Black freshmen are fighting back against Internet comments by sorority members who say black students don’t get bids because they are ‘aesthetically unpleasing to the eye.’
While it wasn’t a newly cut sequel to that dubiously acclaimed indy flick Dear White People, it did end up as the most in-your-face sample of college campus bigotry that student Layla Evette could ever ask for.
Not that she did ask for it: Evette was just an undergraduate at Southern Methodist University, trying to get by while being black at a predominantly white institution in the middle of Texas.
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The entire U.S. will become the HOOD under Obama. It's his plan of action.
ReplyDeleteShe should try "getting by" at an HBCU, if she were white. It wouldn't just be the crass comments of a few too-snooty sorority prigs.
ReplyDeleteIt would be the thorough, administration-approved agenda of suppression and denial of her culture, heritage and racial validation as an individual. From discriminatory admission policies to the prohibition of activities celebrating her heritage, to classes teaching intolerance and revisionist history, I think she'd find sororities whose "mission" is to advocate for and "empower" whites above others, to be the very least of her worries.
It isn't necessary to be black to recognize that it is far easier and less demoralizing, to assimilate into a "white" school, than a white student at a "black" school.
Yes, those were some unkind and unladylike comments. But there are sororities who likewise reject white girls whom they don't feel are "pretty" enough. They are not the kind of people I'd want to associate with, anyway, so no big loss, in my opinion.