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I believe that you are mistaken. My reading of this table from the Census Bureau is that white is 60%: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST04521
by jimhefferon 7y ago
I believe that you are mistaken. My reading of this table from the Census Bureau is that white is 60%: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045219 https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045219. Further, college age students are barely majority-white,
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/raceindicators/images/figures/figure-raa-4.png https://nces.ed.gov/programs/raceindicators/images/figures/f.... Those are the national stats.
I happen to not be from VA. I happen to be from VT (as a google of my user name or email would show).
FWIW, I teach at a Catholic school so many of the nonwhite students we see are a variety of Hispanic. But there are also plenty of others, including African Americans. We draw from New England in general, and to a lesser extent the entire Northeast.
But if I understand your comment correctly, you are not mistaken in that I am a person who thinks that it is right for educational institutions to make strong efforts about redressing our country's heritage of making life harder for some people than others. In my note I meant to express that there are anecdotal signs of progress. Too few, for sure, and I cannot say how much is due to the diversity officers, but wanted to suggest that the article's contempt for work in this area is not wholly justified.