Argh! Thoughts After Getting Upset

California Campus Sees Uneasy Race Relations

Ah! It's unacceptable that after reading this I thought, "Oh yeah, this is what college is like," as if remembering an essential part of upper education that I had forgotten exists. Even more, then I thought, "Do I really want to go back to school (and deal with all this again)?" which is terrible! Then, "And people wonder why so little minority students go through with upper education!" Not only do we have to deal with established economic inequalities; racism prominent in every aspect of our society; violence, drugs, and alcoholism right in our communities; and out-of-control, immune, violently aggressive white people; when we finally get to college, we have to study our best in the face of ignorant, privileged people telling us they don't want us there. It never ends.

Ugh.