Warren Wilson College must prioritize the safety of past, present, and future Black community members who have experienced great depths of trauma, current and generational. We have witnessed a great inability by many faculty and staff to address race in their curriculums, on work crews, and during facilitated discussions about race. Students of color are consistently subjected to microaggressions and tokenization from both teachers and peers alike. When students subject their Black peers to inappropriate comments, threats, and insults, and those who hold positions of authority are unable to support Black students or educate the white ones, it leaves Black students to fend for themselves.

Additionally, the shameful lack of diversity in faculty and staff employment leaves Black students without mentors they can turn to for effective support, often leaving trauma, and retraumatization, ineffectively addressed, or wholly unaddressed. These patterns leave Wilson with the responsibility, as an educational institution, to uplift Black voices within DEI work in our community and educate our white community members. This is a great opportunity and time to lean in and allow Black and Brown voices to be amplified.

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