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Students from across the spectrum of color and ethnicity came together Wednesday night to discuss campus ethnic organizations in a town hall meeting organized by the Black Students Association (BSA) in response to a recent column published in The Crimson...
...dwelling on the collective tragedies of the white race, and retreating into the ranks of my white brethren fails to provide me with adequate comfort. As a result, I’ve come up with the revolutionary idea of white integration. Up until now, it has been racial and ethnic minorities enjoying the delightful process of integration, it’s about time that I get in on the excitement...
...didn’t always think this way. I thought I would find myself at home in the halls of white supremacy. It was just another on a long list of injustices against the white race when I found that for everyone except me, there were ethnic organizations like the Asian-American Association, the Black Men’s Forum, and Fuerza Latina. Why did everyone else have to self-segregate themselves and leave me out in cold? Why couldn’t colors and cultures just be erased to force conformity with the dominant race? The more I thought...
...self-separation, as opposed to self-segregation, because segregation is imposed, whereas separation is a choice. Self-separation is a choice about power, a choice that ethnic and racial organizations make when they choose to organize “self-segregated” groups and empower themselves through cultural expression, political action, and social networking. Such revelations led me to attend meetings, participate in their constant discourse, and even work for some of their causes. Whites fight to give their children wealth, while minorities fight to give their children rights. Is not their choice to separate of the noblest quality...
...makes many pressing causes of the day seem to not be our own, and only getting involved in these organizations and communities can make us understand how we fit into the solution. All we have to do is start simple. There are no racial restrictions to any of the ethnic organizations on campus. Attend a meeting. I have myself have attended many a meeting to emerge unscathed. We have to attempt the process of integration ourselves before we can ask even more of it from others. The quest for the perfection of the self is endless, but the pursuit...