Sherry Chandler

Here’s an interesting item from Darryl Fears in the Washington Post:

The nation’s most elite colleges and universities are bolstering their black student populations by enrolling large numbers of immigrants from Africa, the West Indies and Latin America, according to a study published recently in the American Journal of Education.

Immigrants, who make up 13 percent of the nation’s college-age black population, account for more than a quarter of black students at Ivy League and other selective universities, according to the study, produced by Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania

The large representation of black immigrants developed as schools’ focus shifted from restitution for decades of excluding black Americans from campuses to embracing wider diversity, the study’s authors said. The more elite the school, the more black immigrants are enrolled.

My first thought upon reading this was that, with all the roadblocks put up to Affirmative Action lately, it’s easier to fill the numbers with foreign students. But the whole issue is more complex than that.

It’s a thought-provoking article. I recommend you read it all.

ANSWER International is staging a March on the Pentagon on March 17, the 4th anniversary of the war in Iraq.

For imore nformation and local bus schedules, check the Justicelist.

Don’t miss George Ella Lyons description of the January march, War protesters did citizens’ job, in Sunday’s Lexington Herald-Leader:

Under bright blue skies, in 50-degree weather, we surrounded the Capitol, passing the Supreme Court, the Library of Congress — sacred ground.

We had come by car or plane from Lexington, Paducah, Bowling Green, Elliott and Cumberland counties; by bus from Berea and Lexington; by van from Louisville. Many had ridden all night to be part of this crowd, estimated at 400,000.

Handmade signs told why:

“Too many lives. Too little thought.”

“Purge the urge to surge!”

“Jail to the Chief!”

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Every person at the rally represented thousands more. Three of us from the Lexington Interfaith Prayer Vigil of Peace marched for those who have stood at Triangle Park weekly for five years and all who have waved or honked or given the thumbs up.

We marched for you who believe this war to be a catastrophe and want it to end.