University of Wisconsin-Madison apologizes for homecoming video that featured almost all white students. - NBCBLK
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has apologized for a homecoming video that featured almost all white students.
"To promote student homecoming, we recently produced a video called 'Home is where Wi Are,' and we invited various student groups to participate in the video," the committee said in a statement Monday."Unfortunately, not all the video images produced were included in the final product, including those of students from under represented populations."
"Not only did we tell them what we thought home was but we also took hours out of our day to film as well and were told we would be in the video and notified when it was completed," Wade"Being Black at this school is a daily struggle both mentally and physically," she wrote."It is hard to have pride for a school where you know you are not wanted and where they obviously do not consider this our home as well.
The university and the Wisconsin Alumni Association, which sponsors the homecoming committee, apologized to students and alumni in separate statements Monday for what they described as the video's partial representation of the UW-Madison student body, which as of"We know that, both historically and today, students of color and other under-represented groups do not feel as welcome on our campus as majority students,"in a statement posted to its website.
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