“For every moment that I have to address my community, for every meeting that I have to organize and be in, is every moment that my white counterparts were studying for finals, every moment that they could dedicate to their academic success that we don’t get the privilege to,” Akyianu said. Speaking for the CFA, she said that though space is given to discuss issues of racism at Sac State, the task of acting on it is relegated to the students and faculty affected by the issues in what the CFA calls “cultural taxation.”Īkyianu called the issue “racial taxation.” For her, time spent rectifying racial issues takes time away from her studies, an issue she said white students do not face.
Sac State’s California Faculty Association and social work department also made statements at the meeting.Īndrea Moore is an associate professor of ethnic studies and Sac State’s racial and social justice representative for the CFA. “I think my community is done accepting apologies,” Akyianu said.Īkyianu said she wants an action-oriented apology, including Tim Ford’s firing, a zero-tolerance racism policy to set precedent for future incidents of racism and mandated cultural responsiveness training that students have a hand in creating. The words I used could easily be understood to say that the university and I in particular were going to be silent about what we should never be silent about,” Nelsen said.Īkyianu said Nelsen’s original statement saying the incident would not be addressed publicly anymore communicates that Sac State values policy more than its students. “I wrote, ‘The altercation is a personnel matter that the university is investigating, and we will not address it again publicly.’ I should never have written that sentence, and I apologize for it,” said. He apologized for that statement at the town hall. The university announced the town hall hours after Sac State President Robert Nelsen sent a SacSend email saying the school would not discuss the incident publicly further. In the video, Ford’s wife uses a racial slur and Ford throws a drink at his neighbors’ home after announcing that he works at Sac State.
The town hall was the latest in Sac State’s response to a viral video featuring economics professor Tim Ford and his wife arguing with their neighbors. Sac State BSU president Adwoa Akyianu called for the professor’s firing on Tuesday during a virtual town hall hosted by Sac State, which aimed to address how the campus responds to personnel issues and discuss how Sac State can respond to racial bias. The president of Sacramento State’s Black Student Union pressed administrators to fire the professor seen in a viral video where his wife used racial slurs.
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