Segregated Graduations Raise Concerns UVA Not Dismantling DEI
14th May 2025
I will assume that we can all recall Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous words, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
King came to UVA in 1963 and told the students: “If democracy is to live, segregation must die.” But that’s segregation by law. What if racial, ethnic, or “sexual” minorities are convinced to “self-segregate” today?
In 2019, TheCollegeFix.com reported that as many as 75 American universities held “blacks only” graduation ceremonies. Sixty years ago, “blacks only” was viewed by most as the height of racism. How did we backslide so fast?
That cackling sound you hear is Orval Faubus (a Democrat) laughing from beyond the grave. “Get them to do it to themselves! Why didn’t we think of that?”