Since the election of President Obama, we’ve seen a resurgence of racism in every sector of society. From growing websites that allow users to spew anonymously to on-air personalities sharing their prejudiced views with others, the displays have been, to say the least, disturbing. Many people believe these types of acts are carried out by lower class, uneducated people, not yet aligned with modern views of tolerance. The most recent incident, which took place on a college campus, may change all of our views on that.
In February, students at the University of California at San Diego held an off-campus party where guests were encouraged to wear gold teeth, mocking rappers from Compton, California, and to dress in baggy clothing style that is popular among today’s urban youth and wannabes. Adding insult to injury, the party’s hosts served up watermelon…repeating an age old – and overdone – slam on African Americans. To compound the situation, a campus television show highlighted the party on air and used a racial slur to refer to black students. As if things couldn’t get worse, a student hung a noose from a bookcase in the campus library. Outraged students thought the administration was slow to react and kept too low a profile as the events unfolded. They responded to the perceived inaction by holding a sit-in the university Chancellor’s office.
Diversity is key in all aspects of life, especially in higher education settings. If students from homogenous communities are not exposed to a variety of cultures they may not be able to adjust and dispel the stereotypical images they may bring to the table. Additionally, interacting with and, possibly, befriending someone from a different culture may lead a student to think twice before saying or participating in something that is racially or culturally offensive. Unfortunately, there has been a lack of diversity in California colleges and universities since affirmative action was struck down in the state.
Currently, black students are disproportionately underrepresented in the state’s universities. Those who do enroll are truly minorities within the school; they should not subject to racist acts or images. The University of California at San Diego – and universities and colleges nationwide – should begin to offer mandatory diversity training for first year students. Furthermore, racist and offensive behavior should carry with it a stiff penalty, not necessarily expulsion but perhaps extensive community service in an urban area.
Colleges can and should work to shift and ultimately change prejudiced behavior among students. If it is not nipped in the bud on the campus level, the racist ideals could grow and these young people, with their poisoned thoughts, could go on to wreak more havoc in society.
When we look to the govt. or other secular groups for the answers to our youth’s moral decline, we succeed in only putting “a band aid on a ruptured artery”. The real issue: the lack of teaching Biblical doctrine, love and obedience to The LORD, and love and respect for each other… especially in recent decades. The idea of racial equality was not exclusive to the 1960s. In fact, civil rights would have been passed in the late 1800’s if it weren’t for a terrorist organization designed to keep colored people from voting in elections! Founded and funded by the Democratic Party of the time, they were called the KKK.
Now to address the issue today: Children who are not raised in The Lord have a large chance in buying into the deception of the theory of evolution. Taught in public schools and universities, this materialistic, semi-logical approach to life is better than believing in “fairy tales”, or so they are lead to believe… What happens to those who are indoctrinated to believe that they share a common ancestor with apes and other life forms?
Ponder this quote from Mr. Aldous Huxley (a devout evolutionist): “I had motive for not wanting the world to have a meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption. The philosopher who finds no meaning in the world is not concerned exclusively with a problem in pure metaphysics, he is also concerned to prove that there is no valid reason why he personally should not do as he wants to do, or why his friends should not seize political power and govern in the way that they find most advantageous to themselves. For myself, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation, sexual and political.”
To summarize, if we look at the heart of Evolution, a theory that not only undermines the truth of God, but also tries to create an alternative to it, we see the results: Our impressionable children, when put in circumstances that are not on par with those who have money to placate their lives, or are engrossed in the glamorization of sin and evil inundated by every type of media known today, respond with ideals similar to the quote above. If there is no Father God that loves us, that holds us to a higher standard, and has a purpose for each and every one of us, then why go through the motions and capitulate to a society that is in itself, hypocritical?
I just watched the show for the 1st time I have never heard such prejudice in my life It was between two little boys and theur dads He gave the father $5000.00 it was really ridiculous unless he had more info than was shown, it was a case of judge bias. the boys should not hace been playing with sticks, but I cannot believe the reasoning behind this judgement I will never watch again