ABSTRACT
Academia's historical support of racialized violence dates back to the institution of slavery. The stain of slavery is forever embedded in the history of the ivory tower. In October 2015, Ben Fields, a white male school resource officer, violently arrested a 16-year-old African American female student for using a cell phone in her classroom in Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina. In the United States, though a person of color had been elected president and other milestones in racial equality have been achieved since the turbulent 1960s, the nation has failed to become a post-racial and more inclusive society. Blow has argued that racialized policing "is a structural issue" and the use of body and dash cameras "won't change basic character" of white police officers. The racially preconceived judgements of law enforcement assume blacks in and on the periphery of campuses are suspects and do not belong in academic spaces.
