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Department of English Statement on Black Lives Matter
The coronavirus pandemic and mounting economic distress disproportionately affect the health, well-being, and life of people of color. The racist, systemic mistreatment of black and brown people by police departments across our country appallingly compounds their distress. We unequivocally support and stand with those who have taken to the streets to protest the murders of George Floyd and Philando Castile in Minneapolis, the murders of Kendra James, Sean Bell, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Manuel Loggins, Jr., Walter Scott, Alton Sterling, Breonna Taylor, and too many others to name. Black Lives Matter. We extend our deepest sympathy to their families and friends. These deaths are an immediate and irretrievable loss of body and soul; their cause a disease that threatens and diminishes us all. As academics and writers we must make black lives matter through our commitment to diversity in our hiring and admissions practices, in our efforts to create inclusive and safe classrooms, where we teach the creative work and history of people of color. In these ways we commit to fighting racism in our lives and in our work by advancing the values, principles, and actions to which this nation, at least by its words, commits.
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