Amherst Uprising's Demands

AsleepAtTheWheel
Tue, 08 Dec 2015 02:30:32 +0000

@OHMomof2 – I was trying to be a bit provocative, but in retrospect I was wrong posting the article on an Amherst thread. It really has little to do with Amherst, and my note was more appropriate for one of the many threads on the Parents Forum discussing these issues.

That said, I think that you may have me pegged wrong. I do think that African-American kids at Amherst and similar schools have a much rougher go of it than the other kids, and clearly the resources that are necessary to help them aren’t there. Being a college freshman or sophomore away from home in a stressful environment is difficult emotionally for a lot of kids, but it’s more so for these kids, and I feel for them. I’m not sure that the remedies that they’re proposing are the right ones, and I have difficulty accepting that it’s racist for anyone who is not a POC to weigh in on what the best solutions may be. But I in no way deny the problem, and I would be thrilled if it could be solved to these students’ satisfaction, so they could feel fulfilled academically and personally while they’re at Amherst.