Once again, y'all are glossing over the difference between a minority seeking support and a majority seeking dominance.

Yesterday my boss, who is black, was telling me stories from when he was in graduate school at Northwestern. For a while he was the only black guy in the program. Not only did all the whites think he was an AA admission -- even though he had come from Columbia and they had generally come from state schools -- but it was clear they had no idea what to think about him.

When some more blacks arrived the following year, they instantly became a group -- not out of some conscious race-based ideology, but because they had more in common with each other than with their white classmates.

Note that the small number of blacks forming a group had no effect on the professional or educational prospects of the white majority, whereas had the whites formed such a group, it would have seriously damaged the prospects of the black students. That's the difference between a minority support group and a majority exclusionary club.

BTW, at one point the school sent the students out to do research in the community. One white student was assigned a bad neighborhood, and was afraid to go. So the program director asked one of the black students to go with her -- because, you know, his skin color would protect them.

He refused, suggesting not only that the request was borderline racist, but that it was not his job to babysit a classmate, and if she was unable to complete the assignment then perhaps she needed to pick a different program of study.

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