Racist Flyers Found On Princeton Campus For Second Time This Year

PRINCETON, NJ — Amid controversies surrounding racist and anti-semitic incidents in the local school district, similar flyers were reportedly discovered this week at Princeton University.

The flyers were found in a number of locations on the university’s campus this week, including one that targets the co-chair of a local non-profit that combats racial injustice, Planet Princeton reports. In addition to targeting Not In Our Town’s Linda Oppenheim, another flyer promotes a fake class about white guilt and reparations.

It is the second time this year racist flyers have been found on the university’s campus. The controversy follows the release of information concerning the university's ties to slavery. Not only did a slave sale take place on campus, but the university's first nine presidents were slaveholders at some point in their lives.

It's also an issue that has plagued the school district for two years, most recently when a swastika and racist and sexist language appeared as part of an eighth grade science document available to John Witherspoon Middle School students online. All 261 eighth grade students had access to a Google spreadsheet that was being used as part of a class science experiment.

That incident prompted Princeton officials and religious leaders to speak out against hate speech. In fact, Princeton considers itself a welcoming community. On the same day Federal Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested four undocumented immigrants, Princeton officials participated in a rally in support of a clean DREAM Act.

Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert called President Donald Trump's decision to eliminate DACA, "a cruel decision that will tear apart families, undermine our economy and betrays our values."

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