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February 7, 2007 - 9:42pm — Jono
To Debbie Reese and Genevieve Tenoso:
As I've already said once to the general audience, please take a look at my posts and tell me that they don't represent a misunderstanding or refusal to understand other minorities' experiences.
You keep commenting on Native Americans and racism towards them, but I detect a definite refusal to admit that other groups that have not been allowed in the minority support group also experience intolerance.
This is what upsets me personally. A minority group that would serve everyone would be a fantastic idea. Though I still believe that intolerance isn't as much of an issue at our school as elsewhere in the world, I don't deny the existence of racism, and Uni students aren't in any way immune to it.
That said, this support group isn't functioning as inclusively as I'd like to see, and I've mentioned this multiple times both as a response to this editorial, and to the founders of the group.
Multiple other students have raised the same claim, most of whom are minorities who've been rejected themselves. The only reason they've been kept out of this minority group is because they're Indian, Asian, and Middle Eastern as opposed to African American, Native American, and Hispanic/Latino.
I don't see how this practice of selecting other's minority status (or lack thereof) is a tolerant practice. If there's something I'm missing, I don't mind hearing it, but I'm getting no answer at all, and that's what concerns me.


