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Once again, it slaps us hard in the face and then holds up a mirror so that we can look at ourselves; and we do, ignoring, of course, the bruising and welts that are forming from being slapped so hard. Once more, our nation must gaze into its collective soul and not, as President Bush once did, gaze into Russian President Vladimir Putin's soul that, as it turned out, is a really dark and terrifying place. No, our nation must gaze into its soul to see what kind of a people we truly are and if we are as open-minded...

Katie Fleischer, a senior at the University of Colorado, had just started watching an anti-racist documentary in class one day when something on the TV screen seemed all too familiar. The film, “Blue Eyed,” showed an Iowa schoolteacher with blue eyes giving special treatment to those students who also had blue eyes. “That’s basically what classes are like sometimes,” said Fleischer, 26, a white student who said she has had only white professors. “You go into it and you have a certain background and the professor looks like you, thinks like you. It’s kind of like you’re given a free...