A year has passed since the Malcolm X mural was ground away, Malcolm X's face and controversial messages replaced with dull gray paint on the Cesar Chavez Student Center.
But for many students, the feelings of pride, pain, fear, hate, anti-Zionism, anti-Judaism and oppression surrounding the mural are still very real.
This semester, we have watched the initial struggle to understand deteriorate, leaving hatred to fester in our student politics and student organizations.
The angry words those feelings inspire have continued to hurl back and forth between the Progressive Coalition, Student Struggle, Hillel, La Raza, ASU, PACE, GUPS, PASU, SKINS, various departments and the administration, until it's difficult to know which one believes what or why.
When are we going to be able to talk to one another about these difficult issues without spitting out such venomous words of hate?
When are we going to try to understand one another? No matter how different the other may be, no matter how crazy or wrong those other ideas may seem, we still have to exist together at this campus.
Hatred is wrong. Death threats are wrong.
No one is good dead.
Fighting will not resolve anything. We need to find another way to express our ideas and feelings so that we not only speak, but also listen.
When are we going to learn about each other instead of hate each other?
Can we strive to find understanding somehow?
A university is a place where people are supposed to gather to learn new concepts, explore history and social policy, gain exposure to different cultures in order to develop a well-rounded understanding.
But that's not happening.
Stop the hatred.