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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is really the roommate's problem, not your daughter's. She should just carry on being her awesome self. She has no obligation to shield anyone from anything. It's very likely the roommate will have zero issues.[/quote]

I agree to a point.

My kid is AA.  The reality is that there are scummy people out there who would prefer not to room with AA people.  Some of them might be the same scummy people who wouldn't want to room with the OP's daughter.  The reality is that my kid puts up with discrimination outside of his home enough.  He doesn't need to live with it too.  So, if someone didn't want to room with him because of race, then I'd want that person moved.  A kid's room at college is their home, and they deserve to feel 100% comfortable there.

OP, my understanding is that many college students connect with other members of their incoming classes on Facebook, and find a roommate that way.  If that's an option at her school, then maybe she can choose her own roommate.  [/quote]

If you'd asked me before I got to college if I wanted to room with a black girl, I would have said I'd prefer a white girl like me. I got a white roommate. She was a huge slut and partier who would routinely bring back boys she picked up at bars and have loud sex with them all night long with me in the room. After the third time I threw a fit. A white girl across the hall had a black roommate, who she always complained was too quiet and boring. She and I arranged to trade roommates. The black girl moved in to my room. We got along swimmingly the entire time we lived together. The slutty girl did to the across-the-hall roommate what she'd done to me, and they grew to hate each other. She offered me $75 to get her old roommate back. I felt it was a little gross to be offering money for a person and said she had to ask my new roommate, who declined to move back. It taught me a good lesson - people who look like you aren't necessarily a good match for living together. There's a lot more to people than the superficial. [/quote]

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