I heard this from a friend...

dobiesk8r
Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:10:20 +0000

I’m offended that people assume that just because we have a biracial president means that an “old south” school like W&L is the picture perfect model for culturally integrated college campus.



First, thank you for sharing your experience. But the way you chose to interpret what I said about the election of Obama is incorrect. I certainly don’t assume anything of the kind.

I said that there is prejudice everywhere if you look for it - even at a racially diverse school, I would bet. But if a racially diverse school is important to a student, why would he or she look at W&L? Indeed, most small LACs are predominantly white - at least based on the many that I have seen.

Personally I do not believe that prejudice is ever going to go away. Sadly it is a human characteristic to be wary of what is different. But we have come amazingly far, based upon the election of Obama. I’ve seen a lot in my life - remember, I was at college during the Reagan years, a man who was elected by pandering to the old south and “states rights”. You can imagine how he was skewered on a liberal college campus, but he was still the man that the majority of the country elected - twice. Sorry if it makes me happy to see a very different kind of man elected now.