racial dynamics in college

tiff90
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:00:28 +0000

I live in a very racially diverse city, and race relations are strained. I wore a McCain shirt to vote and was called racist, after two local girls gave told me how George Bush was really behind 9/11. All but 2 crimes that have been reported to my school the past three years were committed by minorities, which strains race relations.

In terms of the school: they throw money at underqualified minorities while more qualified whites don’t get any merit aid. The minority students tend to struggle, and are only friends with people in their race (except for the athletes). You can’t discuss any type of race based issue without being accused of being racist. Race groups are extremely sensitive, and the school goes out of its way to seem edgy and diverse like the ivies. The new right thing that the ivies are starting is racial diversity in schools, and my school jumps on board because they dream about being mentioned in the same breath as MIT.

Students get along with eachother for the most part, I have a racially diverse friends, but the city and school policies hurt race relations. It’s the fallout to schools focusing so much on racial diversity instead of intellectual diversity, and a lot of students are bitter about it but too afraid to raise their concerns. Raising concerns about diversity initiatives makes you intolerant and close minded, so basically there’s all this resent floating around.