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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I like how when people are discussing schools in the northeast, everybody screams that the college isn’t important, it’s what you do when you’re there. But get out past the usual subjects, & people claim you can’t possibly succeed from there, [/quote]

It’s not an inconsistent position. If I were hiring a young person and they told me they went to Ole Miss from out of state, I would wonder why. If that same person went to a low-ranked school without a racist history, I would just assume it was the best school they could get into to (and no shade to that — if they did well there and made the best of it, I’d be impressed). I would not be impressed by someone CHOOSING to go to Ole Miss if it’s not their in state school.[/quote]

Outside of HBCUs is there a college below the Mason-Dixon Line without some sort of racist history?

Just curious as to you line of reasoning/logic?[/quote]

I suggest that pp look up the connections of schools like Brown and even Harvard to slavery and racism.

Here’s something to get you started: https://slaveryandjustice.brown.edu/

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/04/slavery-probe-harvards-ties-inseparable-from-rise/

And don’t forget Yale: https://news.yale.edu/2021/11/01/yale-publicly-confronts-historical-involvement-slavery

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Was not stating that other schools do or don't have a past or present problem with racism.  Just responding to PPs take that Ole Miss as a southern school with a racist history.  [/quote]

The implication was that only Southern states have this issue and the comment above was that pp would judge someone for going to a school with a “racist history,” which means there must be alternative schools without a “racist history.”  The point is that *all* schools that have been in existence for any appreciable time have a racist history, including many Ivy League schools that have direct ties to slavery and the slave trade. [/quote]

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