We come from a family situation and our culture is about sharing. If they say they re doing fine and their grades are fine and the environment is fine, then they ve latched onto the wrong value system, he said. They ve come to accept this as the way to be somebody by the job he s got, by the money he s got. Then I realized that black students were saying the same thing Secretary to the University Erich Walter had said in his 1960 interview with Thomas Hayden. Today, however, the human being is beginning to look at life and his relations to it as having a very quick obsolescence.
People think they are expendable, replaceable like everything else.
More recently, white students are now saying this. I joined a sorority because I had no girlfriends. In a sterile environment where the individual is denied the opportunity to form new relationships and identities, and where there is a constant stripping away of self-worth and confidence, the only security is to join a group that can defend and protect you. Throughout higher education we found that Hispanic, Jewish, Polish, Italian, Muslim, Arab, Vietnamese, and Haitian student associations have organized themselves in their own separate groups. . . I think Blacks are more sensitive to the lack of community in the university because black culture evolved in part in response to the enormous brutality and hostility of the white population.