As students at Michigan’s Calvin College headed to class on Monday, they were greeted by inches of newly fallen snow—and “white power” messages scratched into the fresh powder.
Calvin College President Michael K. Le Roy condemned the “hateful” messages on social media early Monday.
“This morning we woke up to hateful, racialized and profane statements that were written in the snow on several cars on campus,” Le Roy wrote on Facebook. “Hateful acts such as these violate the image of God in all people, exhibit the sin and brokenness we experience in human community and have no place at Calvin College.”
This morning we woke up to profane and racist statements written on some cars. This has no place at Calvin College. https://t.co/9bDYN2F9ir
— Michael Le Roy (@MKLeRoy) November 23, 2015
Le Roy pledged to conduct a thorough investigation on the Grand Rapids campus. He said he would provide the community with further information about the incident after meeting with other school administrators.
James Li, a student at the small Christian college, shared a photo that was purportedly taken last night outside the Kalsbeek-Huizenga-Van Reken residence hall. The image shows the words “White Power” and a Swastika traced onto a car hood.
Similar racially-charged incidents have raised tensions on other campuses across the country in recent weeks, including Harvard University, the University of Missouri and Yale University.
It’s always a mob of hundreds…against the one person being lynched
It’s always a group of racists…against one or two people
And it’s ALWAYS someone writing something hateful with no one looking
I think they meant to write in ‘white powder’.
but but but Dr. King had a dream, and Barack O-postracial, and millennials are less racist than their grandparents…and ah never-mind, forget that. It’s time to celebrate the peaceful and mutually beneficial encounter between the benevolent Spaniards that discovered a group people that were already here.
The rhetoric of Trump has enabled this. He may very well be the most dangerous man in America; I fear one Donald Trump more than 10,000 Syrian refugees.
I fear one Trump more than I fear Daesh.