WRITE Lab Statement of Support
We stand with Black Lives Matter as cause, as a belief, and as daily action because our country has failed to act upon the social contract that would allow each and every Black person to thrive socially, economically, and politically.听听We understand that anti-Blackness is a social disease that infects public life and social institutions, including our university and other locations. We understand also that race, ethnicity, economic wellbeing, and public health intersect: COVID-19 disproportionately burdens racial and ethnic minorities as well as the poor, the aged, and the disabled.听听We also understand the ecological decimation leads to more contagi