An Open Letter to the Board of Trustees at Grove City College
Pass The Mic
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🗓️ 19 May 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:23.2 | An open letter to the Board of Trustees of Grove City College |
| 0:28.3 | by Dr. Jamar Tisby to the Board of Trustees at Grove City College. |
| 0:32.7 | I write to you with a heavy heart and with hope. I am heavy-hearted because I was dismayed to learn |
| 0:38.4 | of your decision to officially accept and adopt the report and recommendation of the special committee |
| 0:45.7 | generated by your subcommittee concerning supposed mission drift at the school because of |
| 0:50.6 | racial justice education. With your vote that report has now become the official stance of the |
| 0:56.7 | Board of Trustees of Grove City College and I am thus compelled to issue this response. |
| 1:03.3 | Yet I am hopeful because while we yet breathe we still have the chance to change. |
| 1:08.9 | My prayerful ambition is that this letter will provide additional encouragement for you |
| 1:14.0 | as leaders of Grove City College to rescind the report and take meaningful action in support |
| 1:19.9 | of racial justice. Background of the issue. In October 2020 I traveled from my home on the |
| 1:27.2 | Arkansas side of the Mississippi Delta to Grove City College. At the invitation of some faculty |
| 1:32.9 | and staff I gave a chapel presentation met with students of color met with the now defunct |
| 1:39.0 | diversity council with the college's president in attendance and gave a talk in the evening |
| 1:44.0 | about my book the color of compromise the truth about the American Church's complicity and racism. |
| 1:49.5 | Throughout my time on campus I found the students respectful, engaging, and inquisitive although some |
| 1:55.5 | it was clear did not agree with my statements about racism they did not seem to harbor any animosity |
| 2:01.7 | while I was present. Imagine my surprise when over a year later a group of concerned parents |
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