Debate Crosses Racial Divide
Posted on February 26, 2009
Filed Under News, The Daily Prereq | By Jessica Gross
It’s the real-life version of a How Far We’ve Come movie: Wiley College (a HBC) and SMU (a “historically white college,” according to the Chron) held a debate this week. The punch line? The debate was first scheduled for 1935.
Ben Voth, SMU’s debate coach, provided the sappy summary line for me: “Just in having this debate we are all winners because we have overcome a history of racism and divisiveness.”
(Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education News Blog)
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