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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://thesewaneepurple.org/2021/03/26/a-white-sport-lacrosse-cultures-racial-fragility/[/quote]

This is not surprising and I thought the Vice Chancellor, who is black, and his family were the subject of a racial attack.  I don't remember the particular facts but it was something similar to a cross burning or racist graffiti on their property by students the first year of his tenure.  These are the kinds of kids who attend Sewanee.[/quote]

"The kind of kids who attend Sewanee" had vigils and rallies in support of the new Black vice chancellor and his family, in support of racial justice, and against hate speech. (And no, there was no "cross burning"-- there were a couple of drunk kids who shouted racial slurs).

Show me a campus that has never had any incidents of racist hate speech. Every school has a few a*hole students. The more notable thing is how the rest of the community responds. At Sewanee, more or less the entire community turned out to condemn the racist comments, and the students involved were disciplined.

Sewanee, like many other colleges, particularly in the south, is struggling to reconcile a toxic history of past discrimination with a present commitment to diversity and equity. It's doing better than many. Being Episcopal helps: strong church commitment to anti-racism.[/quote]

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