Racism at UCSC

CCsiteObsessed
Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:10:17 +0000

I am a Person of Color who attended UCSC when dinosaurs roamed the earth. I never cease to be amazed that the image/reputations of the various colleges remain the same, although of course Colleges 9/10 weren’t around then. I eventually transferred from Stevenson to Merrill, basically due to the racial cluelessness of folks at Stevenson. I would never expect to see racial intolerance at UCSC. But race and racial and ethnic issues have a lot of complexity and nuance, and I never felt that Stevenson and my white friends there ever got it. I suppose the same could be said about LBGTQQIA issues and a number of the colleges, but since I am just a straight ally, I will leave others to comment.