Students for a Democratic Society is hosting a teach-in on issues of diversity and racism at FSU. Like many campuses across the country FSU maintains the institutionally discriminatory structures built during the era of slavery and Jim Crow. To this day there are many ways that black students and other students of color continue to be marginalized.
However, FSU also has a history of struggle and of people working to change this situation. Projects like the affirmative action program worked to increase black enrollment at FSU to record levels. However with the end of affirmative action in 1999, black enrollment has declined and remains disproportionately low. Other issues include the low number of black faculty, and the continued presence of slave-owner Francis Eppes on campus.
At this teach-in we seek to delve into these issues and to discuss ways that we can organize to fight against racism and to remake FSU into a campus that operates in the interest of oppressed people.