[T-Bird45]

There is so much wrong here that I don't know where to start and my wife just got up so I have to go make pancakes now.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

But when he arrived at OU, he said, he felt pressure to change how he spoke and acted to integrate himself into the dominant culture.

That's the entire idea of going to college, to learn from a higher class of people.

Unless we are going be PC and say that thug culture is just as good as any other culture.

[Albion Wilde]

Lee, who is black, grew up in a low-income, predominantly black neighborhood in Bryan, Texas, near College Station. But when he arrived at OU, he said, he felt pressure to change how he spoke and acted to integrate himself into the dominant culture.

I am white. I grew up in the South. I went away to college in the North. I felt pressure to change how I spoke and acted to integrate myself into the dominant culture.

A college friend of mine was east Asian. He felt pressure to change how he spoke and acted to integrate himself into the dominant culture, including attending a Christian church because he was in ROTC, and who later did two tours in Vietnam because he was grateful to this nation for accepting Asian refugees from communism.

[School of Rational Thought]

What alot of horsesh*t.

Change is uncomfortable for everyone.

[katana]

Poor babies. Must protect them from any kind of upset.

The writer must feel that a non-black attending a predominantly black school of any kind or just walking through such a neighborhood feels no "cultural tension". "Cultural Tension" is what makes traveling to foreign locales interesting and exhilarating. Real culture shock is an adrenalin rush.

[Pollster1]

Lee, who is black, grew up in a low-income, predominantly black neighborhood . . . when he arrived at OU, he said, he felt pressure to change how he spoke and acted to integrate himself into the dominant culture . . . He felt like he was being asked to trade part of his “blackness” for the values and characteristics of the dominant white culture on campus . . . Lee, an African American Studies major at OU, said he notices that difference when he returns to Texas and talks to family and neighbors in the neighborhood where he grew up . . . He's also more aware of the poverty and drug use in the neighborhood than he was while he was growing up, he said.

Pre-law and African American Studies - quite an interesting combination. I wonder if he has considered why the drug and poverty culture he left behind would be worth holding on to. Or is he going to use a law degree to exploit the failed culture that he wants to hold onto?

[luckystarmom]

I call BS on this article. The black guy is from Bryan, Texas which is the town adjacent to College Station, Texas and home of Texas A&M.

He had to go to a fairly decent high school because that is the only option.

I would buy some of this if he grew up in a poor part of Houston, but not Bryan.

He could have easily taken buses to A&M and hung out on campus.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Waiting for a story about how white students feel at black colleges

[Gumdrop]

Notice that he is studying Black History studies?

[pallis]

I can relate to a lot of this, and I’m white, not even a white Hispanic. I left home at fifteen, grew up on the streets, never finished high school, and felt completely out of place when I started college in my mid twenties. It is called growing.

[Organic Panic]

It is called growing up.

The rest of this bilge is “feelings, nothing more than feeeeeeelings.”

[thejokker]

It’s what Dr. Martin Luther King called “integration”. Why does Dr. King’s dream cause such heartburn among liberals and the neo-segregationist black community?

[mjp]

He felt like he was being asked to trade part of his “blackness” for the values and characteristics of the dominant white culture on campus.

Blacks need to discard the anti-success mentality of the black culture, and learn from the white culture,the values and characteristics of how to succeed.

[FrdmLvr]

“Why you actin’ so white?!”

[dforest]

Black folks need to grow up and stop the whining.

[popdonnelly]

Black seperatism has failed. I’ve seen that through the course of my life. It just reinforces hostility.

[ladyL]

I remember feeling aghast at my daughter’s University when I walked past three black college students on the sidewalk and they were saying MF this, MF that and barely moving over on the sidewalk as they passed me. I was appalled at their rude behavior. If this is the culture we want to endorse then something is twisted about our thinking. It is time to call this culture for what it is...debased.

[Chaguito]

“...64 percent of OU’s undergraduates in the fall 2011 semester were white. Just 5 percent of undergraduates in 2011 were black.”

So, 31% is something else. Where’s the writeup on those poor babies’ sad plight?

[bgill]

Lee, an African American Studies major

Now, who's the racist? Hmm, low income black Texas kid somehow decided on an out of state college with out of state tuition. He could have gone to any of the 5 predominately black colleges in Texas so he wouldn't have felt out of place and been able to go home every weekend so he wouldn't have to experience much of life outside his 'hood. I'd really like to know how many African American Studies major ever bother to visit Africa. I'd also like to know what the heck he's going to do with such a lame major.

[alexander_busek]

Family and friends treat him with greater privilege, he said.

How does one treat someone else "with greater privilege"? Or does the author mean that his family and friends "accorded" him greater privileges? Or that they treated him as though he were "more privileged"? Or that they treated him with "greater courtesy"?

Is English the first language of the author of this article?

Regards,

[Bon mots]

Maybe somebody just doesn’t belong at college.

So the journalist thinks that because ghetto rats, when allowed into a university on dumbed-down affirmative action quotas and lowered standards, feel dumb and incapable, we need to change the universities.

Maybe if the universities were more like street gangs these ‘students’ would ‘feel better’.