{"id":588,"date":"2017-02-15T19:04:45","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T19:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.lvc.edu\/lavie\/?p=588"},"modified":"2017-02-15T19:04:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T19:04:45","slug":"students-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2017\/02\/15\/students-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Students protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dslc-theme-content\"><div id=\"dslc-theme-content-inner\"><p>By: Brianna Metsger \u201919, Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>Students and community members braved the rain to support Ricky Bugg, Sr. and the Dare 2 Care to Heal Racism Foundation in their goal to bring peace and love to Annville instead of hatred.<\/p>\n<p>This movement was in response to a recent racial incident at a local Annville restaurant involving Ricky Bugg, Jr., a junior business administration major.<\/p>\n<p>Bugg, Sr. spoke on the steps of the Frederic K. Miller Chapel to a small crowd about the movement and its importance, stressing that the protest would be absolutely peaceful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is so much that can be accomplished through love and hope,\u201d Bugg said. \u201cThose who want to take another route, God bless them, but that\u2019s not what I want to do; that\u2019s not what our movement is about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bugg also mentioned how racism is not something that we should have to deal with in 2017, but the racial incident and derogatory comments made towards the peaceful protest give reason to believe racism is still an issue in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>As the march came to a stop on the corner of U.S. Route 422 and PA Route 934, marchers held signs encouraging love over hate, and Ricky Bugg, Sr. spoke about his experiences with racism in his lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t something that just happened overnight; it\u2019s a process,\u201d Bugg said.\u201d \u201cI say to everyone, start where you are. It\u2019s okay if you deal with some racist feelings. Honesty is so important. I admire the person who can say, \u2018yes, I struggle with hate. Can we talk about it?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though some drivers rolled down their windows to shout disparaging comments, the movement still stood with peace, respect and love.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we have someone in our lives that struggles with [hate], all we can do is be the change we want to see,\u201d Bugg said. \u201cWe can only change ourselves. In the end, it\u2019s all about us working together, coming together, not being afraid of one another and supporting [love].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>bem004@lvc.edu<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By: Brianna Metsger \u201919, Staff Writer Students and community members braved the rain to support Ricky Bugg, Sr. and the Dare 2 Care to Heal Racism Foundation in their goal to bring peace and love <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2017\/02\/15\/students-protest\/\" title=\"Students protest\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"category-local-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}