What is with this woman! She complains about being an outsider at Harvard. I didn’t get to go to Harvard. I was a good student, but nobody was giving me any scholarships to go to school. They certainly weren’t giving me scholarships to go to Harvard. I went to a rich kids school that wasn’t Ivy League and I felt like an outsider there. It didn’t have anything to do with race. It had to do with not having much in common with the other kids at the school. I drove a Volkswagon, most of them drove Porsches. We just weren’t in the same league at the time. My point being EVERYTHING isn’t about race. Maybe the other kids there didn’t like her because she was arrogant and couldn’t see beyond race issues herself. I imagine that never crossed her mind.

And now she tells students at the University of South Carolina that they need to embrace diversity, get out of their comfort zones and quit being ignorant.

We don’t like being pushed outside of our comfort zones. You know it right here on this campus. You know people sitting at different tables- you all living in different dorms. I was there. You’re not talking to each other, taking advantage that you’re in this diverse community. Because sometimes it’s easier to hold on to your own stereotypes and misconceptions. It makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is are we ready for change?

By all means, let this woman keep talking.

I’m willing to bet the kids in North Carolina are a LOT more accustomed to intermingling with kids from different races than the kids in Michelle Obama’s Chicago are. Racial diversity is not something unusual for those of us in the South. In fact, we have been racially integrated for generations (granted, until a couple of generations ago it wasn’t in the way it should have been - but there has always been a lot of interaction between whites and blacks in the South and we’ve always been a part of each others lives).

Have mercy!

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Others posting on this: Hot Air, Little Miss Attila, Gateway Pundit, Leaning Up Straight, California Conservative, NeoCon News, Sister Toldjah, Jammie Wearing Fool, Crush Liberalism, Amboy Times

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