To Black Students at WIMA

by Black Ink

Six Black seventh graders at Washtenaw International Middle Academy (WIMA) were sent racist threats by an anonymous emailer last week. In response, high schoolers at Washtenaw International High School (WIHI), which shares a building with WIMA, staged a sit-in to call attention to the racism they experience in their school. A judge declined to issue a warrant that would allow detectives to pin the emailer’s IP address to a physical address, so Black students at the schools are left with a burden of anxiety that they ought not have to bear.

Poet Darius Simpson reached out with words of support for the Black students at WIMA:

 

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Illustrated by JHC