You learn a lot on a college campus. A lot.
A story coming out of Harvard Law School fondly reminded me of one of an experience I had when visiting colleges during my senior year of high school.
The Harvard story goes like this: A promising young law student says to her friends via email:
Way to go law student for applying the logic you have bee learning in school to a major social issue! With so few of color students (let’s hear it for my Ivy League Oreos!) pahking their cahs in Hahvahd’s garahge, it only stands to reason that it’s because your RBP is well, just not as bright.
And that reminded me of an inspiring day on the campus of a school I was considering attending.
The year I graduated from college, my home state repealed any sort of affirmative action practices in schools. What this one college took that to mean is that they shouldn’t allow any minority students to attend their weekly summer sleepover recruiting events. So they pulled the minority students out of the early scheduled sessions and put us all into to one camp session.
Not cool. Because there we were. About 200 Oreos and Coconuts at the tops of our class with our Bad Religion tapes and our composition notebooks full of angsty poetry, forced to hang out with a bunch of other of colors.
And then this doozie at lunch:
College (aged) counselor: You guys are so lucky to be minorities.
Minorities: Oh?
C(A)C: Yeah! You guys can get into school and not have to be smart or anything!
I don’t know what became of that girl, but she left an impression that day. I resolved to stand up for who I was.
A proud Oreo.
The conversation shifted to field hockey and John Hughes and I’m pretty sure that by the end of that chat, she was wondering if we were really minorities or not.
For proof of how much fun it is to be a minority on a college campus, check out this party, this club and go back to school with a little pop quiz.
The Oreo Experience 
*jaw drops*
I’m hoping you chose a different college…
I did go elsewhere.
Also, every single time I was on that school’s campus, something wonky happen. I was at that campus during college for a choir competition. And we had a blind girl in the choir who used a dog. People from that school would walk up to her, say nothing, mess with the dog while putting their face super close to hers. It was awful. And then, during one of our shows, the music got quiet, save for a low timpani roll…the dog, after a couple days of being harassed by the student body, did not like that and started barking during the performance.
That’s awful…(!) Would love to know the name of this fine institution of higher learning so i can send a letter to the dean begging him to make sure the students are familar and well informed about the practice of birth control…..