Comments on: Is this true?

By: Rebel Yell

Rebel Yell — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 02:18:34 +0000

Man, you just have no idea. I agree with Gordo - ask your co-workers. Sometime you need to visit my Civil War blog. I haven’t been able to update it recently, but as soon as I get the chance, it will be.

By: gordo

gordo — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:33:37 +0000

Yes, overt racism of a certain type is not “respectable” and the wearing of white sheets is pretty universally scorned, but if it were not for the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Act, the Fair Housing Act, etc. how different would things really be. In other words, have people really changed or are they just obeying the law?

I would still strongly recommend you ask your co-workers what they feel.

By: Barbara H.

Barbara H. — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:31:37 +0000

Dr. Bob said much the same thing in his interview with Larry King when he dropped the policy. Here is an excerpt:

KING: Why can’t black kids date white kids?

JONES: OK.

KING: Because you didn’t take black kids for a long time, right?

JONES: Well, 50 percent of American colleges as late as the mid- 1960s still didn’t take black students, so…

KING: But you were late?

JONES: 1970, so we weren’t that late. Furman (ph) University in our town took their first black I believe it was in ‘65, Clemson in ‘63. So, you know, we were not exclusive in this by any means.

KING: But will you admit, as Jerry Falwell has said, you were wrong, you should have taken them?

JONES: Yes, we do. We do, of course we do.

From http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0003/03/lkl.00.html

Also, an article interviewing BJ’s first black student is here: http://www.bju.edu/collegian/index.php?content=article&article_id=20&issue_volume=17&issue_number=9

I agree that the situation is much better than it was in the 60s, though there is still a long way to go in society.

By: Blog Jones

Blog Jones — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 03:07:06 +0000

I imagine they’d know more instances of racism than I would, but the fact is that things are infinitely better today than they were thirty years ago. There’s been a tremendous amount of progress made: society has gone from regarding black people as second class citizens, even down to separate bathrooms and water fountains and bus seats, to regarding them as equals.

I won’t deny that there are still problems with racism in our society, both with implicit, unconscious racism among respectable people and explicit, blatant racism among lowlife scum like the KKK, but it’s certainly no longer a respectable worldview.

By: gordo

gordo — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 02:04:13 +0000

When I was there from 1976 - 1980 there was one black male - he was in my society - Phi Beta. He was a married town student.

Jeremy - I would challenge you to ask your black co-workers if they agreed with you that racism has quickly fallen off.