Baltimore and Hopkins activists rally for Charlottesville
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrases “sga” and “student government”.
Summary
- This News-Letter article covers a Baltimore demonstration responding to the Charlottesville white nationalist rally and the Hopkins SGA’s response.
- The paper reported that Hopkins and Baltimore community members marched in Charles Village, ending at the Lee-Jackson Confederate monument and calling for it to be removed.
- The article says the SGA sent an email condemning the Charlottesville white nationalists and offering support to students organizing protests; Executive President Noh Mebrahtu said the SGA wanted to help lead them.
- The reporter writes that Hopkins Black Student Union President Kwame Alston urged students to challenge hateful ideas, saying, “The way that [racist] events happen is that pockets of people get to have their ideas and no one challenges them,”
- According to the article, Baltimore officials proposed removing all Confederate monuments, and the City Council unanimously endorsed a resolution calling for their “immediate destruction.”
- The article adds that resident Joann Noble supported keeping the Lee-Jackson statue, while Mebrahtu said, “There is no reason for it to be there.”