After author Jennine Capó Crucet gave a lecture about diversity at Georgia Southern University, followed by a tense Q&A that brought up white privilege, a group of students gathered to burn her book.
On Wednesday night, New York Times contributor and associate professor at the University of Nebraska, Jennine Capó Crucet, spoke about her novel Make Your Home Among Strangers to first-year students at Georgia Southern University .
“I came here because I was invited and I talked about white privilege because it’s a real thing that you are actually benefiting from right now in even asking this question,” Crucet said in response, according to the paper. “What’s so heartbreaking for me and what is so difficult in this moment right now is to literally have read a talk about this exact moment happening and it’s happening again. That is why a different experience, the white experience, is centered in this talk.
In since-deleted tweets, captured in screenshots and published in the George-Anne, students who attended the lecture tweeted Crucet photos of her book with torn-out pages and accused her of being “racist” towards white people. The paper also shared one student’s tweet, which showed a video of other students burning the book.
so after our FYE book’s author came to my school to talk about it... these people decide to burn her book because “it’s bad and that race is bad to talk about”. white people need to realize that they are the problem and that their privilege is toxic. author is a woman of color. pic.twitter.com/HiX4lGT7Ci
"While it’s within the students’ First Amendment rights, book burning does not align with Georgia Southern’s values nor does it encourage the civil discourse and debate of ideas," Jennifer Wise, director of communications for GSU, said in a statement to Yahoo Lifestyle. — maya October 10, 2019 @crucet thank you for making that distinction! As a Black Latina and as the mother of one of those brilliant students, I hope you return to Georgia Southern. Obviously, some didn't like what they saw when the mirror was held up.
— Daniel Coursey October 11, 2019 As an alumnx, I am completely appalled by this behavior. Please don't think this behavior represents the whole university. I'm so sorry this has been your experience of GSU. What you write is so important, and some people are just scared to hear the truth. — Amanda Konkle October 11, 2019 "As a department, we believe literature has the power to transform our world," read the department of literature's official statement in a Facebook post."The stories we tell and how we tell them shape our worldviews. Last night’s display of hate and bigotry are values that we as a department reject. We stand in solidarity with Jennine Capó Crucet.
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