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Board should be ashamed
I am a white student at SCSU. I am 20 years old. I come from a city in Montana that has very little diversity of any kind and is comparable to most Minnesota towns in the close-minded department. Due to the circumstances of my background, I have come to the conclusion that I am in no position to be telling well-seasoned, intelligent, black professors what the best way to fight racism is. I don't think anyone from similar circumstances to mine (being white especially) is in that position either. I also have not and will never experience the brunt of racism.
I personally find it utterly intolerable for three white, home-grown Minnesotans to take their soap-box, editorial columns and tell these three professors that SCSU is not as racist as they think and that we should encourage lots of minorities to come here, at the expense of their emotional health, to make our white experience a bit less white. Then we can all live peacefully in our diverse little world and hold hands! Meanwhile, (keep in mind our not-so-racist university) a few columns over we have Justin Turcotte (a senior who evidently missed out on the enlightening MGM experience) spouting off about cultural student groups and GLBT students getting all of his hard-earned money. His funds would obviously be much better spent on the next showing of "Dude, Where's my Car" and some beer!
The moral of the story here is that the staff of the (University) Chronicle, the SCSU campus, the St. Cloud community, the state of Minnesota, and maybe the country heard what Michael Davis, Tamrat Tademe, and Myrle Cooper had to say. So Tracy, Christine and Michael, as soon as you have lived, breathed, researched, fought and dedicated your life to the struggle to end all racism, maybe someone will care what you have to say. Until then, maybe you should take one extra MGM so you can feel good about yourself in your happy, diverse little world in which you once were friends with someone from Malaysia.
Jamie Wyman
Junior
Psychology
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