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The trashing of a BC multicultural floor deepens long-standing concerns about racism on campus
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A few days into this semester, first-year students who live on Boston College’s multicultural floor, all women and primarily Black students, with some Latinas, awoke in the early morning hours to loud banging on their doors, hallway trash cans overturned, and litter everywhere.
Three days later, in early February, the women said, two white male students strolled down their hallway singing about the “colored girls.”
The incidents point to an exhausting pattern, according to Black students, who say they feel targeted, harassed, and unprotected by school administrators at the Jesuit college. The defacing of a Black Lives Matter poster in 2017, the racist graffiti scrawled on furniture, walls, and a bathroom in 2018, and threatening comments made to Black students during the recent presidential election have piled up, students said.
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