[T-Bird45]

There is so much wrong here that I don't know where to start and my wife just got up so I have to go make pancakes now.

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

but he adopted the speech patterns and culture of the people around him.

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This is not a black thing, everyone adapts to the speech patterns/culture around them.

[Shimmer1]

Make one for the bunny!!!

[Coldwater Creek]

During the late 1800’s and early 1900’s a lot of people that had some Indian blood would list themselves as Black in Oklahoma census's.

[headstamp 2]

What a pantload.

[dagogo redux]

Another BGI article [Black Grievance Industry].

Stay out of the kitchen, Blacks, if you don’t like the heat.

If I choose to go live and work in Japan for an extended period, is that entire country supposed to change to meet my need to feel like I’m still in America? Should they isolate me in a little American enclave that they are required to construct? Is that even what I would want?

[jmacusa]

Simply put for many in America racism is a business.

[Venturer]

Gee: I bet I would feel the same way if I attended Howard.

I would probably feel the same way if I attended a party at the Playboy mansion. Or if I was introduced to the Pope.

This is a non-story.

[Cowboy Bob]

I remember when Universities used to educate people, rather then get involved in social engineering.

BTW, did this boy pay for his education, or did he get a free ride due to his skin color?

[FutureRocketMan]

This is the problem with European style collectivism. We are each individuals firstly. Forget about what “group” you are from or the black “culture.” You’re an American citizen, period. Let it go.

It also seems like the problem lies within black families, rather than at the predominantly white universities. The only way that’s going to change is if more black youth are motivated to do well in school, instead of succumbing to the norm of black youth which is to do poorly, because education doesn’t matter, so they think.

[freeangel]

“Lee, an African American Studies major at OU, said he notices that difference when he returns to Texas and talks to family and neighbors in the neighborhood where he grew up. Family and friends treat him with greater privilege, he said. He’s also more aware of the poverty and drug use in the neighborhood than he was while he was growing up, he said. “

And this is bad, how? Oh, yeah, drug use and poverty ARE part of the culture he is loathe to give up because success and not using drugs are part of white culture?

[The Duke]

Maybe if the college just renamed their cheeleader squad to “The Whos and Bitches” then this young man might feel more “at home”?

[NotYourAverageDhimmi]

According to a recent study published in the National Communication Association's journal, Communication Education, black students at predominantly white universities still often struggle to assimilate themselves into a culture they see as different from their own.

When black people point out that there are cultural differences that lead to tension, the statement is accepted and it's suggested that white people must change or be more accomodating. When white people point out that cultural differences lead to tension it's racist, and once again it's white people who must change.

[goodnesswins]

Sounds like the PROPAGANDA Factory schooled him well....lucky we GERMANS didn’t feel the same way, or America would likely be speaking German....sheesh....

[anton]

There is no limit to the number of and outlandishness of excuses that blacks can muster to explain away their own problems. These ungrateful bastards don’t stop to think that white European Americans gave a half million lives so that the government would not have to pay to free the slaves like they did in England and elsewhere, nor that their ancestors in West Africa are still killing each other right and left.

They should stop their whining, get out the books, get a job and STFUp.

[Steve_Seattle]

"He felt like he was being asked to trade part of his “blackness” for the values and characteristics of the dominant white culture on campus."

I went to college, and I think that many college students of whatever race are somewhat intimidated by the college atmosphere. Particularly on large, public campuses, you can feel isolated and estranged from your environment, especially if you are away from home for the first time. Also there is the stress that you are - in a sense - competing with your co-students, and there is pressure to do well in this somewhat rarified atmosphere of "the best and the brightest" (so-called, that is).

Also, if you are a Christian, you can find your values and beliefs explicitly challenged and even mocked. You can get a sense that open expression of those values might even get you into conflict with professors or university officials.

[Steve_Seattle]

One other thing I forgot to mention is that for conservative students, the left-wing atmosphere of most campuses can be a real shock, every bit as much as coming from the Hood, and that conservatives can feel pressured to keep their mouths shut about their real beliefs when they are subjected to indoctrination by left-wing professors.

[Zionist Conspirator]

But when he arrived at OU, he said, he felt pressure to change how he spoke and acted to integrate himself into the dominant culture.

You mean like white Southerners have had to do since the Civil War?

My heart bleeds.

[Feckless]

He felt like he was being asked to trade part of his “blackness” for the values and characteristics of the dominant white culture on campus

Yeah, who knows what speaking English, having manners, and respect for authority might lead to..... a job! Heaven forbid.

[dfwgator]

Imagine how a white person at a black college must feel.

[dfwgator]

What predominantly “white” campuses, heck nowadays most campuses are full of foreign students and teachers.