Thoughts

Yik Yak has served as a place where cowardice acts and animus for other people can run ramped. This campus faces a long road to redemption as we try to turn this campus around. Rhodes is a school that was founded during the peculiar institution, in Memphis Tennessee, a highly racially charged area that was for slavery. Over the years we've seen racist practices and acceptance become apart of normal and accepted activity as it related to African American students. The first black student to arrive on Rhodes's campus was Colby Smith. A key organizer and never of the notorious group the invaders. As Yik Yak was identified as the Edsel and not the problem, The campus community was forced to look at self, and question did they contribute at all the the toxic racial environment that has been maintained since this Colleges's founding. W.E.B Dubois once said, a government cannot fail a group of people it was not designed to protect.. The true is same for institutions. An institution cannot fail students that were not in visioned by it's founders . If we are to truly tackle the problems we face as a community. We are to re work the very creed and standards by which Rhodes holds itself