[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.

[Redbob]

"If this were a black kid, this article would never have been written,..."

Of course not:

What would be remarkable about a black kid going to a black school???

[Moose4]

I remember several years ago when the starting quarterback at Grambling University was a white kid. Some of the Usual Suspects were freaking out about it. The black football players didn’t care...they said he was the best QB, and they followed him without reservation. I can’t remember if the legendary Eddie Robinson was still the coach or if Doug Williams had taken over at that point, but either way, *they* certainly didn’t care. And the team enjoyed some success.

}:-)4