Especially Wheaton friends, read this.
In February 2012, Wheaton College was jolted by a racial incident infamously known as: #chapeltweets. Participants in the Rhythm & Praise chapel service at this small evangelical liberal arts college (with the motto: “For Christ and His Kingdom”) were publicly mocked and insulted on the social networking sites Twitter and Facebook. The chapel service, which presented forms of music, dancing, and painting largely from the African American tradition, was derided as an unworthy expression of worship. Tweets and memes ranged from being naïve and racially insensitive to malicious and borderline overtly racist. Examples include (more at the end of the post):
In the aftermath of these and other tweets, many students responded by downplaying the importance of race, claiming that the tweets were not offensive and that students of color who were upset were being overly sensitive. While the initial furor of the Chapel Tweets incident has died down…
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The Tattered Rose said:
Thank you for sharing my message to the Wheaton College community. I truly hope my blog spurs people to get engaged with the college and to actively help them to change the culture and the ethos of the school so that no one would feel alienated solely or primarily due to their race. Of course, there will always be reason why people don’t fit in with others, but those should not be attribute to one’s race, class, sex, gender, sexual orientation or ability. Thanks again for sharing!
The Tattered Rose said:
(correction) Thank you for sharing my message to the Wheaton College community. I truly hope my blog spurs people to get engaged with the college and to actively help them to change the ethos of the school, so that no one would feel alienated solely or primarily due to their race. Of course, there will always be reasons people don’t fit in with others, but those should not be attributed to one’s race, class, sex, gender, sexual orientation or ability. Thanks again for sharing!