{"id":567,"date":"2008-05-07T11:38:59","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T15:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=567"},"modified":"2008-05-07T11:38:59","modified_gmt":"2008-05-07T15:38:59","slug":"maybe-he-should-do-more-of-that-dirt-off-your-shoulder-song-white-kids-and-black-kids-love-that-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=567","title":{"rendered":"“Maybe He Should Do More of That ‘Dirt Off Your Shoulder’ Song. White Kids and<\/i> Black Kids Love That Stuff!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n“Where’s the brothers?”: Obama college mixer’s half-mixed crowd<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh well, Jessie. If you don’t do it, maybe your<\/em> children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their<\/em> children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their<\/em> children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their<\/em> children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their<\/em> children will figure it out. We can hope. But if they don’t do it, maybe their<\/em> children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their<\/em> children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their<\/em> children will figure it out. Then, who knows? If they don’t do it, maybe their<\/em> children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their<\/em> children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their<\/em> children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their<\/em> children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their<\/em> children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their<\/em> children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their<\/em> children will figure it out, ya think? And if they don’t do it, maybe their<\/em> children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their<\/em> children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their<\/em> 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<\/em> children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their<\/em> children will figure it out. By this point, somebody should have figured it out. But if not, maybe their<\/em> children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their<\/em> children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their<\/em> children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their<\/em> children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their<\/em> children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their<\/em> children will figure it out. And if they don’t do it, maybe their<\/em> children will figure it out. Definitely. Definitely then.<\/p>\n

We’ll be waiting! Right here in the corner!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“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: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,20,65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}