SMU-TCU 2/3rds sold out already

[Topper]

I know the State Fair Used to have "Negro Day"(historical). I think the Cotton Bowl may well have been segregated back then. I mean this was the Soth in the 1940s.

It was actually called "Negro Achievement Day."

[ponyboy]

I know it's historical, but this is an uncomfortable topic for many, including myself.

[Mestengo]

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[Stallion]

We are talking history-one that shouldn't be forgotten-it ain't gonna hurt anybody to discuss what actually happened. Is this reverse PC? I think its healthy to remind ourselves that a guy like me that just turned 50 can remember like it was yesterday how unusual and shocking it was to have an African American play for his favorite team. Think about that every once in awhile.

[cutter]

We are talking history-one that shouldn't be forgotten-it ain't gonna hurt anybody to discuss what actually happened. Is this reverse PC? I think its healthy to remind ourselves that a guy like me that just turned 50 can remember like it was yesterday how unusual and shocking it was to have an African American play for his favorite team. Think about that every once in awhile.

Agreed.

[ponyboy]

I personally think about it a lot. But it'd be easy for a discussion of State Fair Negro Day to be misinterpreted by some and make them upset. If it doesn't bother my African American friends on this board it doesn't bother me.

[Treadway21]

Stallion said:

I think its healthy to remind ourselves that a guy like me that just turned 50 can remember like it was yesterday how unusual and shocking it was to have an African American play for his favorite team.

Is that Texas, TCU or SMU?

[Topper]

I know it's historical, but this is an uncomfortable topic for many, including myself.

I agree that the postings have gotten far afield from the topic, but think about the historical context:

Out of a segregated Southern city, SMU was the first swc or sec team to desegregate. Today, although diversity on campus is far from ideal, we have a football program that is graduating 87% of its African-American players. I think we should remember that this school pioneered integrated college football in the South and is a model for academic achievements of its current African-American players. I couldn't be happier about the whole thing.

[smupony94]

Any update on ticket sales to this game?

[Bergermeister]

Today, although diversity on campus is far from ideal, we have....

Why do you say "far from ideal"? What, exactly, is ideal? I thought the diversity on campus was IDEAL when i started in 1970 and just as IDEAL when I graduated in 1974. What's missing?

[Purple Wimple]

white guilt, especially among folks born after the civil rights movement, baffles me.

If you're too young to remember MLK, what business do you have feeling guilty about racism that doesn't include you? Or are that just that big of a deal, that you can bear others' guilt?

If you aren't Jesus, stop trying to be one.

[smupony94]

Any update on ticket sales to this game?

Back on topic please

[Junior]

I just bought 2 more in section 124.

[Topper]

Today, although diversity on campus is far from ideal, we have....

Why do you say "far from ideal"? What, exactly, is ideal? I thought the diversity on campus was IDEAL when i started in 1970 and just as IDEAL when I graduated in 1974. What's missing?

A recent poll among students resulted in the conclusion among current enrollees that SMU was below average in diversity of enrollment in 5 out of 6 categories including ethnicity, religion, and economic status. I am not going to engage in an argument about what is "ideal" other than to say that I think most universities, and those that rate them, consider diversity among the student body to be a positive factor in establishing an intellectual environment that is open to a broad range of experiences and points of view.

[couch 'em]

Not related to ticket sales or SMU diversity, but I've always wondered: will we one day see mental aptitude as a protected class? You must not discriminate based on mental abilities? Like other protected classes it is something you are just born with.

Also, with the rise of seating for the obese, anti fatty-hate programs, etc., will we see fat as a protected class? Cannot discriminate on the basis of fat?