Debate Flares After Black College Students Seek A Non-White Roommate

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194. It would not be acceptable

To me the difference has to do with the unequal overtones in our country. I can certainly see how the young women would want to feel free to discuss anything in their home. I haven't had their life experience as a minority, since I am white. I see the motives for them wanting a roommate who has shared their life experience as different from a white person wanting a racially exclusive home. White people aren't free of individual tough times, but living as a minority in a culture that has favored, and still favors the majority, isn't one of them.

I remember a young African American woman I knew in college telling me how she was accused Of shoplifting for "shopping while black" at the store on the military base where her career military dad was stationed. All I could offer was my jaw dropping to the floor, her father devotes his life to being ready to fight for our country and his daughter was considered a criminal on sight. This white girl from a virtually all white town had no clue this shit happened. This was over 30 years ago and what has changed?