Faithfully waiting

Perhaps, as Stephen Miller suggested yesterday, the Lacrosse team incident was not the incident that protesters and community leaders should have cited to speak to larger ingrained prejudice at Duke University. Perhaps it just wasn't "the case."

But how long do we have to wait for "the case"? Before Rosa Park's bus incident, Claudette Colvin became the first person jailed for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person.

Her case was not the case that fired the civil rights movement, because she was a young unwed mother. Civil rights leaders needed "perfect" woman to make their "perfect case".

A student and mother may not have been raped that night at 610 Buchanan, but proof every Lacrosse player's innocence would not change the racism, sexism and classism embedded in Duke's culture.

Do I need to find a Rosa Parks to stand outside a frat house until racial epithets are thrown at her between sips of Natty Light? I guess I just have to keep waiting.

In the meantime, let a biology professor tell you in class that "you might want to reconsider taking his course because it requires a lot of memorization." Then wait while he tells a white male student that "He should be fine.

He looks like a smart guy." After that, listen while a white female student approaches your 5'6" ballet dancer frame to ask if you play basketball. Read an article in the Chronicle about how your SAT score must be lower than your roommate's because you're black. When you're finished, come talk to me about how a racist society is an article of my faith.

Danae Plattenburg