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<\/a>The Jan. 19 march honoring Martin Luther King Jr. began at Millett Hall and featured stops at the Bolinga Black Cultural Resources Center, the Women\u2019s Center, University Hall, the Student Union and Dunbar Library. (Photo by Erin Pence)<\/p><\/div>\n
The marchers at Wright State \u2014 who included students, faculty, staff and others \u2014 tore into meaty issues during stops along the way. They spoke out against violence against women, Muslim Americans, LGBT and African-Americans. The marchers included two representatives of the Family Violence Prevention Center of Greene County.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe live in a society today that is more segregated than it was when we made a law to desegregate schools in 1956,\u201d said Christa Agiro, associate professor and co-director for the Language Arts Program in the College of Education and Human Services. \u201cWe know that this natural segregation is happening, and we want to fight against it. It\u2019s going to take a lot more than just hoping and wishing.\u201d<\/p>\n
The marchers carried signs reading \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d and chanted: \u201cWhat side are you on, my people? We\u2019re on the freedom side.\u201d<\/p>\n
At Dunbar Library, Barabino recited King\u2019s six principles of nonviolence: nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people; nonviolence seeks to win friendship and understanding; nonviolence seeks to defeat injustice, not people; nonviolence holds that suffering can educate and transform; nonviolence chooses love instead of hate; nonviolence believes the universe is on the side of justice.<\/p>\n
Agiro told her fellow marchers that the nonviolent response to oppression must get smarter and smarter every time to match the shifting face of oppression.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt takes constant study, constant reflection, constant innovation to get ahead of the way that oppression is changing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
MLK Week will conclude with a screening of \u201cLetter from Birmingham Jail\u201d on Wednesday, Jan. 20, at 3 p.m. in the Millett Hall Atrium.<\/p>\n
King wrote the letter on April 16, 1963, defending nonviolent resistance to racism. It became an important text for the civil rights movement.<\/p>\n
The screening will include a discussion using nonviolence action to change unjust laws. It will be led by Tracy Snipe, associate professor of political science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Marchers on campus honor Martin Luther King Jr.’s principles of nonviolence while unleashing a wakeup call to action against oppression in today\u2019s society. Continue reading