May 12, 2008, - 9:58 am
Single White Token: Their Version of “Diversity”
By Debbie Schlussel
I can only imagine the Craig’s List classified ad Morehouse College took out:
Multiple Brothers Seeking Single Cracker Token for Brief, Meaningless Fling; No Strings
On Sunday, Joshua Packwood, will graduate as the first White valedictorian ever in Morehouse College’s 141-year history. Morehouse President Robert Franklin said,
He happens to be Euro-American and brings much-appreciated diversity to our campus.
Yup, that’s their definition of “diversity”: One white guy ringer in 141 years. And listen to how the honky was initially treated at this “diversity-appreciating” school:
Packwood still laughs when he remembers his first day on campus, wandering the grounds in pajama pants and getting stares from black classmates who wondered if the freshman wasn’t a wayward student from Georgia Tech, Georgia State or perhaps Emory University.
After convincing the photographer to take his student ID, Packwood headed to his room in Brazeal Hall. Shortly after, his roommate arrived with his mother. Four years later, Packwood still can’t get over the irony: After years of being one of a few blacks at majority-white schools in Dallas, Phillip Smithey had come to Morehouse to get the “black experience.”
Instead, he was sharing a room with the only white guy in his class.
Sounds like a comical, reverse-Spike Lee movie. And we already know what they think of White people, as enunciated by Lee, the school’s racist, most famous graduate.
It’s interesting. When government investigators go to majority White institutions, they look at things like the number of minorities working there, the number promoted to higher positions, and the historical number of minorities there. Any organization found to “historically” discriminate against minorities gets a Justice Department and/or EEO lawsuit slapped on ’em.
So where’s the lawsuit against Morehouse?
Yes, this is only the first White valedictorian, and the school has had a few–a scant few–White students attending the school, aside from him. And it’s not like White guys are falling all over each other to go to Morehouse.
But these are the same answers that certain White-dominated organizations and institutions make. And they still get the Justice Department and the EEOC on their tails. Certain sciences, for example, don’t attract a lot of Black Ph.D. candidates. Certain universities and companies in those fields won’t–due solely to that reason–attract qualified minority candidates. But that excuse won’t work when they’re slapped with litigation.
They’re encouraged to do minority “recruiting”–lowering of standards and qualifications and increased spending on finding candidates–and universities are encouraged to spend on minority-only scholarships.
So, where are these things at Morehouse? And why is there only the 1st White valedictorian in 141 years in 2008?
Hmmm . . . Must be “discrimination” and “racism.” Time for the Justice Department to investigate this new “much-appreciated diversity” of ONE.
The word reparations seems to come to mind when speaking of black only colleges.
Jim Gregory, the white quarterback that was drafted to play for Grambling and was not exactly loved by all. A movie by Bruce Jenner was made(I never saw it, google it up). I don’t know why anyone would subject themselves to that type of treatment but he did. I seem to remember another more recent quarterback(white) that they purposely snatched up just to play quarterback. ISN’T THAT RACIST?
samurai on May 12, 2008 at 11:26 am