Musings on a racist college campus (TW racist vandalism)
Hi CC friends! I need your help. I want help processing what's been happening in my dorm lately, and I think it's controversial enough to warrant CC.
I am lucky enough to live in a dorm with Huntley House, a live in learning community for black men on campus. Our dorm aso has the Social Justice live in learning (LLC), of which I am a part. I've become really close with the Huntley guys, and some of the girls in the Social Justice LLC as well. Here are some cute pics of us, for your viewing pleasure:
Here's a pic of some of my fine ass friends that I took:

Here's a pic of some of us ice skating:

Here's an ugly ass pic they took when they hacked into my phone:

Unfortunately, the presence of black people on a college campus is disturbing for some people, and they decided to grace the notice board outside of the Huntley dorms with some racist graffiti at the end of last semester:

Even though it's is common knowledge who did this graffiti, and it's explicitly against University of Minnesota conduct codes, no one was kicked out of our building, which routinely happens for smoking, drinking, and other forms of vandalism.
After break, the leaders of the two houses, the cute AF RAs Kaylan and Nathan decided to pin Black Lives Matter notice boards up. You can guess what happened.
Nathan's was ripped a little, but Kaylans was ripped down entirely.



It literally makes my blood boil to write this. The two girls who ripped it down were drunk and got caught in the act by another RA. Even so, the only form of disciplinary action was to write them up. There wasnt even an email sent around campus like there was with the first incident.
Some people from my friend group, Latavia, Paige, Julia, Cassie and I offered to help Kaylan put up a new, better board in its place, with a sort of "you can't keep us down!" message, but it feels like too little, too late. A lot of my friends feel unwelcome and unwanted by the other people in our dorm, and considering the circumstances, that's not unwarranted.
I'm so mad. I just want to make those girls feel as unwelcome and unwanted as they want to make my friends and mentors to feel. There must be a healthy way to channel this.. right?? What would you do? How do you think my community should address this problem? Because I'm really angry, and at a loss.
Thanks for making to it the end, y'all. It's cathartic to post here, and I really value your input.
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