Hillsdale College is refusing to fold under pressure from alumni and students to make a statement in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. In a response Thursday morning, the conservative college insisted its past and present actions on racial injustice and police brutality speak for themselves.
"The College is pressed to speak," the administration wrote in a letter published in the school’s student newspaper, the Collegian. "It is told that saying what it always has said is insufficient. Instead, it must decry racism and the mistreatment of Black Americans in particular. This, however, is precisely what the College has always said."
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