Readers have may noticed the slow-down of posts this week. Finals are tough and news is slow – this week is a brief hiatus where blogging will be at a minimum.
This month also marks the the two-year anniversary of Cornell Insider! The Insider has come a long way since our first post – a book review – on December 1st. In those two years Cornell Review writers have blogged at the Insider about all kinds of campus events, national news, and opinion commentary. Insider has received the attention of over 300,000 unique viewers since we first began intermittent posts in 2008, and the rate of new viewers continues to increase. We’d like to give a hearty thank you to all the dedicated readers who have propelled our stories onto places like the Huffington Post, RealClearPolitics, FOXNation, The Hill, and IvyGate. We’ve even developed a strong relationship with another publication, The Daily Stun, by feeding them stories to sustain healthy competition. ‘Daily Stun’ has been mentioned over 30 times, all on purpose. We’ve written more than 660 posts as a team. Nearly a 1000 posts have been made in the comments section.
We’re grateful to the people who return to The Insider to stay abreast of Cornellian news, contribute to articles, and call us out when when needed (very rarely). In the past two years we’ve brought you the breaking news on Cornell’s protests, frat boys, financial hiccups (correctly), messy lawns, suicides, outbursts, and shootings.
To keep you occupied the next few days, enjoy this link to the recent Africana protest videos. A lot of our readers couldn’t believe our quotes from the event were accurate. See for yourself. The video is in 7 parts but the one below is one of the most… interesting. Beat drop at 1:56 – “we’re not going to be forced to go into buildings that have pictures of people that do not look like me, or you, or you and don’t care about me or you, or you.”
This video is upsetting. Not because of what the young woman says but how the quote was both misinterpreted and misunderstood when originally quoted. When this quote was originally written on the blog all it said was “we’re not going to be forced to go into buildings that have pictures of people that do not look like me” in an attempt to make it seem as if these students would not attend classes that had white influences and were therefore racists. Anyone who is not attempting to find racism in the sense of minorities against whites could clearly see that this was not the intention of the young women. We will not be forced to go into a building (the arsc building) which was dedicated to placing care to the knowledge of african american culture with pictures of people (such as the ones that are so often hung in other sociology buildings) who do not support the original intention of the building. This notion is completely understandable. Would you enter a building dedicated to your heritage that is filled with shrines and pictures dedicated to men and women who have nothing to do with your cause, taking over space and distracting people from the original purpose of the building?