Anybody who has a penchant for racism cases should expecially be infurieated after reading this story.
This incident took place back in January of this year. While on the Fox News website, I came across a online video interview of this man.
At last fall’s annual activities fair, Marine reservist Matt Sanchez, GS ‘07, got into an argument with several members of the International Socialist Organization and later filed a harassment complaint against three students.
More than three months later, the administration responded with a letter apologizing for the incident but took no disciplinary action. Realizing that he would get no public response from Columbia, Sanchez took his story to the press last week in an interview with FOX News.
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On Club Day, Zach Zill, CC ‘06, Monique Dols, GS ‘06, and Jonah Birch, CC ‘05, approached the table for the Columbia Military Society-a Student Governing Board-recognized group for Columbia students in Fordham’s ROTC program-because they heard it was being used for ROTC recruitment, which is not allowed on campus.
“We went there to voice our disagreement with the fact that they were there and pick up some of their fliers,” Dols said.
Sanchez stopped by the table soon after and entered the debate. In the course of the argument, Zill asserted that the military “uses minorities as cannon fodder,” Sanchez said.
“My last name is Sanchez. I’m Puerto Rican. I’m a minority. Zach Zill is blonde and blue-eyed. I said, ‘Look, I’m a minority. I know I enlisted; I don’t feel like I’m being used at all,’” Sanchez said. “[Zill] said, ‘Well, you’re too stupid to know that you’re being used.’”
Mark Xue, CC ‘06, a Marine officer candidate and president of the society, was also at the table and confirmed Sanchez’s accusations.
“They were telling him that he was stupid and ignorant, that he was being brainwashed and used for being a minority in the military,” Xue said. “Regardless of what you think about military recruiters, those comments were racially motivated.”
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“Here you have a military veteran, a Hispanic man, who’s being targeted because of his racial status, and nothing happens. It disappears into the University framework,” Xue said. (more…)
In the interview, Sanchez mentioned that the main folks that were up in his face calling him “ignorant” were white.
What I find particularly amazing with this story is how the usual suspects in the “racism alert” crowd are willing to excuse this type of behaviour from whites. Had this been under different circumstances, boycotts and press conferences would be order of the day.
