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Open letter of support for the Black Student Union at IU-Bloomington

Tuesday, Dec. 9,2014 8:53 p.m.

We stand with the people around the country calling for justice and racial equality in American society. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel once said, “the opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.” He said this to wake up the masses during the Civil Rights Movement to bring people to their feet and combat racial inequality.

'We can't breathe'

By Editorial Board · Tuesday, Dec. 9,2014 8:49 p.m.

Last Friday, Indiana University joined the national movement in protesting against the grand jury’s ruling to not indict white police officer Darren Wilson for the death of Michael Brown, an African-American teenager. The rally demonstrates the student body standing in solidarity with the protestors in Ferguson, signaling that IU students too, believe an injustice was carried out at the expense of a life. Although the possibility of a criminal case against Wilson is no longer an option, http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/13/us/ferguson-missouri-town-under-siege-after-police-shooting.html the death of Brown has resulted in the nation taking a hard, but ultimately positive introspective look at what exactly lines the fabric of American society today. In the wake of Brown’s death, police brutality has risen to the national limelight.