Isolated Cases (Ann Speaking)
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				Fred

I think you're description of the situation is mistaken and misleading. This incident is not isolated and these individuals are not all that unusual.

Over the past few years, there has been a dramatic (and well documented) increase in the number of racial incidents on campuses. Hundreds of cases of verbal harassment have occurred. And that's not all. There have been signs posted in classrooms making it clear that black students are not welcome. There have been racial caricatures put on walls and posters, Confederate flags hung from windows, 'Harlem' parties and 'jungle' parties where white students wear blackface. There have even been death threats.

There's too much of this sort of thing to dismiss it as individual idiosyncrasy or just the work of a few bad apples. If we define it that way, we won't see the larger picture. This incident is closely related to a context that influences lots of students.

Your view fits your conservative politics, Fred. You don't want to see this as part of a larger picture because if we do that we may have to do something to change the picture. That means more campus regulations, more sensitivity training, more programs to increase the number of black students and faculty. In short, it means all the things you don't want.

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