Seeking Justice

Becoming comfortable with the unknown

By John Turner • May 4, 2021

Passions and interests change and that should be welcomed. Sticking to a plan that no longer serves you is only doing more harm to you.

Column: Cancel culture needs to be canceled

By John Turner • April 21, 2021

Even the worst of the worst should have the chance for redemption. I stand by this. No one is so far gone that they cannot be redeemed.

Recentering the conversation

By John Turner • March 17, 2021

The number of BIPOC faculty being cut is not the only issue. Racist professors still having a job and being protected by tenure needs to be addressed.

Becoming numb to injustice

By John Turner • March 3, 2021

But my numbness has come from years of seeing people that look like me perpetually abused by a country that was built on our backs.

Let Black girls exist freely

By John Turner • February 12, 2021

To combat this issue on an individual level, those who are not Black women need to engage in purposeful learning to understand their implicit biases.

Coronavirus does not justify racism

By John Turner • February 13, 2020

This state of mind is toxic because it allows xenophobia to take center stage instead of the well-being of those affected being the main priority. 

Racism does not exempt royals

By John Turner • January 23, 2020

The royal family has always been an enigma. Although their lives are rather public, there is also a part of them that those on the outside do not get to see. Many are aware of the scandals that have surrounded...

Muslims face global injustice

By John Turner • December 11, 2019

Generally, the only time Muslim people are covered in the media is when they are linked to an act of terror.

Rodney Reed deserves justice

By John Turner • November 13, 2019

The foundation of the U.S. prison system is racism, so the administration of the death penalty was bound to be racist as well. 

The criminalization of black girlhood

By John Turner • October 30, 2019

For centuries, black girls and women have been criminalized, dehumanized, hypersexualized, degraded, objectified and stereotyped.

Free Mauna Kea

By John Turner • October 9, 2019

For centuries, native and indigenous communities have been rendered invisible at the hands of white “explorers” and colonizers.

Faculty of color needed in Park

By John Turner • September 26, 2019

There is an extreme lack of ethnic diversity represented throughout the staff and faculty at the college.