Boston University Responds to Events in US Capitol on Wednesday
January 7, 2021 – Boston University President Robert Brown sent a letter to BU students, faculty, and staff on Thursday, condemning the attacks in Washington, DC on Wednesday. “Yesterday’s violent occupation of our Capitol in Washington by a mob was an attack on our democracy. I condemn it, as should all Americans and people around the world,” Brown said in his statement.
The letter is publicly available on the Office of the President website.
January 8, 2021 – Boston University’s founding director of the Center for Antiracist Research, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, responded in real time to these events on Twitter. He cited law enforcement’s treatment of the attackers as compared to the treatment of the Black community by law enforcement around the country: “The same reason why the police routinely kill Black people is the same reason why the police are routinely unprepared for White domestic terrorists.”
The full story and Dr. Kendi’s tweets are available in this article published this morning by BU Today.