Columbia Students Say They’re Scared Of a Mean Thomas Jefferson Statue
A vocal contingent of students at Columbia University now say they’re mad over a statue of Thomas Jefferson located on campus, claiming the effigy exposes how “Black students are merely tokens of the university.”
And this quote from the Mobilized African Diaspora (MAD):
MAD goes on to accuse the administration of failing to uphold “its promise to protect Black and Brown bodies,” arguing that while Jefferson “may represent freedom for the white elites of his time,” the statue “[embodies] the same threat that the KKK poses” for non-white students.