[Cecily]

Now Barack and Michelle are really confused.

[ClearCase_guy]

With grades like his, I bet the other kids criticized him for “acting white”.

[2banana]

Did he get a minority scholarship? Did he protest for a white studies department and a white club at the student union?

[Hacklehead]

One of the rare cases where Afirmative action worked.

[DoughtyOne]

"Josh Packwood is Morehouse," the college's president, Robert Franklin, said in his inauguration speech in February. "He happens to be Euro-American and brings much appreciated diversity to our campus."

It will be nice when we can put race behind us, but minorities and journalists have proven themselves to be incapable of doing so.  All this time and this kid's skin color is the most important issue driving this article.

If this were a black kid, this article would never have been written, and sadly there would have been deemed nothing of import to write about.

That's just sad.

[LibWhacker]

Has he read Cone?

[papasmurf]

I can't believe it, in the AJC, and it was a very good story.



After several conversations, Packwood began to suspect that Gray had no idea that he was white. His suspicions were confirmed when one of Gray's calls caught Packwood in the middle of track practice. "Don't let the white kids walk you down," Gray quipped. "Wait," Packwood re-sponded. "You know I'm white, right?" Silence. Uneasy laughter. Confirmation.

I'd like to have seen that recruiter's face!

It's about time the racial crap just goes away. We have enough division our Country. Stories, with a point like this one, do help break that wall down a bit more.

[rogue yam]

I’m imagining them handing out the diplomas at graduation:

“Joshua Pecker... uh... PACKwood.”

[SeafoodGumbo]

The most recent valedictorian of SUNO - Southern University, New Orleans - was a white woman.

IIRC, almost half of the people are white at Southern University's (Baton Rouge) Law School. It's where people go if they can't get into LSU.

[packrat35]

ping for later

[Clock King]

Ping for later.