These students have been written off in the last week by many Americans as fanatics. They have been mocked and ridiculed as crazy. But are they? Or are they merely highlighting a racist America?
Within hours of Obama’s re-election, about 40 students rallied outside of the Minority Student Union at Hampden-Sydney College, a tiny, private, all-male school near Richmond, Va. They tossed racial slurs, bottles and threats of physical violence and set off fireworks. To these protestors, the Minority Student Union embodied blackness, Obama embodied blackness, and thus they protested against blackness on their campus.
