Racist remarks offend

I AM a third year white student at NMMU. I would like to stay anonymous for my personal safety on campus.

Before NMMU had its Diversity Month, a board went up to allow students to explain what democracy is. People wrote on the board and expressed their thoughts in a positive manner.

However racial slurs were raised against white students that were harmful and explicit. There are foreign exchange students from Germany also on the campus who walk past and read the board, with the content on it.

The university has taken the board down, but it still lies in the passage where people walk by, and people are still writing racial and hate speech. The university has not offered an apology to any white students and no disciplinary action has been taken against anyone.

I am ashamed of the way that a majority is allowed to issue racial slurs and hate speech on an NMMU campus to a minority during Diversity Month. This is not the first time I have experienced racial hatred on this campus, but as a white person on the Second Avenue campus, I had to accept it and move on.

Enough is enough and people must be brought to book on the Second Avenue campus.

NMMU student, Port Elizabeth