Christian Bohorquez is a sophomore in the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences.

Sean Kumnick is the current Student Association undergraduate-at-large senator as well as the chairman of the Student Life Committee. Yesterday, in a Facebook post regarding club sports members who said the SA did not allocate enough funds for them to travel, Kumnick made the comment, “#MulticulturalsTookYourMoney.” This suggested that the multicultural community had somehow stolen club sports’ money.

Apparently, we have some work to do in assuring that the marginalized multicultural community at GW is fairly represented and not discriminated against by those who claim to be our “leaders” in the SA. The comments Kumnick made are racist, discriminatory and immature. Though he has attempted to apologize, the comments he made have no place in an organization responsible with representing the values of our entire community. Furthermore, the comments hurt the process of unifying our fragmented student body and make the multicultural community feel excluded and unwanted.

Therefore, I am calling on Kumnick to resign from his position on the Student Association.

The University has been plagued by some students’ privilege. In order for us to really be an inclusive and proudly diverse community, we need to give funding to organizations that attempt to give a voice to the underrepresented members of our university.

The diversity that GW administrators claim to cherish is a farce. The man who is responsible for representing the entire undergraduate community has failed at his duties.

For those who will say that this is an assault on an “open-exchange of ideas,” I say that racism and the insinuation that the multicultural community is a group of thieves is not eligible for an open-exchange of ideas. Bigotry should not be debated, discussed, or represented on the Student Association. You cannot adequately represent student life by denying those who wish to participate in that student life a voice.

I join the multicultural community in their open letter to the SA, but without Kumnick’s resignation or his removal from the SA, we cannot continue to claim that this Student Association really speaks for us.

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