'Hadn't we already agreed as a nation that racial segregation is morally wrong? Apparently, these schools haven't gotten the memo,' says usatodayopinion contributor Glenn Harlan Reynolds.
It was the argument of the old-time segregationists that the various races were too different to get along side by side. The best that could be hoped for was that each could stay in its lane and flourish on its own with minimal contact with the others. That’s sounding more and more like the sort of thing we’re hearing on college campuses, where each group is told that others can’t understand its thinking because of its unique experiences, requiring its own safe space.
Likewise, many of these university programs seem to lump all nonwhites — except Asians, who, as sometimes happened under Jim Crow, often get thrown in asI was assaulted at Berkeley because I'm conservative I think the segregationists of 1963 would have gotten a good laugh out of the way race is often treated on campus today. The rest of us shouldn’t be laughing. All of this labeling, separating and dividing by race and other characteristics is one of the things contributing to a divided and divisive America. Sure, it generates plenty of make-work for campus administrators, but that’s hardly a justification that should resonate with the taxpayers.
As we were just reminded on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, progress on race in America used to mean seeing past color and race, not sorting people based on external characteristics. And, actually, it still means that. It’s just that the people running the show on campus seem less interested in progress than in division.
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