Via Campus Reform:
Ivy League students held a “funeral” for those “murdered by structural racism and capitalism” Friday afternoon in anticipation of the forthcoming verdict in Ferguson, Mo.
As a part of Ferguson Fridays at the University of Pennsylvania, a couple dozen students gathered for a mock wake of “black and brown bodies” who have been oppressed in the world. The students–with both minorities and Caucasians in attendance–congregated in front of a casket to hear personal anecdotes and poems, according to an attendee at the event.
“Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation (SOUL) presents a funeral for those casualties of crimes against humanity,” the event programs read. “Black and brown bodies murdered by structural racism and capitalism both domestically and globally.”
The funeral speakers lamented on a variety of topics spanning from immigration to Palestine to the Civil War. One speaker alleged that Americans had been misinformed about the true nature of the Civil War as it was really “about black bodies.”