Harvard Pre-Med Student Quits School After Professor Blocks Discussion About Breonna Taylor Case Before Exam
A black Harvard premedical student quit school and referred to the incident as a “great act of resistance” which was caused by her professors refusal to discuss the Breonna Taylor case prior to an exam.
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Kyla Golding is a Harvard Crimson editorial editor and recently stated she left the university due to the “silence and avoidance between myself and my educators when it comes to black women’s lives,” she wrote in an article Friday.
“I took an inorganic chemistry exam the same day that a grand jury failed to charge two police officers with the murder of Breonna Taylor. That day, my body inhaled molecules of white supremacy as they seeped out of my computer from that proctored Zoom room,” Golding shared. “They entered my bloodstream and catalyzed a metabolism that would allow for the invasion of my body by a violently infectious life form.”
Golding added that “chronic pain, caused by the perpetuation of lethally unjust practices and compounded by the silence and avoidance between myself and my educators when it comes to black women’s lives, would make its way through and onto neighboring cells within my physical being.”
Breonna Taylor was a medical worker who was killed in March 2020 due to a mistaken raid on her home. Former Louisville detective Brett Hankison, who was connected to the raid pleaded not guilty and no charges were brought against him.
Golding ended off her article by saying, “I have chosen a path to justice and healing that is rooted in self-love and preservation,” she ended.