Thursday, June 11, 2020
INDEX
Vol. CXXIX, No. 117
© 2020 The Michigan Daily
NEWS ....................................
OPINION ...............................
ARTS/NEWS..........................
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SPORTS................................
MICHIGAN IN COLOR
Mass incarceration
and Black American
health
Analysis of U.S. prisons
& detriments to the Black
community.
>> SEE PAGE 8
NEWS
International
Students
Students losing jobs
causes visa concerns.
>> SEE PAGE 2
OPINION
Frontline workers
Impact of high stress and
personal turmoil on healthcare
workers during the pandemic.
>> SEE PAGE 4
ARTS
Sport as Art
Sports broadcasters
employ all sorts of
creative techniques to
enliven their coverage.
>> SEE PAGE 6
SPORTS
Champions
An oral history of the 2005
Michigan softball team’s
title-winning season.
>> SEE PAGE 10
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Last weekend, The Michigan
Daily
reporters
went
to
11
different protests, driving 269
miles and speaking to almost 100
people in 10 cities about why they
came out. Some said it was their
first time protesting. Many more
said they were used to protests in
big cities, but they never expected
protests of this magnitude — or
even protests in general — in their
suburban
hometowns.
When
asked if not before, why now,
almost everyone had the same
answer: People are tired, and they
want change.
This
article
is
the
first
installment of a four-part series
on police brutality protests across
Metro Detroit over the weekend
of June 6 and 7. Check back at
michigandaily.com this week for
parts two, three and four.
It was a sight many said they
thought they’d never see.
Ulysses Wright and Charlie
Evans were working at the
Hungry Howie’s in Ferndale
on Saturday afternoon when
thousands
started
flooding
past
their
storefront window, marching
in protest of police brutality.
The two went outside to take
in the sight, which left them
speechless and nearly moved
Wright to tears. Wright said
the crowd meant so much to
him because he is a Black man
in America, but also because
he has never seen people come
together like this.
“It makes me want to cry,
like you don’t really care about
anything else in the world,”
Wright said. “I think the world
kind of stopped for me, and I’ve
never had that feeling. There
was no existence except taking it
all in. It’s hard to put it in words,
because that’s just cheapening
it. It was like literally if God
himself came to show us he was
God, that was it.”
Over the weekend, tens of
thousands wore masks to march
in suburbs throughout Metro
Detroit against police brutality,
joining
millions
across
the
country and around the world
in wave after wave of protests
sparked by the killing of George
Floyd.
Throughout the latter half
of the 1900s, the growth of the
suburbs often came at Detroit’s
expense, as capital and white
residents moved out of the city
in droves while Black residents
were prevented from following.
To this day, Detroit is unique
among other metropolitan hubs
across the country in that much
of the wealth is concentrated in
its outlying suburbs rather than
in the city itself.
The
majority
of
those
arrested in the first several
days of Detroit’s protests lived
in the suburbs. Through the
week, protests began spreading
to Detroit’s suburbs, many of
which are predominantly white.
According to Sterling Heights
resident
Megan
Williams,
her ancestors had been slaves
and her mother had walked
with Martin Luther King Jr.
She marched in her very first
protest in Ferndale on Saturday
afternoon.
“We don’t want to repeat
cycles,” Williams said. “I refuse
to birth a child into a world
where they have to do any more
than us.”
Below
are
some
of
the
protesters from Saturday on
their experiences with racism
and what this current moment
means to them. You can read
more
from
protesters
on
Saturday in Part Two of this
series coming soon.
Twitter page
posts about
sexual assault
Account shares
anonymous messages,
receives mixed reactions
from students
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‘When one of us hurts, we all hurt’:
Tens of thousands protest racism
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Content Warning: Sexual assault,
sexual abuse.
A
Twitter
account
created
Wednesday
called
“Assaulters
at
UMich” posted a series of tweets
calling out alleged sexual assaulters
on the University of Michigan campus,
including a professor. The account
asked for direct messages from students
with claims of sexual assault and posted
these submissions to their page with
the name and picture of the alleged
assaulter along with any fraternity or
athletic team affiliation.
The Daily reached out to the creator
of the account via direct message,
whose identity cannot be verified and
asked to remain anonymous due to
safety concerns. The creator told The
Daily via Twitter direct messages that
they wanted to help survivors because
the University has failed to protect
survivors from their abusers.
“At first I wasn’t sure if people
would send in their stories, but once
individuals started sharing their stories
I was shocked at the sheer amount of
individuals who have gone through
these (traumas),” they said. “It just
shows how prevalent sexual assaults
(are) and that UMich needs to do a
better job taking action.”
The creator said though they are not
able to verify the submissions of alleged
abuse that they are receiving, they are
vigilant about deleting posts that are
proven to be untrue.
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