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Campus newspaper editorial: ‘Your [white] DNA is an abomination’
A new opinion piece in a Texas State University student newspaper tells white students, “Your DNA is an Abomination.”
“When I think of all the white people I have ever encountered – whether they’ve been professors, peers, lovers, friend, police officers, et cetera – there is perhaps only a dozen I would consider ‘decent,’” student author Rudy Martinez writes in the University Star.
Without much biological explanation, Martinez informs white readers, “You were not born white. You became white… You don’t give a damn.” Later in his rant, he calls the police “fascist foot soldiers” and says a “white supremacist inhabits the White House.”
The editorial also suggests that “whiteness in the United States” is a “construct used to perpetuate a system of racist power.”