{"id":20445,"date":"2020-07-08T09:28:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=20445"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:50:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:50:18","slug":"daniel-mcneil-talks-to-ottawa-citizen-about-anti-racist-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2020\/daniel-mcneil-talks-to-ottawa-citizen-about-anti-racist-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel McNeil Talks to the Ottawa Citizen About Creating an \u201cAnti-Racist University\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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History Professor Daniel McNeil<\/a> is one of the drafters of a letter that offers concrete and material proposals to help redress the legacies of systemic anti-Black racism in our community. A short excerpt is included below with the full article, “Profs, alumni urge Carleton to accept eight commitments to build ‘anti-racist university<\/a>,'” available online. (The link includes a copy of the letter as well.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A group of Carleton University professors, lecturers, staff, students and alumni are urging the university to adopt an eight-step plan to combat \u201cdirect and outspoken racism, hate-speech and microaggressions that Black students, staff, and faculty at Carleton have regularly reported on campus.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A letter, drafted co-operatively and with input from 42 members of the university, was delivered to Carleton President Beno\u00eet-Antoine Bacon on Tuesday. It was signed by more than 500 people and is still be circulated to garner more signatures of support, said Daniel McNeil, a professor in the department of history and one of the drafters of the letter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

History Professor Daniel McNeil is one of the drafters of a letter that offers concrete and material proposals to help redress the legacies of systemic anti-Black racism in our community. A short excerpt is included below with the full article, “Profs, alumni urge Carleton to accept eight commitments to build ‘anti-racist university,’” available online. (The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"news-4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20447,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20445\/revisions\/20447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}