It Takes More Than Just Being Here
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Title
It Takes More Than Just Being Here
Subject
Student op-ed response to op-ed written by Jeanette Cortez. The author feels that Cortez is overly dismissive of the "very real discrimination faced by students of color at Middlebury, and their efforts to fight against that discrimination".
Description
Volume 112, Number 15
Creator
Maya Doig-Acuna
Publisher
The Campus
Date
02/20/2014
Contributor
Maya Doig-Acuna
Coverage
"For me and some of my friends, this 'fifth class' feeling means having to pause conversations with white peers and tell them why it is offensive when they say 'ghetto', or touch your hair without asking, or ask what your story is and how you got to Middlebury."
"People have a right to their own anger, frustration, and exhaustion."
"When students of color decide to point out and change some of the structural and individual racism at our school, it is out of an effort to shape this institution into a more inclusive and safe one, both for current and future students. It is dismissive and inaccurate to describe these voices, these calls for action, as complaints or even as barriers to the success of students of color."
"People have a right to their own anger, frustration, and exhaustion."
"When students of color decide to point out and change some of the structural and individual racism at our school, it is out of an effort to shape this institution into a more inclusive and safe one, both for current and future students. It is dismissive and inaccurate to describe these voices, these calls for action, as complaints or even as barriers to the success of students of color."
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Maya Doig-Acuna, “It Takes More Than Just Being Here,” Archives of Anti-Racist Activism, accessed October 27, 2026, https://twilightprojectantiracistrecords.middcreate.net/items/show/590.