Racial Issues

Racial issues are matters that I thought our society overcame a long time ago, but according to the event that happen in Mississippi, I can evidently see that it didn’t. On November 11, 2012 near midnight, Ole Miss police officers came across a large crowd of students "shouting racial slurs and taunting other students with chants" about the recent presidential election.Just minutes after President Obama was re-elected Tuesday, a crowd of 550 "agitated and angry" students and spectators gathered to not only attack his policies, but shout about race."

Now hearing about this situation, I have the opportunity to go to Ole Miss for a summer college program, but should I be scared to do so? My very own mother was frightened for me attend just because of this incident. I don’t know much about politics, but I can say that I was happy that Obama was re-elected. If I was to go down there and say I support Obama, with my black face, will they start a riot with me too? After all, I am a young African American scholar and there was nothing but whites complaining about the re-election of Barack Obama, a “black” president.  I am not afraid to attend the summer college because of this, but it is something that I must keep in mind while I am down there to protect myself from these racial issues.


http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2012/11/10/racial-slurs-at-colleges-show-progress-still-needed/1696475/