I hate to say this, but is there a possibility that the perpetrator is in fact a member of one of the targeted racial groups? Sadly enough, this sort of thing has happened before.

I am actually a student at River Falls, and regardless of who did it, there have been problems with this before. Last year in the Agricultural Building there was racial graffiti on one of the bulletin boards. I’m glad to see them finally organize something and do something about it, unfortunately I was not able to be there when it happened.

I like how hypocritical the campus is. They talk all about unity and such, but then they still have blatant separation through the, most likely, university sponsored “Black Student Union and Asian Student Union”. Where’s the Caucasian student union? Not that I have anything against diversity, but these organizations seem so counterproductive.

I love how it is assumed that this is a ‘threat’- typical reaction of old, white, administrator types- who respond w/diversity marches. My first instinct on reading this was that there was some african-american/asian-american group party or something on campus. Try inserting sig-eps for ‘blacks’, and tri-delts for ‘asians’. BTW, for those of you who don’t interact with them, african-americans do sometimes refer to themselves as ‘black’ and asian-americans as ‘asian’.

Maybe this WAS a horrible racist threat from some white dude. The wording makes me doubt it; to me, it makes much more sense as a pro-black/asian statement than anti. Fortunately, we have the UWRF chancellor to interpret it for us- cowardly racist graffiti. Requiring extra security precautions and surveillance. And necessitating meetings of the black and asian student unions with the chancellor.

In a sense, the black and asian students remain victims, unfortunately- they have to attend meetings to listen to this joker tell them how upset and threatened they should feel, rather than studying, or partying, or just NOT sitting in some administrator’s office for an hour. Plus, I guarantee these student groups were strongly encouraged to attend these lectures, rallies, etc etc etc, so the administration can prove just how unified the campus is.

Moral of the story: minority groups should NOT advertise parties, get-togethers, etc in any way that can be misinterpreted by old, white, bored administration-type people. Wait, who were the racists here, exactly?

“Caucasion student union”…?

Are you serious? I think you would be hard pressed to find such a group in any University.

White man always keeps a brotha down.

Umm, why is this a big deal? There is racist graffiti in half the bathrooms in University buildings here too. Is it really shocking to find there are expressive racists out there? Yeesh.

“The time of destruction is near. Blacks + Asians 11-02-09”

Oh my god, would you look at the above sentence? Looks like another “hate crime.” First of all, what does it even mean?

Second, if the words were:

“The time of destruction is near. Caucasians 11-02-09”

you wouldn’t be reading about it in the paper.

Third, the only crime committed was destruction of property.

I am a UWRF alum, and there are a few things that many of you are missing:

1) For those of you who make the point that there are no Caucasian student unions and that this would not make headlines if Black + Asian was replaced with Caucasians, your point (assuming it were truth - which I do not) proves nothing other than that you have either not taken or done quite poorly in History and Sociology. Anyone who knows anything about Sociology and Student Development Theory knows why these organizations are essential, and your reasoning about modern equality is sophmoric.

2) The reason that this is an issue pertains to another fairly recent specific threat graffiti within that same campus community. It is crazy that there are people who look at these incidents and find the reaction overblown.