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The Amherst Student

Volume 152 • Issue 1

The Amherst Student

The Newspaper of Amherst College Since 1868

Friday, March 24, 2023

Sika Essegbey '23

Number of Articles: 2

First Article: March 24, 2021

Latest Article: April 7, 2021

Black Perspective: Protect and Serve — The “Us” in Justice

By Sika Essegbey '23, Ellis Phillips '23, and Sirus Wheaton '23

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April 7, 2021

As Derek Chauvin’s trial [https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-police-chief-derek-chauvin-in-no-way-should-ve-kept-george-floyd-pinned-by-the-neck/600042338/] regarding the death of George Floyd continues into its second week, Black people nationwide are again painfully forced to watch a process that seems rigged against them. We watched Trayvon Martin’s murderer, George Zimmerman, get acquitted in 2013 [https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/14/us/george-zimmerman-verdict-trayvon-martin.html] . We

Black Perspective: American Normalcy

By Sika Essegbey '23, Ellis Phillips '23, and Sirus Wheaton '23

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March 24, 2021

Welcome to the inaugural article of our new column, Black Perspective. We, the columnists, lament the fact that we must begin our writing careers with the circumstances of the past week looming large. On that topic, we would like to begin by recognizing and denouncing the abhorrent acts of racial violence committed this past week [https://www.npr.org/2021/03/17/978055571/anti-asian-attacks-rise-during-pandemic-read-nprs-stories-on-the-surge-in-violen] and historically, towards Asian Americans

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