The May 4th incident involving the police harassing minority students after a call was made in regards to a noise complaint hits close to home because it’s my story. I was there that night and I witnessed the devastation on all my peer’s faces as we were victimized for having committed absolutely no crime. Jayson Sneed, a good friend of mine, made very important points the night of the forum. He pointed out that the reason this story was even being heard was because we were USC students and as a private institution, our school functions like a business- meaning headlines like this would be bad for profit. So what if we weren’t USC students. Who would hear us? The answer is no one because even as USC students we are subject to routine discrimination and prejudices without anyone saying about it. When my good friend Rini Sampath and Jordan Farmer decided to run as the next USG president and vice president I was overcome with joy. It would be the first time we had two females, two diverse females I must add, in office. My joy was quickly turned into shock as I watched the racist comments appear on USC’s Yik Yak app. From associating Rini with the Taliban to calling Jordan the n word, the posts were pouring in by USC students. The truth of the matter is, I think USC is an accurate depiction of the real world. Its predominately white, just like the top one percent of this country, and it functions basically on a system where the rich help their “own” get richer and the poor struggle to be heard. In the real world, most cases about discrimination of black men don’t matter because those in power of media outlets don’t care. Why? Because it’s not their story. We need more people in positions of power who are diverse because they will care about these issues. As long as we have police who have no connection to the people they are so called “protecting” or people in positions of power, our reality will be nothing but a broken record.
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