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02/19/2009: "College notes Black History Month with reminders of segregation"
Two signs hung on a drinking fountain near the Campus Center dining hall. One was marked "White" and the other read "Colored Only."
No one actually was forced to segregate, but some students didn't agree that the exercise was a good way to make a point.
Albright senior Marc C. Simmons, who's black, said he would rather have seen organizers promote unity by asking people of different races or affiliations to sit together.
"A lot of times, people sit in their cliques," Simmons said, referring to groups of the same race or the same fraternity, for example.
[ People associate with others who are like them because that's how Nature made us, not because we have learned to do so or because we wish to be mean to anyone. But this doesn't suit the pluralist dogma. ]
http://www.readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=125943