Some Things Never Change

[Pangloss62]

A friend of mine who lives in Athens, Georgia, home of our great University of Georgia, forwarded me the following piece from the local paper:
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Partisan History
Spoken Here
After 34 years of college teaching, I thought I had heard just about every imaginable student complaint. Last week, however, a freshman in my 300-seat "U.S. History Since 1865" course came in to discuss her exam with one of the graders and proceeded to work herself into a semi-hissy over the fact that we had spent four class periods (one of them consisting of a visit from MLK biographer Taylor Branch) discussing the Civil Rights Movement. "I don't know where he's getting all of this," she complained, "we never discussed any of this in high school." One might have let the matter rest here as simply an example of a high school history teacher's sins of omission being visited on the hapless old history prof had the student not informed the T.A. in an indignant postscript, "I'm not a Democrat! I don't think I should have to listen to this stuff!"----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Well, considering that UGA did not allow a Black student to take a college class at its institution until 1961, we should not be surprised by the above student's incredulity at having to hear about the Civil Rights Movement.
When the first Black students arrived for class in 1961, they were met by students chanting, "Two-four-six-eight, we don 't want to integrate."


Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter; the first Black students at the University of Georgia