A Texas State University student journalist has been fired after his racist rant in their November column of the school paper.
Rudy Martinez, who regularly writes for The University Star, said that ‘white death will mean liberation for all,’ in his article titled ‘Your DNA is an abomination.’
His racist tirade began by saying he has only met a handful of white people who he would describe as ‘decent,’ KXAN reported.
A Texas State University student journalist, Rudy Martinez, has been fired after his racist rant in their November column of the school paper
This isn’t the first time Martinez has run into trouble. He was among the 230 people arrested in D.C. during Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2017 and tried to crowdfund for legal fees.
Among those arrested were journalists and innocent bystanders who were not rioting, Rudy being one of them. He is wrongfully facing rioting charges.
He then went on to say that white people are privileged and the world would be a better place if they were abolished.
‘The idea of whiteness and the way we currently understand it in which you have white privilege, you have our system of mass incarceration, you have a history of slavery in this country followed by Jim Crow,’ Martinez said.
President of Texas State, Denise M. Trauth, posted on the Texas State University’s Facebook page assuring people that these were not the views or opinions of the school
‘Mass incarceration is the new Jim Crow. These are all ideas born out of whiteness; they were born out of the minds of white people. So that, I do see as an aberration,’ he said.
He aggressively ended his piece with, ‘I hate you because you shouldn’t exist. You are both the dominant apparatus on the planet and the void in which all other cultures, upon meeting you, die.’
Unsurprisingly his article was met with shock from the paper’s editorial board who said, ‘The author of this column has jeopardized the atmosphere of inclusivity at this university and will no longer be published in The University Star,’ according to The College Fix.
They revealed the paper has received death threats and tons of hate mail since the article was published.
Despite the backlash Martinez (pictured) has no regrets, ‘Let’s leave the racist attacks out of this. I don’t think my piece is racist at all. I don’t think colored people can be racist, I think racist attitudes come from a position of power,’ he said
In addition, students have started a petition to defend the publication which has already been signed by 1,500 people.
President of Texas State, Denise M. Trauth, assured people ‘The column’s central theme was abhorrent and is contrary to the core values of inclusion and unity that our Bobcat students, faculty, and staff hold dear.’
Despite the backlash Martinez has no regrets,
‘Let’s leave the racist attacks out of this. I don’t think my piece is racist at all. I don’t think colored people can be racist, I think racist attitudes come from a position of power,’ he said.
Martinez writes for The University Star at the Texas State University (pictured)