IV 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 86 
Condemning the racist and hate-based attacks on our college campuses and 
reaffirming our support for inclusion and safety in our institutions of 
higher learning. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 25, 2017 
Ms. WILSON of Florida (for herself, Ms. SEWELL of Alabama, Mr. ELLISON, 
Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. RUSH, Ms. LEE, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. 
LEWIS of Georgia, Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. 
HASTINGS, Mr. CLEAVER, Mr. CLAY, Mr. BUTTERFIELD, Mr. VEASEY, 
Ms. JACKSON LEE, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. LAWSON of Florida, Mr. THOMPSON 
of Mississippi, Mr. CLYBURN, Mr. AL GREEN of Texas, Mr. MCEACHIN, 
Ms. FUDGE, Ms. CLARKE of New York, Mr. RICHMOND, Ms. BASS, and 
Ms. KELLY of Illinois) submitted the following concurrent resolution; 
which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Condemning the racist and hate-based attacks on our college 
campuses and reaffirming our support for inclusion and 
safety in our institutions of higher learning. 
Whereas, on April 30, 2017, a fraternity at Baylor University 
sponsored a ‘‘Mexican-themed’’ party replete with a bor-
der wall and offensive Mexican stereotypes; 
Whereas, on April 30, 2017, a homophobic slur appeared on 
a fence near the Central Campus building at Duke Uni-
versity; 
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Whereas, on May 20, 2017, Lt. Collins was stabbed to death 
in an unprovoked attack at a bus stop on the campus of 
the University of Maryland, College Park; 
Whereas his attacker, Sean Christopher Urbanski, had an as-
sociation with an Alt-Right White supremacist group 
named ‘‘Alt Reich: Nation’’; 
Whereas a noose was hung from a tree on the campus of 
American University, on the day the student body elected 
its first African-American president; 
Whereas Adolf Hitler themed Valentine’s Day cards reading 
‘‘my love 4 u burns like 6,000 Jews’’ circulated around 
Central Michigan University campus; 
Whereas such incidents are the latest in an escalating rise in 
hate-motivated activities on college campuses targeting 
racial and religious minorities, foreign nationals, phys-
ically challenged and the LGBT community; 
Whereas a rising number of nationalist, racist, homophobic, 
neo-Nazi and White supremacist organizations have ex-
panded and intensified their outreach strategies to grow 
their influence and networks on college campuses; 
Whereas these strategies include fliers, online organizing, so-
cial media campaigns, events with national leaders, and 
efforts to insert a physical presence on college campuses 
to attract protest and media coverage; 
Whereas these strategies led to the recent deadly chaos in the 
college town of Charlottesville, responsible for the loss of 
the young life of Heather Heyer protesting the White su-
premacist and neo-Nazi rally; 
Whereas the moral equivalency and lack or principles in the 
response from the Administration following the Char-
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lottesville attack could further embolden and legitimize 
hate-based activities across the Nation; 
Whereas we must not allow the freedom of speech protected 
by the Constitution and upheld by United States Con-
gress to be used as cover for hate-based activities and 
crimes; and 
Whereas the United States House of Representatives must 
come together and address the pressing issues leading to 
these heinous actions and tragic losses: Now, therefore, 
be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That Congress— 
(1) condemns the increased harassment and vi-
olence targeted at students because of their racial, 
ethnic, religious, and sexual background; 
(2) identifies the elaborate and persistent ef-
forts by extremist organizations to influence and re-
cruit young people and the normalization of hate- 
based activities through moral equivalencies, political 
equivocacies and platitudes about free speech; 
(3) recognizes the efforts by staff at institutions 
of higher learning and law-enforcement personnel to 
respond to violence, extremism and racism and pro-
tect all members of the community from harm and 
hate; and 
(4) remains actively committed to creating safe, 
tolerant, and respectful learning environments that 
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