| I find it funny that I need to cut and paste my response to this issue several times a year, so here goes.
Jtm4499 & Venado, that article was from 3 years ago. I think the true test of character is not based on what happens to you, but how you react. And that can be said also with institutions. When a racist incident happened then on Grounds, what was UVA’s reaction? The entire school acted energetically and transparently against racism - meaning instead of trying to railroad or conceal anything that might damage UVA's image, the University community instead stood up and made public the incidents as well as its outrage - from rallies & vigils, to President Casteen making a video decrying all intolerance, to student organizations and the Faculty Senate making public declarations of condemnation, to the Alumni Association offering money to bring the culprits to justice, to students painting Beta Bridge, wearing black t-shirts instead of orange ones at football games as well as wearing black ribbons around Grounds - ALL THIS - to say that racism has no place at UVa.
Google "racist acts on college campuses", and you will find articles about racist incidents at Yale, Columbia, Penn State, and other schools throughout the entire US. If you're afraid of racism, don't leave your house. That's probably the only place in the world where you won't have to deal with it. |