As if I didn't hate Auburn enough already...

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The demands in the PDF below were developed over the course of several months thanks to the close council of a number of Auburn University undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, staff, and alumni. They are organized into four categories:

Monetary Commitments
Campus Culture
Education & Training
Structural Changes
We see these as four broad areas over which Auburn administrators, if they so decided, could advocate for transformative racial equity. We recognize that many of these demands have been put forth before by groups and individuals predating our own, and that, due to the nature of the white supremacist machine that is Auburn University, many will be put forth after us.

The demands listed throughout this document have been developed with a great deal of care and love for the present and past Black members of the Auburn community who strive daily to make this campus a more inclusive and equitable space for all. Our current action builds upon their experiences and work to establish racial justice on this campus.

In addition, we would like to leave a disclaimer with these demands. Certainly, meeting any or all of these demands will require a large amount of work. It is likely that our suggested deadlines, though informed by research and conversation with experienced parties, may even be unrealistic. However, we insist that Auburn University administrators are capable of and responsible for seeing these demands through as soon as possible, regardless of whether our estimates are accurate.

Finally, we would like to firmly state that the result of these demands should not cause disproportionate additional work for the students or staff of the Office of Inclusion and Diversity (OID). We have already witnessed how initiatives like Student Involvement’s 2019 “Breaking Barriers” event, President Gogue’s Listening Sessions, and the Presidential Task Force for Opportunity & Equity have exploited the time and labor of Black students and staff without meeting their needs. To that end, while this work will need to be collaborative and span multiple departments, we ask that the University refrain from tasking OID with the sole responsibility of fulfilling these demands.

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