Blacks Give White Students ‘Valuable Insights and Experiences’
A citizen of West Virginia recently responded to an article about University of Mary Washington (UMW) President Judy Hample’s “diversity” speech. UMW is on a mission to increase brown faces on campus by doubling funding and hiring a “vice president of diversity and inclusion.” (Source)
Hample has big plans for UMW. By not recruiting more blacks, she contends, “We are denying our majority students valuable insights and experiences that we don’t give those students an opportunity to live and to learn with in a population that is reflective of the overall society or even the local community.”
Indeed, the “valuable insights and experiences” meme is one of the main tenets of the skin deep-only diversity doctrine. Lily-white students somehow are deprived of the enrichment of mixing with black people. Therefore, the creed reads, we must give these deprived kids an opportunity to be fulfilled and expanded by rubbing shoulders with others of another color. (Has anyone ever quantified these valuable insights and experiences?)
That’s not a bad thing per se, but it is most certainly a bad thing when universities lower standards for black students in order to achieve those goals.
From my vantage point, the important thing to “diversiphiles” is making sure brown faces appear on the admissions brochure. What valuable insights and experiences could possibly justify holding these students to a lesser standard and denying other students admission based on skin color?
Back to the citizen. Larry Buchanan dispenses with euphemism (bless his heart) and calls the quest for skin deep-only diversity by its proper name: discrimination. He writes:
“Beware, Virginia taxpayers. More of your money is about to be spent educating the children of people who do not pay taxes in Virginia…Some Virginia families will be discriminated against as their children are displaced and prevented from attending UMW in the name of diversity.
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We will now have a full-time person on the university payroll whose job will be to further obfuscate the process and make it appear that race is not at issue. Race or ethnicity should never be a consideration in the student admission process, but we know it is when heads are counted and statistics quoted on the basis of race and touted as diversity.”
