It is VERY intimidating when you're in an university where "Nobody looks like me". Especially if you happen to be of a skin color that makes you look more "stupid".
I had a friend who expressed amazement that there were 3 blacks in his calculus class.
Also went to grad school. I was the only white female there and one of the very few non-obese females on campus, period. It wasn't comfortable being in an environment predominated by Asian and Indian males. For example, my advisor told me to not to take a class because it had "too much math" where in reality I loved and excelled at math.
This black girl probably grew up in a black neighborhood and is in a white environment for the first time. Nothing wrong with her feeling intimidated.
"Especially if you happen to be of a skin color that makes you look more "stupid"."
What the heck does that mean?
"This black girl probably grew up in a black neighborhood and is in a white environment for the first time. Nothing wrong with her feeling intimidated."
By the numbers, she is in an Asian, not a white, environment for the first time.
There is nothing wrong with her feeling intimidated, but there is something wrong with her wanting Cal to admit more blacks so that she does not feel so intimidated. She should either work to get over her feelings of intimidation so that in the future she feels comfortable being in groups made up of various racial and ethnic groups or she should go to a school that has more blacks in its student population, if that is so important to her.
White person uncomfortable around blacks = RACIST
Sounds fair to me.....