#itooamharvard and the Black Bruins

Sometimes when we see people of color at top institutions, such as Harvard or even our own UC Davis, we think "they made it," that they are the exception, and are somehow immune to the pervasive racism and structural discrimination which affects so many in our nation.



We couldn't be more wrong. Check out these two videos, the blog, http://itooamharvard.tumblr.com/ and this article http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/11/11/students-video-leads-discussion-race-ucla. Even for those of us who are aware of these problems, it's still mind blowing. When only 48 of the 2,418 entering male students at UCLA are black (total campus representation of 3.3% compared to 13.1% of the national population) - and people don't see the problem with that,  we need more wake-up calls like this.