University of Michigan students are riled up with anger and disappointment from the recent racist acts on their campus. A series of demeaning flyers with racial slurs have been posted all across the college campus. Additionally, several other incidents of racism have surfaced on the yard, and the school administration has done little to nothing to rectify it. So the student body has taken matters into their own hands.

The series of unfortunate, racial events started in September when, the Michigan Daily reported, anti-Latinx and pro-Trump graffiti were found on a campus landmark. A few short weeks later, three students returned to their dorms to find the N-word, scrawled on their door. The next day, racist tags of “Free Dylann Roof, I Hate N*ggers” was found in downtown Ann Arbor, with a flyer in support of Roof, the white supremacist mass murderer, sentenced to life in prison without parole earlier this year for the Charleston shooting massacre in June 2015.

On Sept. 20, hundreds of students, the black student union, and activist groups protested on campus, promoting a meeting with the university's president Mark Schlissel and Police Chief Robert Neumann that same night. 

On Sept. 21, president Schlissel sent out an email touching on the disgusting incidents and, although the remarks were in support of the marginalized student body members, the effort to diminish the grievances was dismal.

UMich students, both minorities and allies, are continuing to fight to suppress the racism that has been publicly defacing the morale of their institution in the last year. Students continue to speak out by voting to rename campus monuments once erected for racist school professors like eugenicist C.C. Little – who supported reproductive access limitation for women of color – and silently protesting and demanding that their administration takes charge to implement change, or else the student body will.