Spring Break
We like to think we've come a long way. Our generation would never stand for segregation. We know the n-word is taboo. Slavery is a smear on our nation's past for even the least open-minded of our citizens. We even devote a whole month to learning black history - we're educated, right? Those dark days of our country are in the past, and it's high time to move on, right? Wrong. (0) comments
Shut up and listen. These words continuously ran through my head as I sat at Theodore Roosevelt High School two nights ago. Parents, teachers, students and community members met in the auditorium to discuss a crime that is bringing race issues in the school and Kent community to a forefront. (0) comments
They told me to write a column. A blank page. A clean slate. It's what we all get every day, more or less. It's what we all got when we came to college. It's what some of us probably need after last weekend. A bottle of aspirin and a week-long extension on all the homework we didn't do wouldn't hurt either. (0) comments