Responding to racist neo-Nazi flyers that were placed around Boston University’s campus this week, students held a protest Wednesday during which they changed phrases like, “Racist, sexist, anti-gay, Nazi supporters go away.”
According to Metro, these heinous flyers included phrases like “The Nazis are coming!” and “Black Lives Don’t Matter!” The posters are currently being investigated by the school’s police.
Upon seeing the racist propaganda on her school’s campus, Marlo Kalb created a Facebook event for a protest which quickly gained attention. According to The Daily Free Press, she was able to prompt over 50 people to join her in the rally, despite the rainy weather.
In addition to the use of signs and chanting, the protest included rounds of moving speeches that spoke out about the unacceptable nature of the posters.
“BU has a history as a politically active campus, especially during the Civil Rights Movement and on the issue of Apartheid,” Kalb told The Daily Free Press. “The protest aimed to show racists and anti-Semitic groups that BU is still a place where students can fight back.”
Co-organizer of the protest, Negin Taleb, said in her speech, “This protest is about calling on students, faculty and administration to come together in solidarity with all oppressed groups who are subject to racism from white supremacists and neo-Nazis.”
It is clear that these students and the other protesters see this incident as a gateway for more racist and hateful acts to occur on campus and that they are determined to hinder any possibility of its continuation.
Directly after the incident occurred, BU President, Robert Brown, sent out an email explaining that the school’s police department is conducting an investigation and that if those behind the posters are BU-Affiliated members, the university will “take proper actions.”