It was ominous, creepy, chilling. After a night where hundreds of students protested in solidarity with African-Americans all around the country, the students of the University of Iowa woke up to a seven foot statue in the shape of a Ku Klux Klan member. The statue was supposed to be a form of protest, it was made of newspaper killings criticizing violence against blacks from the past. However that was lost on most students; many saw the statue as a threat, or warning. After 6 hours of a social media firestorm and hundreds of angry and confused students the University of Iowa finally decided to ask the artist to take the statue down. This lead to a domino effect of further bad decisions of the part of the University.
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