{"id":1679,"date":"1986-10-30T02:05:23","date_gmt":"1986-10-30T02:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2018-10-31T13:57:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T17:57:11","slug":"racist-messages-deface-steps-to-lilly-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/1986\/10\/30\/racist-messages-deface-steps-to-lilly-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Racist messages deface steps to Lilly Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">October 30, 1986<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Racist messages deface steps to Lilly Hall<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Racist messages were discovered at 8:45 a.m. on the steps of Lilly Hall, home of the Smith College Cultural Center. Physical Plant staff members quickly arrived at the scene, and by 9:20 a.m., the messages had mostly been washed away. The incident shocked much of campus, but some students claimed that even though this was a blatant example, \u201cracism has always existed on this campus.\u201d In addition, the speed with which the messages were cleaned up was seen as negative by some students, who claimed the administration was just trying to \u201ccover it up\u201d and should let people see that there is racism at Smith.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The contents of the racist messages can be found<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1986.11.03.-Racist-slogans-painted-on-steps-of-Lilly-Hall-1-e1538923045500.jpg\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>[Last updated on October 31, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 30, 1986 Racist messages deface steps to Lilly Hall Racist messages were discovered at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[67,76],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1980s","tag-67","tag-hate-incident","entry","grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2398,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions\/2398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}