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	"author_name": "Chloe Wen",
	"author_url": "https://actionnetwork.org/users/carnegie-mellon-student-body/profile",
	"title": "Confronting Racial Prejudice at CMU",
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	"description": "Carnegie Mellon continuously participates in and contributes to actions and institutions that harm the Black communities in which it is embedded and from which it has benefited. This includes Heinz College’s Predictive Policing project, CMU’s recent erasure of Black neighborhoods for almost a decade through official university marketing materials, the legacy of the gentrification of Oakland and Hazelwood, and insufficient attention to its diversity issue. Predictive Policing: In addition to the presence of the City of Pittsburgh police officers on CMU’s campus, CMU has a history of research investment that aids and abets the Pittsburgh police. Since 2016, CMU’s Metro21: Smart Cities Institute has provided $600,000 in grant funding from the Richard King Mellon Foundation to develop and deploy so-called “predictive policing” algorithms that PBP has been using to determine where to send additional patrols. These algorithms have been banned in other cities because they reproduce and amplify racist policing practices, often without transparency, oversight, or accountability. Erasure/Gentrification: CMU has fueled gentrification and expansion over the concerns of residents for years, most recently through the Mon-Oakland Connector, a high-tech gentrification project only benefitting CMU that has been met with consistent and loud resident opposition. This type of resident-exclusive tech development fuels gentrification and displacement, exacerbating a history of redlining that created racially-based wealth inequities in Pittsburgh. Put together with CMU’s predictive policing project, which cites the flawed broken windows policing strategy as its inspiration, CMU is complicit in the over-policing, criminalization, and displacement of those same under-resourced neighborhoods. Lack of Attention to Diversity Issues: Like many institutions, CMU has its own share of issues concerning diversity, but despite the presence of the Center for Diversity &amp;amp; Inclusion, many students still report experiences of racial prejudice. There is very little attention drawn to minority groups and their resources; events such as Celebration of Diversity weekends and Origins are very poorly advertised and groups for minorities -- SPIRIT, SCDI, NSBE, to name a few -- do not feel supported by the CMU community. In addition, the Center for Diversity and Inclusion is literally underground, tucked away in the basement of the university center. Though CMU has released messages acknowledging racism as a general problem, it fails to point out its current shortcomings in diversity and the fight for racial justice. For example, it consistently fails to acknowledge the lack of Black staff and extremely low percentages of minority populations (6% of the class of 2023 is Black, 8% is “Hispanic”). In addition, their description of the class of 2023 as “15% African American, Latino, or Native American” exemplifies not only its attitude towards minority students, simply grouping them together into one group, but also the unacceptably low numbers of minority students.",
	"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/confronting-racial-prejudice-at-carnegie-mellon-university"
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