Sole black on Harvard’s board resigns
BOSTON (Reuters) - The only black member of Harvard University’s seven-person governing board said on Friday he had resigned because he could no longer support the school’s controversial president, Lawrence Summers.
I’m not going to even touch on whether or not I agree with Lawrence Summers. What is tragic about this article is that it makes no difference what race the board member who resigned is. Why mention it? MLK had a vision of a society that would look on a man’s achievements, not his color.That goes both ways. Someone should not be singled out as any particular race whether good or bad. What difference does it really make?(Via US News)
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AMEN to that! No more “we found a nice house, but it was in a, you know, BLACK neighborhood” and the like. Living in Wyoming as I am, I think I’d rather live someplace where there were fewer white rednecks, personally speaking.
I often find that I don’t notice a person’s ethnicity or color very much. For instance the other day a black friend of mine was saying that he was going to cut the fabric off the bottom of his box springs because it was torn and he didn’t want to take it through his friend’s house (he’s moving in with a friend for a short time while looking for an apartment) looking that way. I jokingly made some white trash comment then remembered he’s black. 
<br><br>Or there was the time someone was late for a meeting with this same guy. She’d never met him so she wanted to know what he looked like before going in to the conference room where the meeting was already in progress. I told her what he was wearing then remembered someone else was wearing the same color. Then I remembered that he’s black and nobody else in the conference room was.
Nice, Adina.<br><br>There are some things that we conservative Baptists (wait, scratch that) should be progressive about. In Britain, there is little distinction in manner or language between races. You might say there seems to be more of a desire of minorities to blend in, but it is not for us to judge how cultures should represent themselves. It is our responsibility to “love everyone” (thanks to Big Kenny for that one). Personally, I think the term “colorblind” is archaic and that it is stupid that caucasians are the only ones supposed to be bound by this rule. No one should base their opinion of a person on the color of his skin, but if it’s easier to tell someone to look for the “white guy at the P Diddy concert,” go for it. As I’ve said before, don’t let political correctness make you retarded.<br><br>Is “retarded” PC? Whoops.
I agree with that. The situation I mentioned above in no way warranted this, however. It was more of a political statement by the journalist than anything.
Oh, and the political correctness of this age applies the whole colorblind thing only to whites, but that wasn’t what MLK was getting at. He was aiming for a two-way street.<br><br>Colorblind may not be the best word, but we should in no way let the race or color of any person affect our attitude towards them.<br><br>Your example KingofPop, as well as Adina’s, are examples of where the distinction can be correctly used.
