I think schools need to step up the effort to increase the dialogue between students of different races. Most of us will never know what it’s like to be followed around a store, stopped for DWB, or have someone call the police because you were ‘loitering’ in their neighborhood (when you actually live there.) It happens every day to your black class-mates and there is a rage that comes with the lack of recognition of how humiliating, frequent and frightening being viewed as a dangerous ‘other’ can be. Until those of us who are part of the majority can acknowledge the real damage that is being done to the minorities among us, there is little chance of real change. Intramural sports just isn’t going to cut it.
If you want to read a really powerful book, check out Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy. A tough read but an important one.