MOSAIC: Flashbacks of the Past

As the first few weeks of school at San Jose State University are in the books, I recalled some of the events that happened at SJSU. If anyone did recall, you may have heard an event that shocked many SJSU students - recalling that a black male student was chained using a bicycle "U" lock. Four white males converged on the black student and purposely assaulted the victim.

That was part of the topic at MOSAIC's event, which was nearly two hours long which also involved Spartan Daily reporter Lauren Hernandez. I asked her on her thoughts of the presentation and she thought that it was informative. And yes it was. In a two-hour presentation, Yesi Ramos and Latu Tapaatoutai sparked a long discussion on Colorblind, as well as racism and how it affects SJSU. In one of the slides, an official report was released soon after the hate crime attack, but left out the identity of the victim in order to minimize the chances of another hate crime. 

Many news reports were aggressive and trying to find answers on what was happening inside the one of the dorm rooms at SJSU. many comments were poured into social media and on news' websites. Most students were not so happy, feeling that more action was needed to protect students from hate crime. SJSU is not free from victim attacks, ranging from a student being a victim of an attack by someone that is not an SJSU student to hate crime in the dorms. 

The most devastating crime so far in my SJSU school years is some kind of shooting in one of the garages, which SJSU's Update News was reporting for about three minutes of the crime inside 10th Street Garage, which happened a few years ago. 

My interview with Lauren Hernandez also sparked some fun that we both interviewed each other! And it was definitely great since I do get a chance to participate in voicing my opinions, just like Lauren is doing so for my blog. Well, I give Lauren some cheers for her great work, despite that I'm an English major.

Original Work: Kyle Chak

Twitter: @KyleSChak