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Embracing Discomfort: Abeer Tijani Envisions 'New USC' Built on Empathy AILY ROJAN DWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2020 | STUDENT NEWSPAPER OFT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SINCE 1912 | VOL. 201, NO. 3 Embracing discomfort: Abeer Tijani envisions ‘new USC’ built on empathy Heading into her final year, Tijani looks to enact change on campus, not for herself, but for students who attend the University after her. By DAILY TROJAN STAFF Anonymous submissions to the @black_at_usc page, an Instagram Growing up in Irving, Texas, one account that shares unheard stories of of the most diverse zip codes in the Black Trojans, alleged Fritz of making United States, Abeer Tijani sought a racist and microaggressive remarks similar community when she came to against Black students. Soon after the USC. Watching YouTube videos from posts circulated online, Tijani created USC students like Katherout and Justin and spread a petition requesting his Escalona, she imagined herself fitting resignation from USG. Following a lack into the USC ecosystem almost imme- of response from Fritz and Ritch, Tijani diately and fell in love with the campus filed a formal impeachment complaint through her laptop screen. As she was against them a few days later on July 1. taking her first steps on Trousdale dur- Following the complaint and increased ing her senior year of high school, the pressure from students, Fritz resigned first word she thought of was home. in early July. Ritch resigned Aug. 5. Applying in December, she earned a During her efforts calling for the re- full-tuition merit scholarship — a cir- moval of Fritz and Ritch, Tijani con- cumstance she described as fate and sulted with Jaya Hinton, co-executive the best possible outcome she could director of the Black Student Assembly, have received. to understand USG bylaws regarding “My sophomore year of high school, the impeachment process since BSA is I was in this SAT prep class, and our an organization under the umbrella of first assignment was for us to look up student government. Serving as an in- a dream school and a school that we formal adviser to Tijani, Hinton spoke knew we could get into,” Tijani said. to her a few times a day to assist her in “And at that time, I didn’t really know understanding USG culture and struc- where I wanted to apply or anything. ture. Hinton said she admires Tijani’s But something in me was like, ‘I think determination and leadership in tack- living in California would be cool. I vis- ling issues she cares about and was im- pressed with what Tijani has accom- ited UCLA first and my mom actually Photo courtesy of Abeer Tijani really liked UCLA, but I was just kind of Tijani is one of the student leaders leading the efforts for a more inclusive and anti-racist campus. Her plished. “I know a lot of Black people were like ‘Eh, it’s fine, it’s cool.’ And then I vis- vision for a future USC is where “anti-racism is a core tenet” and the community is based on respect and comfort. ited USC and … I absolutely knew that [looking to her] for direction to what this was where I had to be.” “I think that a lot of the time with communicate issues across different “I think that they have been the they thought their next move was going Now a senior majoring in global social movements and advocacy, peo- cultural barriers or cultural circum- most clear cut example to me of how to be,” said Hinton, a rising junior ma- health, Tijani said her college experi- ple feel as though they can’t really do stances,” she said. “We really are so possible it is for an anti-racist world to joring in business administration. “She ence — although filled with friends and anything, or I think a lot of the times much more alike than we are differ- exist because I get to live in that world wasn’t cocky about it … She genuinely personal growth — cannot match up to we can feel really small when trying ent … there’s not that much that sepa- every single day, due to the people that wanted to make the school better.” the cliché of the college experience seen to tackle really big issues,” Tijani said. rates us as human beings from person I surround myself with,” Tijani said. Two days after Ritch’s resignation, in the movies However, Tijani believes “However, there comes a certain point to person. I wish people would realize “I have friends from literally all over Tijani’s social media messages were the way she’s grown would not have where you’re kind of forced to move to that more.” the world, from lots of different back- flooded with harassment from Zionist been the same had she attended anoth- action because something just either Wanting to connect more with the grounds and that have walked so many accounts accusing her of antisemi- er university. exacerbates you so much or shocks people around her, Tijani decided to different paths of life, and they have tism because of her efforts in Ritch’s Two days following the killing of you so much, or you have — at least for learn Spanish at the age of 14, so she absolutely made me a better person, a impeachment process. Although she George Floyd and amid a worldwide me — a physical, visceral reaction and would be able to communicate with thousand percent.” did not call for Ritch’s impeachment reckoning over racism, Tijani sat down you’re just kind of like ‘I don’t get it.’” one of her close friend’s mothers, an Alexis Timko, a junior majoring in based on her Jewish and Zionist identi- in front of a camera and called for her undocumented Mexican immigrant. journalism and law, history and cul- ty, Tijani issued an apology to pro-Isra- non-Black followers to educate them- Learning across barriers Spanish is now the third language that ture, recently met Tijani after watch- el students for any harm she may have selves, show up for Black people and From a young age, Tijani said her Tijani is close to fluent in, in addition to ing one of her IGTV videos and reached caused by focusing on Palestinian con- “do the right thing even if it makes you commitment to empathy and loving her native Nigerian language, Yoruba, out to ask if she could repost it on her cerns and condemned antisemitic at- uncomfortable.” Gathering the courage people came from her mother, who, be- and English. account. Since then, they have collabo- tacks against Ritch in an Instagram to deliver a message that would reso- fore anything else, taught Tijani to “see “I always told myself that ‘I’m going rated on creating a list of action items statement on June 27. Additionally, she nate with her friends and peers, she re- people as people … as opposed to com- to be able to learn this language that for Greek organizations. Only know- posted an IGTV July 7, the same day corded herself 10 times before releasing ing in with preconceived notions or ex- way to communicate with [her] and ing each other for the past three to four of Fritz’s resignation, urging students an IGTV video titled “What I need from pectations or stereotypes of how some- make [her]feel comfortable,’” Tijani months, Timko said Tijani has driven to focus their energy on learning from you” — a video that she also recorded in body should be.” Through her religious said. “I empathize fully with feeling like her to be a better person and is excit- the claims of racism and microaggres- Spanish. Also directed to her non-Black and collectivist cultural upbringing, you can’t express yourself properly in a ed to see the changes she will continue sions against him rather than resorting friends and followers on Instagram, she also said she learned to value her different language and wanting to be to make at USC. According to Timko, to “bullying.” a small community of people on her community. able to and wanting to reach out to this Tijani has engaged in her activism ef- “I would like to reiterate, once again, then-private account, Tijani discussed “Something that is a huge core te- other person.” forts without compensation — when that the allegations underlying my calls the urgency for them to engage in an- net in Islam is the sense of justice and Tijani continued to meet people the onus should not be on her as a Black for impeachment primarily implicated ti-racist efforts through the conversa- fighting for what’s right,” Tijani said. who inspired her in college. With as- woman — including a Greek life panel the microaggressions perpetrated by tions they were having with family and “The way that the religion was taught pirations to attend law school, Tijani Tijani put together in June. our former president against some of friends, and also within the communi- to me was that we’re not the only peo- was mentored by April Yang, a former “There are no words that accurately his [Black and Indigenous constituents ties that they were a part of. ple on Earth. We don’t share the Earth Gould School of Law student who en- describe all of the wonder, intelligence and constituents of color], as evidenced “We have to step outside of what we with just ourselves or our families, and couraged her and was someone she and delight that is Abeer Tijani,” Timko by the accounts shared anonymous- feel is comfortable in order to do what it’s absolutely important and impera- could bounce ideas off of.
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