I want to spread awareness about a terrible incident at UC San Diego.
My cousin, Mustafa Shahryar, who goes to school there called me to tell me that as he was leaving the library, he heard a grown African-American man crying on the phone asking “how can I study if they want to kill me?”
My cousin asked him what was wrong and the guy took him to the 7th floor of the main library and hanging from the ceiling was A NOOSE.
Not a silly little string, but a full-on rope capable of carrying the weight of a human body.
And sitting a few feet away from it was a White male, studying, acting as if he hadn’t noticed anything odd about his surroundings.
Even worse, apparently this noose has been hanging from the ceiling of the 7th floor of the library SINCE YESTERDAY. And nobody did anything about it. Nobody called the authorities, nor did they even bother to take it down.
We need to let everyone know about the heinous incidents that have taken place at UC San Diego these past few weeks.
We must stand in solidarity and stamp out any racism, as they are not welcome on my campus, nor should they be at my sister campus as well.
Salomon Hossein