While working at Georgia State School, Alexandria Parham (Patterson) signed a letter in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, backing the campus protests. This endorsement contributed to a wave of violent demonstrations and pushed for policies like defunding the police and adopting a soft stance on crime, which are hallmarks of radical Leftist agendas.

“We are writing this letter both as members of the Black community and as faculty members at Georgia State University. Across a continuum of disciplines, many of us are scholars whose teaching, research and writing examines, interrogates and translates the racially discriminatory treatment of Black people that predates the founding of the United States and continues full force into the present. We live the experience of being Black in America, and in that regard submit this letter as an expression of solidarity with those who are using their bodies in visceral objection to the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and countless other Black victims of racial violence whose lives did not matter to some. A number of units and deans at Georgia State University and at other institutions have issued statements addressing the public’s response to pervasive police violence and enduring white supremacist structures and systems, and we felt compelled to write this letter from our unique perspective as African descended people.

We express our sincerest sympathies for the victims of police violence and for their families and friends who, while grieving the loss of their loved ones, must fight for justice in the criminal legal system. We stand with protestors in cities across the nation and around the world exercising their right to petition their government for redress and demanding anti-racist policies and laws that will acknowledge Black people’s humanity. We share the anger and pain caused by centuries of killing, mutilation, and exploitation of Black people and other acts of violence that they have been expected to endure without complaint. We are outraged that necessary responses to the consistent dearth of consequences and accountability for perpetrators of racial violence (explicit and implicit)are challenged as inappropriate or incomprehensible. We are awed by the audacity of young people, so outraged and victimized by sustained injustice, that they are risking exposure to a deadly

disease, to protest an unabating pandemic of racism and racial violence.”

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