White trick-or-treaters in blackface: C/D?

it's seriously that low? that's fucking pathetic, esp. given its location.

this thread is all about hypothetical racism rather than actual racism.

NOT UNDERWEAR! DO THEY HAVE NO SHAME? Will no one think of the whale-tails?

what is this, the onion?

LOST AT BIRTH, RAISED BY THE DISCOMBOBULATED LEFT...

Students talked and listened to music. Some drank beer, a violation of university policy. in particular. but, also the concept of dressing up as a rape victim for halloween. not quite sure how that would be done. or, dressing up as a basketball player for...halloween! with ilx the way it is, sometimes i wonder if these threads are elaborate hoaxes

Things like that are a vicious cycle. Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed black prefrosh asks a current UC student what it's like. They say, "I like my classes, but there's all sorts of crap I have to deal with in other areas. If I had to choose again, I might go somewhere else." Prefrosh chooses somewhere else. Acceptance numbers fall. Etc.

xpost yeah, totally, although do you really think it's cause of lack of interest?

u of c ain't that liberal, but yeah, it is on the SOUTH SIDE.

"white boy" is a racial slur now?

xpost - not UIC, allyzay, U of C. i doubt UIC has such pitiful numbers.

yeah, it's certainly low compared to, say, Columbia, whose endowment isn't that much bigger than UoC's, but most or all of the Ivies have higher yields (and a greater range of undergrad programs), I believe

so?

OR, it's stupid and reductive, by and large.

xpost well, Ethan is a boy who is white and I think Dan's point was that it was "cute" he was telling a black guy how black people feel about things.

Speaking of churches, I had a very unsettling time at a church Halloween
carnival recently. My children and I attended the carnival at Pulaski
Heights Methodist Church last Sunday at the invitation of a friend/member.
Walking around and laughing with all of the adults was a young gentleman
dressed completely in blackface, including full afro, carrying a wine
glass. He may have been portraying some funny character from a movie -- I
dunno, not as hip as I used to be.

Its ironic, because the same day the D*G referenced a judge who had been
suspended for 6 months for doing that exact same thing. Am I missing
something? I'm not very PC, but it still seems rather offensive and taboo,
not b/c its offensive in and of itself, but simply b/c of the cultural
history including the old Step n' Fetchit bs. Kind of like flying an
airplane into a building isn't offensive per se, but given the context
after 9/11, it is now.

Did his parents not say anything to him? What about the older adults at the
church? They didn't have many AA's in attendance, so maybe the church
members thought it was no big deal.

Oh, and quit sniveling .......... You'll get over it soon, white boy.

but, again, you have no proof, unless U of C actually releases stats on minority recruitment, which i doubt they do. i'm going to assume it's a failure, perhaps it's just my pessimism, but i'm not sure what drives your defense of an institution that has never particularly seemed to try too hard, afaik, to recruit from its own community.

hstencil, you can recruit all you want, but if it's not the right situation, kids are not going to go. It's pretty much as simple as that.

sure. but there's a lot more that can be done than just half-hearted efforts at recruitment (if that's the problem - none of us knows the actual reasons the percentage is so low). i am not so sure, as gabbneb is, that the reason the percentage is so low is because qualified black students go elsewhere, esp. if it's local students we're talking about.

xpost - bard is in the middle of nowhere, not the "capitol of black america" gabbneb.