X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 10:26:11 -0600 (CST) From: "Alan Spector" Sender: spector@calumet.purdue.edu Reply-To: spector@calumet.purdue.edu To: revs@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fw: Racism at UK -atackers unknown Note from Alan Spector, REVS editor/manager REVS listmember Rodney Coates posted this to another network. I thought it might be interesting for those who have illusions that these kinds of things only happen in Yugoslavia or Germany. ================================================== From: "Rodney Coates" Date: Fri, 05 Apr 96 15:23:40 +0 To: PROGRESSIVE SOCIOLOGISTS NETWORK Subject: Racism at UK -atackers unknown Just when I thought it was safe to go home for the day this just in from UK what the hell is happening...blacks under attack from the Kentucky Kernal (Univrsity of Kentucky -Lexington, KY student newspaper) Attackers threaten UK student by Brenna Reilly A student's life was threatened on campus yesterday morning while she was walking to clas. According to UK Police, Tanya-Marie Cole was approached by two white males at about 11 am outside the back entrance of Kastle Hall. "Two white males pushed here into the hall and said if she didn't like her life here they could end it for her," said UK Police Chief W.H. McComas. McComas said one of the suspects held the knife to Cole's face. Cole was not phycisally hurt, but was emotionally upset, McComas said. "I was very mad," said Cole, a biology junior. "I think it is funny that after all of the men who wrote, they decided to go after a female." Police beleive the incident may be related to a letter to the editor in Thursday's Kentucky Kernel that was written by Cole. She wrote the letter in response to previous letters to the editor about columinist Boyce Watkins. In her letter, Cole talkded about what it is like being a black person at UK and how black students have to work harder for respect. Cole said the men turned her around so she couldn't see their faces. "There is no way they could have attached my name to my face, Cole said. She said she beleives the suspects know her or are in one of her classes. snip ..snip.. Cole said she thinks the men were only trying to scare her and were not going to hurt her. She said she thinks they wanted her to stop writing letters." In her letter last week Cole wrote: "Slavery may be over but the tremors from the aftermath are being felt everywhere." My point was proven today," Coles said yesterday, "People don't believe it happens, maybe now they will. .... what can i say.. and the struggle continues still umoja Only when lions have historians will hunters cease being heroes. African Proverb Without struggle there is no progress. Frederick Douglass The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. Steven Biko yours in the struggle Rodney D. Coates Director of Black World Studies Associate Professor of Sociology Miami University Oxford, Ohio 45056 513 529-1235 email: coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu