During the anti-racism rally Tuesday afternoon, I was involved in a discussion (between blacks and whites) that ended in the decision that Minister Louis Farrakhan might not have been a good representation in getting the actual black message across to the people of this campus.

The message I speak of is one of integration and just treatment. While sitting in the Chick Evans Field House later that night, Farrakhan provoked myself and those around me to feel no other way than in the direction he wanted whites to feel in that gym.

Farrakhan managed to contract feelings, not of acceptance to the effect that all of us could one day share a bond together, but feelings that put me on the defense, as anyone would be after being blamed for black’s lack of self-knowledge from an incident that occurred “435 years ago, to be exact.”

These words only caused me to remember other peoples that were persecuted such as the Japanese culture that was completely destroyed in World War II. They rebuilt themselves and today are thriving. The Jewish people found their place in life after being killed and used in undescribable experiments in the Holocaust.

acial discrimination is and always will be a part of human nature, but reverse discrimination doesn’t make matters any easier, it just makes them worse.

When are we going to stop reminding each other of the color of our skin, and instead show each other what we are really made of on the inside?

Jennifer Mangolius

Freshman

Pre-Engineering Technology