Texas State University Op-Ed Declares Whiteness An Abomination

SAN MARCOS, TX — An op-ed penned by a Texas State University student that declared white people to be an abomination has been pulled after igniting a firestorm of angry protests from alumni, donors, and parents of prospective students.

The column, which ran on Nov. 28, was written by student Rudy Martinez, who blamed white people for many of the historic and societal ills in the U.S. and the world.

“When I think of all the white people I have ever encounter — whether they’ve been professors, peers, lovers, friends, police officers, et cetera — there is perhaps only a dozen I would consider “decent,” Martinez wrote

“Whiteness will be over because we want it to be. And when it dies, there will be millions of cultural zombies aimlessly wandering across a vastly changed landscape,” he wrote.

Martinez, who has since been removed from the staff, used the opinion platform at the University Star to refer to President Donald Trump as a white supremacist, police officers as fascist foot soldiers, and white people in general as as builders of an oppressive world that was coming to an end.

A day after the column ran, Texas State University President Denise Trauth expressed her disappointment in the publication’s Op-Ed piece, calling the central theme of the opinion piece “abhorrent and contrary to the core values,” of the university.

“As president of a university that celebrates its inclusive culture, I detest racism in any manifestation,” Trauth said in a statement on the Texas State University website. “While I appreciate that the Star is a forum for students to freely express their opinions, I expect student editors to exercise good judgment in determining the content that they print.”

The editorial board of the University Star, issued a statement of their own on Thursday apologizing for the hatred of the column, and admitting they were wrong.

“We fully acknowledge the repercussions of our actions in allowing for such an incendiary and divisive column to make it into print,” the statement read. “We were unequivocally wrong in printing it. It was neither constructive nor appropriate. We failed our readership and damaged Texas State’s profound tradition of inclusivity. Although it will take time and hard work to restore, that tradition is something that we will work tirelessly to uphold and rebuild.”

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