{"id":121847,"date":"2023-02-04T08:56:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T13:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/?p=121847"},"modified":"2023-02-04T08:56:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T13:56:04","slug":"u-minnesota-anti-racism-center-says-white-supremacy-to-blame-for-tyre-nichols-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/u-minnesota-anti-racism-center-says-white-supremacy-to-blame-for-tyre-nichols-killing\/","title":{"rendered":"U. Minnesota anti-racism center says white supremacy to blame for Tyre Nichols killing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The University of Minnesota’s Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity, or CARHE, put out a statement late last week claiming the culprit in Tyre Nichols’ death<\/a> was … white supremacy.<\/p>\n

Nichols, a black man, was beaten by several black police officers in Memphis, Tennessee on January 7. He died three days later.<\/p>\n

“The [CARHE] team […] mourns for Tyre and feels fresh grief for victims of anti-Black police violence in our own home,” the statement<\/a> reads. “The violent death of Tyre and each of the men pictured [below]<\/em>\u00a0are not isolated events. They are patterns that repeat over and over and over because of pervasive structural racism.”<\/p>\n

“Due to\u00a0structural racism, law enforcement inflicts disproportionate brutality against Black people in\u00a0Minnesota\u00a0and across the\u00a0United States,” the statement continues. “The killings, terror, and oppression are a direct result of anti-Black racist attitudes, policies, procedures, and leadership that pervade our institutions.”<\/p>\n

The statement also blamed white supremacy and structural racism for recent shootings that targeted Asians — despite the suspects<\/a>, as with the Nichols case, being the same race<\/a> as the victims.<\/p>\n

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\"Black<\/p>\n

We reject the dehumanization of structural racism, and we refuse to grow numb to racialized violence. At CARHE we are committed to dismantling structural racism so all people can live healthy, dignified lives safe from violence. We do the work of antiracism because we are\u00a0fueled by love<\/em>. We are fueled by love for Black communities, Asian communities, and all racialized communities impacted by racist violence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The message also notes that a “core mission” of CARHE is “narrative change” — it calls upon academics and journalists to use “harm-acknowledging terms for police violence and use of less-lethal weapons.”<\/p>\n

CARHE began via seed money from Blue Cross\/Blue Shield. Last year, CARHE founder Rachel Hardeman got $800,000 to study<\/a> \u201cracialized police violence\u201d and its relationship to \u201cadverse reproductive health outcomes” via the Community Events and Pathways to Inequities in Birth Outcomes project.<\/p>\n

MORE:<\/strong> \u2018White supremacy\u2019 embedded in history of exercise: professor<\/a><\/p>\n

IMAGES: Feng Yu\/Shutterstock.com; CARHE\/U. Minnesota screencap<\/p>\n

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