So, early last week, so moron on the campus of local Hope College posts a flier for a mock fraternity with a message akin to the KKK's brand of hate. Naturally, the school board reacts, disciplining the student responsible and issuing some statement disavowing the whole thing. You can check that out here.
What that little report fails to tell you is that students were not only responding to the flier but also the college's response. The local paper, Holland Sentinel reported that students were at least responding to the wording of the college's statement, which signaled out the African-American students as gracing the campus. Now, the students are not of course protesting the idea that African-Americans are a valuable part of the student body. Rather, they are upset at the notion that they are more valuable. Essentially, they're saying "They are no different than us! We are all people and valuable!" Basically, they echo a statement that Morgan Freeman recently made on 60 minutes, which was basically, "If want to get rid of racism, stop talking about race all the time." Seems simple enough to me.
I'll grant that this seems a little overly sensitive on the part of the student body, but it still represents a way of looking at racial issues that I would like to see a lot more of.
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