<p>Although I am a white female, I am in the minority at my (majority minority) inner-city school. I deal with racial issues and questions in my school on a weekly basis. I feel that I have greatly benefited from this experience and I would not change a thing. However, I feel comfortable going to a campus such as Wake. I have learned the importance of diversity of skin color and believe that it should not be ignored, BUT I have learned something far greater. To truely benefit from diversity of culture, race, religion, etc. we have to be able to step outside of our comfort zones. We can only be affected by this diversity if we want to be… If you choose to become involved in forming relationships with those different from you, it doesn’t matter whether there are 1,000 or 10,000 minorities, or whether there are 1,000 or 10,000 Caucasians. Stop viewing people as statistics and start seeing the numbers as individuals for you to interact with. This generation will not gain anything by trying to “self-segregate”, as mojo suggests. I experience these attitudes everyday - they are dangerous and are getting us nowhere. Hopefully we can all work on embracing those around us next year a whatever college we choose.</p>
<p>mojo - I thought that you might be interested in reading the Student Body President’s (he is black, by the way) position <a href=“http://www.wfu.edu/~mathrm2/platform.html[/url]”>http://www.wfu.edu/~mathrm2/platform.html</a> … notice the first two words.</p>