At least six HBCUs received threats on Monday, January 31, while many more were targeted the next day — the beginning of Black History Month
Howard University was among the 17 HBCUs targeted with bomb threats earlier this week. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images Earlier this week, more than 20 historically Black colleges and universities locked down their campuses and, in some cases, canceled classes over a wave of bomb threats. At least six of those schools received threats on Monday, January 31, while many more were targeted the next day — the beginning of Black History Month.
“It makes me realize how there are still these terrorists that are trying to stop minorities from advancing or just getting a simple education from a predominantly Black institution,” one Spelman student, Saigan Boyd, told CNN. “I’m just ultimately tired of dealing with this level of unsolicited hatred. I’m just tired of being terrorized like how my grandparents were.” Which schools were targeted? Over the course of two days, at least 21 schools reported bomb threats.
Speaking to the Washington Post, Robert Mueck — director of public safety at St. John’s College and a member of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators’ Domestic Preparedness Committee — put it this way: “It’s almost like reaching out and saying, ‘We can get you.’” How are students feeling? Many of those who have spoken to reporters expressed the range of emotions one would expect — fear, anger, confusion — after being threatened simply for existing. “My main concern is my students’ mental health. As college students, we already have so much mentally to deal with,” Jamera Forbes, Morgan State senior and the school’s student body president, told the Washington Post.
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