Students of color at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are speaking out about being excluded from a video touting a diverse student body.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has issued an apology after its homecoming committee touted the diversity of the student body in a video featuring almost exclusively white students on campus.
“Someone within the homecoming committee sent an email to our president, and they just asked us to send in a few words of what we think ‘home’ is when we think of UW,” Wade says, before explaining that she and her sorority sisters dedicated over an hour of their time to film for the project. “They just told us that we would be in the larger video and they would let us know once everything’s done and send us the footage.
— 👑 Payton 👑 September 30, 2019 Here is the video the @UWMadison homecoming committee posted pic.twitter.com/5rSbf4wgE9 A 2015 graduate, Anthony Wright — who also posted about the video on Twitter — tells Yahoo Lifestyle that he’s in disbelief to see the problems he faced years ago persisting. “Marginalized students are still fighting to have their UW experience included in the story of the university,” Wright says. “The fact that the university gave this group the chance to be a part of this story and chose to not feature it for whatever reason, is counter to the diverse and inclusive narrative it pushes.
“We know that, both historically and today, students of color and other under-represented groups do not feel as welcome on our campus as majority students. As a community, we must commit to and invest in ways to change this. One important way is to ensure active participation and authentic involvement by Badgers of many different identities in all aspects of campus life.
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