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[quote=Anonymous]If you're a non-asian minority and you send your child to UVA, you don't love your child.

Despite concerted appeals from black student groups in 1968, 1980, 2007 and 2015 for a host of institutional overhauls at the university, from increased enrollment of black students to further investment in African American scholarship, black student enrollment remains below 10 percent — significantly lower than that of peer institutions. [b]The student body has also been plagued with hate crimes in recent years, with racial slurs appearing on student property in 2003 and last year.[/b]

McAuliffe and Signer now face the daunting challenge of not only acknowledging but also addressing the racial tensions that have always existed and have again ignited in Charlottesville

Charlottesville has repeatedly found itself the subject of national conversation regarding police brutality, free speech debates and now, white nationalism. This not as a fluke — it is the tension their town was founded on.

To act as though the events of this weekend are a “vicious irregularity” antithetical to the history of Charlottesville and its university is to overlook the fact that the city has been an ideological battleground since the time of Jefferson. Judging by the response of local and national authorities to the events of this weekend, the city’s fraught history of racial conflict will continue haunt its future.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/08/14/white-supremacists-didnt-just-arrive-in-charlottesville-theyve-always-been-there/?utm_term=.efbecccee32a[/quote]

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