A graduation ceremony honoring 4,000 students can be a bit impersonal. So many large universities, including Arizona State University, have long held separate, more intimate ceremonies for individual colleges.Do you think white students will be able to have their own separate ceremonies because large graduations are "impersonal"? It's rather amazing a state and federally funded institution would use tax dollars to promote racism.But,heh the real racists have tenure.What more can we say.Eat your heart out Klu Klux Klan.
But as the number of minorities graduating from colleges and universities increases nationally, minority students also are gathering among themselves for culturally themed events celebrating an accomplishment that many of their older relatives weren't able to experience.
ASU's American Indian convocation was Thursday, and a commencement ceremony for Hispanic students was Saturday. Similar convocations also take place in the spring, along with ceremonies for Blacks and Asian Americans.
Sunday, December 18, 2005
Are Minority Graduates Separate But Equal?
The Arizona Republic reports that the move to bring back Plessy: