged man armed with an AR-15 and three handguns fired upon a group of congregants in the deadliest attack against the Jewish community in American history. In total, 11 individuals—eight men and three women—lost their lives, while many others were wounded. The gut-wrenching attack has shocked the nation and the international community, with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, himself a former resident of Philadelphia, expressing his condolences on Twitter. Likewise, Trump sent a series of tweets in which he decried the events at Pittsburgh as “an assault on humanity,” and later noted that an armed security most likely would have prevented the attack. President Vincent Price sent out a mass email to all members of the Duke community encouraging people to find strength in unity against anti-Semitic acts.
In cinematic depictions, news broadcasting and a myriad of other forms of media, the South has typically been othered and pathologized by the rest of the United States as backwards and plagued by a monolithic culture of racialized violence. The images of Black student protestors being hosed and chased down by police dogs in 1960s Birmingham, Alabama or Oxford, Mississippi on national television have contributed to cementing this depiction into the national conscience. Yet, the race riots that broke out in Northern and Western segregated cities such as Detroit, Newark and Los Angeles during the same time period have been conveniently ignored in these geographical comparisons. Even now, the racist disenfranchisement that was endured by many in the supposedly enlightened liberal bastion of the North well into the 1980s—through segregated country clubs and racist, exclusionist housing policies—continues to be forgotten. This ahistorical myth-making of the states below the Mason-Dixon Line as a the one, true home of white supremacy is fundamentally revisionist. These beliefs abstract the reality that all regions of this country—in its liberal ethos, institutions and public spaces—are indelibly implicated in the violent racism that has dispossessed Black populations, indigenous tribes and other people of color for centuries. The debilitating nature of racism has never been geographically confined, instead its various forms and implications have crisscrossed the expanse of this country in different manifestations for centuries.
A cowardly engraving of a swastika was found on the door of a bathroom stall in the Language building on Duke’s West Campus. Although this might seem inconsequential, this anti-Semitic drawing is in line with a global wave of anti-Semitism that has found its way on to many college campuses. In 2016, there were over 100 reported incidents of swastikas appearing on college campuses across the U.S.
Dorm and academic hall bathroom stalls are often graffitied with marker drawings or emblazoned with scratchy hearts.
Jewish individuals living under the Nazi regime during the Holocaust didn't just passively suffer—some resisted, a prominent Holocaust historian said during a talk Thursday.
Last Thursday, the Durham Public Schools Board voted unanimously to ban representation of the Confederate flag, Ku Klux Klan and Nazi swastika from its dress code.
Our neighbors in Charlottesville are still reeling from this past weekend’s events turned violent on University of Virginia’s campus. White supremacists and neo-Nazi groups came fully clad in battle armaments and fascist regalia to assert their “Unite the Right” message of the need for an ethno-state, and its aftermath has spawned heated debate over the prevalence of racism, historically racist monuments, and the current administration’s lack of a response to it all. The same day Heather Heyer was killed and several others injured by one of the supremacists in attendance, Donald Trump publicly condemned violence coming from “many sides”, careful not to call out the extremism that came decked out in Swastika gear.
Duke University’s Twitter account was hacked Tuesday night, posting an image with Nazi and pro-Turkish messages.
Donald J. Trump is now the President-elect of the United States after an election season that divided our country like no other. No matter your political persuasion, the reality stands that last Wednesday campus fell silent. The quiet halls of buildings, the muted sounds coming from main quad and the shuffling few in the West Union all reflected the shell-shock, fear and questioning uncertainty felt by our campus community.
Editor's note: Some readers may find the photographs included this article discomforting for their depiction of racial, homophobic and anti-semitic slurs. Please be advised.
"Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate, is dead at 87." It was a heartbreaking notification to read as I switched my phone on while the credits rolled in a dimly lit movie theatre. I walked out thinking less about the great white shark Blake Lively had outmaneuvered in “The Shallows” and more about the great soul who had just departed the world.
On Monday, we discussed our campus’ dire need for leadership to step up with helpful solutions or to enact the ones we offered. On Tuesday, we sought to have a conversation with regular students, answering the common question of “What can I do?” with the usual advice about sympathy and, tantamount to that, demands that they push administrators, academic leadership and DSG representatives to be visibly proactive in their roles.
