Shit’s not Biased. Address it UW-Madison.

Shit’s not Biased. Address it UW-Madison.

by Francisco Velazquez

Well since no publication found the need to gave me any approval to write an article on this, I’ll write and publish my own.

Oddly enough we ended our night walking from Langdon street where things were surprisingly quiet and calm...for once.

With no plans after a very odd party we bought Wendy’s and headed back to Sellery. After taking the elevator to the 3rd floor and waiting for someone to make a smart ass remark about us taking the elevator to the third floor we got off and proceeded to deliberate on whose room we’d go and watch a movie in.

As my friend and I are making our way down the hall to her room, this lowlife of a human decided to tell my friend and I to “shut the fuck up.” Completely appalled by his remark I check in with my friend and ask her if he’s being serious. Apparently, he is. A part of me thinks he forgot that I’m from Atlanta and I don’t fear a rich little boy who thinks that because his parents have money that he instills ANY fear in me. But that’s beside the point. My friend holds me back, but then he proceeds to get in her face, shove her, tells her to shut the fuck up and spits in her face.

He spits in her face.

See, this is where you fucked up bro. How animalistic are you to look at someone and spit in their face? Not only spit in her face but continue on to call us poor because we’re here on scholarships? Tell her that she’s not pulling her own weight and threaten to sue her because you threatened her? Either you're stupid or stupid. I say both.

In the blink of an eye, more than half of our cohort is in the hall holding my friend and I back. He knows that all these people in the hall are protecting him and yells from the other end of the hall to “come and get it.” He tells us that we’re the real problem and that we should all leave.

One sec honey, bouta school your dumbass.

1. You pay for tuition, and room and board.
2. Why are you here?
3. You continuously say how much you hate this floor yet, you have the complete ability, money and resources to move ANYWHERE else on this campus.
4. You have repeatedly used your microaggressions towards other people on the floor.
5. You come from a place of privilege but your skin tone will never be white.
6. Remember your roots honey, you’re a minority just like the rest of us.
7. You’re the problem.

By this time, I look down the hall and spot a house fellow. I call her over to “file a complaint.”

At this point, it takes us almost an hour to calm down and call UWPD and file a report with them.

Ironically,  this occurs in the middle of our Line Breaks Show. Our “Unhe[a]rd: Radical Forms of Protest addresses racism, classism, sexism, and how our generation is here to protest against these systematic stigmas in unconventional ways. The dialogue in our opening scene coincides almost exactly to the situation that occurred where this “thing” spit on her. This type of racial, sexual, and class discrimination happens everyday on this campus. The difference? The 9th Cohort of First Wave will never be silent. You can’t drown us when we same for this shit.

This scum of a human spit in my cohort sister’s face and told her to shut the fuck up. He threatened two of my other cohort sister’s and somehow still thinks he hasn’t done anything wrong.

He spits on her because he has more money and isn’t as dark. You can chant all you want about how much money you have but that won’t change how disgusting of a human you are.

This a reminder that we protest by living. By being of color at a PWI. We pay an EXTRA $200 to live on an artistic floor. My cohort sister does not pay room and board to get spat on. She does not pay an extra $200 to deal with insecure racist assholes who find their masculinity in stepping up to a womyn of color. You forgot she has an entire community behind her, ALWAYS.  Don’t think this time we’ll be silent. We came to this campus to change it and this will not be the last time you see or hear the 9th Cohort of First Wave.

Matthew Hsieh, check your privilege before you ever try the 9th Cohort again.