Comments on: University TV ads feature ‘white and wealthy’

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:01:00 +0000

Of course. It’s the token black guy.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:10:00 +0000

White middle class males are the most descriminated against people on earth. And we cant spell.

By: Mostly Harmless

Mostly Harmless — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:38:39 +0000

“TV ads from most major US universities show campuses as, ‘overwhelmingly white, privileged environments’…”
I call that “Truth in Advertising”. The operative word being “privileged”. I’d say those who lack the financial means (a nice way of saying “not rich”) are much more likely to be discouraged by these ads than “people of color”. But everybody knows it’s okay, perhaps even encouraged to discriminate against poor people. You can beat the crap out of, or even kill homeless people and society will barely blink, as long as they are white homeless people. If they were not white it would be a hate crime…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:07:18 +0000

Racism is dying but is not dead yet.

We still have to watch out!

By: bah

bah — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:33:38 +0000

REMEMBER: ONLY WHITE PEOPLE CAN BE RACISTS.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:23:22 +0000

I don’t think the future students are being misled or fooled.
They’ve got to be smarter than that.

Isn’t the idea to be “colorblind” anyway?

By: Rekrul

Rekrul — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:08:09 +0000

Has anyone actually checked the colleges in question to see if the TV spots are an accurate representation of the ratio of white and minority students? If not, that’s one thing, but if the ratio of white to minority students is 5 to 1, then it would be just as wrong for the TV spots to represent the colleges as having a large amount of minority students. It would lead potential students to believe that they would find a lot of diversity among the students only to disappoint them when they find that the majority of students are white.