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Recognition is validation.
Minorities want to be heard and know that their issues are validated. If you aren't correct, you will be corrected. Prior to the forum, members of Drake's Coalition of Black Students had been seeking an apology from The Times-Delphic. Kobsa, a native Croatian and member of CBS, was also on the panel at the forum. I don't believe that when we made that decision that we would fully appreciate how it would be interpreted, being that we understood why that decision was made.