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By Sarah M. Ramirez It has been more than a year since the student-lead group MoHonest first decorated campus with slips of paper detailing personal experiences of racism in our college community. In response to outrage surrounding the unjust arrest of a Mount Holyoke student, the College and Administration scrambled to host residence hall conversations, have open meetings with students, and offer more workshops and opportunities to engage with racism and microaggressions. Since then, Mount Holyoke College certainly has paid closer attention to it’s social climate on paper. But has anything really changed?

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When he asks you what's wrong, tell him: systematic oppression. #mohonest

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Have you all seen these poster around campus? I hope that everyone who has has taken some time to reflect on the messages being portrayed- about speaking out, standing up, recognizing, and changing thoughts and actions for the better.  To learn more about MoHonest and to visit the source of these photos, follow those links. 

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I'm disappointed that other residence halls' community meetings were conducted so poorly. I left my own Mandelles meeting feeling hopeful, and I wish that other places had the fortune that, in my opinion, my hall had, in engaging in a thought-provoking discussion that began preliminary teamwork efforts to positively impact and improve this college campus.

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MoHonest, we support you. From students of Bryn Mawr College and members of Leverage the Zine. 

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I just wrote a LITS blog post about racism at Mount Holyoke that I think covers a lot of history not many people know about and would apply to this discussion.

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Archives gets #MoHonest about history of racism at MHC

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It's Not Funny

As soon as my religion was known to her, my friend began spewing stereotype after stereotype, joke after joke "Oh that's weird your nose isn't big at all" or "that's ironic that you spend tons of money because Jews are known to be frugal" "we call the garbage dump next to our house Auschwitz" and "aren't Standardized tests biased towards Jewish people because it was created by a Jew?" Just because you think your jokes are funny doesn't mean I do. Also, just in case you were wondering, the reason why Jews are so "good with money" is because in the 30s and 40s the only job Jews could have were in banks. Jews couldn't own land and couldn't hold any job besides working in banks. I laugh it off because it's so uncomfortable and insulting so please, next time think about what you're actually inferring when you make a comment.