What's wrong in Alaaaaa-BAMA!
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September 19th, 2013
Hundreds of students, teachers and local residents gathered Wednesday at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, the setting of one of the most famous segregation protests of the 1960s, to protest the exclusion of black students from white fraternities and sororities.
The silent march across the school grounds came two days after university officials acknowledged that “decisions were made based on race” in THIS YEAR’S sorority recruitment process and ordered changes.
http://news.msn.com/us/marchers-protest-segregation-at-ala-sorority-houses
Do you think racism will ever end?
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The surprise is not that racism exists.
The surprise is that a couple of hundred students had the guts to demonstrate.
Wow, this drew one answer? That’s surprising.
Jocular subject line doesn’t suggest a question with serious intent.
@Jeruba We go back a long ways. WTF? If I’m wrong jerk my chain. Please.
It will end when we fuck so much that we are all the same colour. Black Obama, end of racism. That isn’t the case.
All we can do is slowly improve. Racism will always be here. Imagine Twitter in 1953 and a black woman winning miss america.
Luckily it is slowly getting better. But it is still there. It will be a long hard slog until we are all the same shade. Then we will just shit on people that wear glasses so we can feel superior to the four-eyes.
@johnpowell Exactly. Even if we were all the same color, we’d find other ways of segregating ourselves along the lines of money, background, education, politics, physical appearance, etc. It wouldn’t necessarily be racism then, but it would serve the purpose.
Were they rejected purely on their race? That’s pretty awful, and I agree with @elbanditoroso it is shocking they have the chutzpah to actually demonstrate. I don’t think it will end very soon in some parts of our country. Fraternities and sororities were pretty segregated at my school from what I remember (I was not in the Greek system) I don’t know how it is now. I wonder if across the country they tend to be pretty segregated? Or, I hate to use the word segregated, but just by some sort of default be predominantly white on most campuses? Except for black fraternities, I assume there are black fraternities. We had a Jewish frat on my campus, that I know for sure, I assume it still exists. Maybe this demonstration will call some attention to the Greek system. I think they mostly look for people who culturally fit into their group? If someone on the Q knows more about that it would be interesting to know their take on how people are chosen.
Not sure what you’re asking, @Adirondackwannabe. I was responding to your question about why there’d been only one answer, suggesting that the title sounded like a joke and might not attract the desired attention to a serious question.
In other words, the title doesn’t help bring together a real question and the people who might try to answer it.
A question works best, I think, if the subject line gives a fair clue to the content—otherwise people who aren’t interested will skip it.
@Jeruba My bad. I misread or misunderstood your answer.
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