racism
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Letter to the editor: Policing rooted in racism; Middlebury isn’t exempt
The history of the police may seem like it was a long time ago, and it is tempting to think that we should focus only on the present.…
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Letter to the editor: Police racism is undeniable
When Chief Hanley stated, “I reject completely the notion that Middlebury PD engages in systemic racism and I’m not going to engage in a debate over it,” in…
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Letter to the editor: Reader reacts to intolerance with poetic license
Editor’s note: The writer responds to an item in the July 30 edition of the Independent with a poem. From “Statement on Hacking Incident at Middlebury Selectboard Meeting”…
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Midd officials condemn racist incident at meeting
Editor’s note: This message came from Brian R. Carpenter, chair of the Middlebury selectboard. In the early moments of the Middlebury selectboard’s July 28 meeting, which was being…
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Rose Archer: Step up and be antiracist
VERGENNES — “Relaxation is a privilege. It’s complicity,” Rose Archer told the gathering of about 40 on the Vergennes green this past Saturday afternoon. Archer, a native of…
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Editorial: Of Vermont and systemic racism
Our challenge in a predominatly white state is to promote a culture that accepts others as equals. Vermont did that recently, and with a fair amount of grace, by…
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Books on racism, social justice spur local sales
There is nothing new under the sun, the saying goes. It’s all been done before. In the case of racial inequality in the United States, the death of…
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Departing professor details campus racism
MIDDLEBURY — Marissel Hernández-Romero, a Black professor from Puerto Rico, began a three-year appointment at Middlebury College in the Department of Luso-Hispanic Studies in 2017. She arrived with…
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Abdulaziz offers his view on police response
BRANDON — A Black man who was ordered by Middlebury police to “raise his hands” after an erroneous report that he had been detaining a woman at gunpoint…
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Kemi Fuentes-George: Simply being Black carries risk
This week’s writer is Kemi Fuentes-George, a professor of political science at Middlebury College. This piece originally appeared in The Middlebury Campus newspaper. The most recent time I was stopped…