UCSD Students Say Deeper Racism Exists On Campus (After Frat Party Incident)

KPBS ^ | February 24, 2010 | AnaTintocalis

[brwnsuga]

It is really disheartening that racial strife is continuing after all this time. I know there will be some Freepers talking about reverse discrimination and affirmative action and all that bullsh*t, but it is really about human beings not respecting and loving each other in spite of our differences. I’m trying to figure out when it will end.

[qwertypie]

Sounds like the new generation is less uptight about old racial attitudes and the sanctity of the grievance mentality. Progress, in my book. I witnessed the same during my very young years between European ethnics that finally made peace through joshing instead of fighting.

To the grievance mongers: lighten up, Francis.

[nickcarraway]

Amen. Sadly there are people on both sides who will use this to their advantage, instead of trying to make it better.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Plus, one small group of students has exacerbated the racial tensions by publishing inflammatory material in an alternative newspaper called The Koala.

The Koala was more comedy/satire than alternative when I was going to UCSD. Sounds like the inflammatory material was probably a dumb attempt at humor.

[C19fan]

Some frat boys do something in poor taste and the black studenys get all uppity and make a list of demands that the cowardly administrators will cave in. If I was a UCSD student I would not be attending any sort of teach in. If I was the President I would ban the frat and that should be the end of it.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Liberals have negative senses of humor.

[nickcarraway]

Well, politeness is a conservative value too. There are PC excesses, but that doesn’t mean people went around being obnoxiously rude before PC.

[driftdiver]

“I’m trying to figure out when it will end.”

Never, its part of human nature to a certain extent. When certain groups demand special treatment it only aggravates the situation.

America is MUCH less prone to this type of behavior than many other places in the world.

[Deagle]

Well, maybe you are also the cause of this type of strife. Yes, reverse discrimination exists and only causes more problems. Really, if we want to get past this, we really have to get rid of all government discrimination...pro and con.

It seems that liberals have the major problem.. I have never had a problem judging a person by his actions and beliefs (what many of us call morality) - just try that on a liberal. Many of us have never thought about color, race, or creed, but judge a person based upon his actions and morality. Why liberals can’t do that is a problem.

[SoCalPol]

I live here in San Diego.
Still don’t figure this. A liberal Univ.
Also has major Medical School and big on the
sciences. Many Nobel Prize Profs.

Also at UCSD are several under grad colleges,
Thurgood Marshall, Eleanor Roosevelt are the name of a few of them.

These kids are probably spoild rich brats with too much time on their hands. Maybe the brass could find them something to do, something they wouldn’t pick out to do.

[LS]

It was very well on its way to "ending" when the Dems and Zero and the "Rev." Sharpton and Jackson began to make EVERYTHING about race. I remember growing up and going to professional basketball games at the Phoenix Suns. It never dawned on me, not once, that Connie Hawkins was black and that Dick Van Arsdale was white . . . until the race bigots began to hammer race at every turn.

The bottom line is, they can't have it both ways. You can't have "black history month" to celebrate supposedly "good" racial characteristics and then complain when people joke about supposedly "bad" racial characteristics. Once you go race, you never go back.

[stormer]

“Uppity”? Oh, brother.

[driftdiver]

“Yes, reverse discrimination exists and only causes more problems.”

No such thing as reverse discrimination. There is only discrimination and all races are capable of it.

[There You Go Again]

They should have just burned a U.S. flag....they would have been applauded by the university....kids need to learn how to behave.....

[qwertypie]

Well, then, attack it as rudeness instead of escalating it into racism, which is the game that is trying to be played here. If every perceived slight is inflated as such, there never will be harmony.

As I said, I watched my father’s generation come to peace among the European ethnics. A lot of “polacks” and “wops” were bandied around by tough construction workers who laughed it off sincerely and moved on; something that would have provoked mass fights decades early was put into proper perspective through humor.

[behzinlea]

There is only discrimination and all races are capable of it.

And our government legitimizes it.

[webstersII]

“I’m trying to figure out when it will end.”

Soon, I hope.

But there’s so much money in the continuance of it that I fear it is here for awhile longer.

As you said, it’s about human beings respecting each other.

[Vigilantcitizen]

Baye Kes Ba Me Ra is with the Pan African Association of America. He says the problem at UCSD is bigger than just a few students.

I wonder what Fo So La Te Do had to say?

[Deagle]

Heh..not sure if you’re response was belief in reality or maybe just making fun of the situation.

Of course there is reverse racism and it is displayed every day by almost all colleges (They tend to call it making up for past problems - or diversity). That’s okay though, most leftists do not recognize or admit that. Yes, racism is racism - in all colors and attitudes. When you don’t actually see that - well, that is your problem.