“Maybe He Should Do More of That ‘Dirt Off Your Shoulder’ Song. White Kids and Black Kids Love That Stuff!”

“Where’s the brothers?”: Obama college mixer’s half-mixed crowd

Barack Obama puts himself forward as a unifier, pointing to his campaign, itself, with its multi-hued, multi-aged-, multi-multied constituency as an example of the change he is helping to create, in America.

But a recent Wall Street Journal piece, “Race on Campus: Beyond Obama, The Unity Stops: After Campaign Rallies, Black, White Students Go Their Separate Ways,” argues that, well, after campaign rallies, Black and white students go their separate ways.

Across the country, college campuses have become hotbeds of support for Sen. Obama. Nationally, 70% of Democrats ages 18 to 24 favor Sen. Obama compared with 30% for Hillary Clinton, according to a recent poll by Harvard’s Institute of Politics. Many black and many white students wear their Obama buttons and “Got Hope?” T-shirts proudly as a sign that they are part of a post-Civil-Rights generation more welcoming of change and diversity than their parents.

But after classes — and after the occasional Obama rally — most black and white students on college campuses go their separate ways, living in separate dormitories, joining separate fraternities and sororities and attending separate parties.

“It’s much harder to be a white person and go to an all black party at Duke than vote for Obama, says Jessie Weingartner, a Duke junior. “On a personal level it is harder to break those barriers down.”

Oh well, Jessie. If you don’t do it, maybe your children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their children will figure it out. We can hope. But if they don’t do it, maybe their children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their children will figure it out. Then, who knows? If they don’t do it, maybe their children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their children will figure it out, ya think? And if they don’t do it, maybe their children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their children will figure it out. By this point, those barriers should come down. But, if not, and if they don’t do it, maybe their children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their children will figure it out. By this point, somebody should have figured it out. But if not, maybe their children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their children will figure it out. Definitely. Definitely then.

We’ll be waiting! Right here in the corner!