November 25, 2015
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A message against hate at Lewis and Clark College during a rally against racism is captured by
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Solidarity against Hate
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Student attack,
racist posts
roil campus
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Students, professors, and
staff at Lewis & Clark College
are trying to come together to
protect their community after a
black student was attacked over
the weekend in what appears to
be a racially motivated crime.
The incident followed a series of
racist posts on college message
boards.
By Tuesday, dozens of stu-
dents of all backgrounds had
begun occupying the college’s
administration building to de-
mand change, urging the campus
to make the campus less hostile
to international and multicultur-
al students. As of Tuesday after-
noon student activists were still
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there and said they had no plan
on leaving anytime soon.
A Rwandan student at the south-
west Portland campus says he was
walking home from an evening
workout at the school gym Friday
night around midnight when three
white men physically attacked
him. Tanguy Muvana, 26, said
they used slurs and called him the
N-word, before holding him down
and telling him “You are going to
die tonight.”
Muvana struggled to break
free and says he reached out to
police but declined to go to the
hospital. He contested a Portland
Police press release released
saying that the attack occurred
around 9 p.m.
He urged people to under-
stand he had no ill-will towards
anyone, regardless of what had
happened to him, but said the
police report had made it seem
like he had delayed making a
report for several hours when he
says he had reported the crime
right after it had happened.
Muvana, whose face was
swollen, is the latest victim in
a string of escalating racial ten-
sions on campuses across the
country. Student protests have
been sparked in recent weeks in
solidarity with the demonstra-
tions against racist incidents at
Missouri State University and
other colleges.
Threatening comments on
the anonymous college message
board, Yik Yak, popped up in
Lewis & Clark online communi-
ties last week and in dozens of
other college’s forums.
Muvana said he wants his as-
sailants to be held responsible
for what they did, but he won’t
let the attack alter how he feels
about the campus as a whole.
“I don’t have time to hate peo-
ple,” he said.
Leaflets Spark Anti Klan Protests
Racial justice activists are
stepping up their visibility the
wake of recent Ku Klux Klan
recruitment flyers distributed on
the streets of Gresham and other
Oregon towns.
On Saturday, the group Show-
ing Up For Racial Justice staged
a rally at the Lents Farmers Mar-
ket in southeast Portland. Simi-
lar protests took place in suburbs
like West Linn, where another
group staged a demonstration
outside of the local high school
calling for an end to the Klan in
Oregon.
Marchers say they are hop-
ing to send a message that
white supremacists are not
welcome in their neighbor-
hoods, “I don’t want them tar-
geting our towns and capitaliz-
ing on the ignorance or poverty
of these neighborhoods,” said
Alex Cohen, one of the orga-
nizers. “We need to let people
of color know they are wel-
come here and that other white
people don’t agree with the
Klan or its politics.”