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OP-Ed: Why Not Morehouse?
By Stephane Dunn
The calls started early in the week before Morehouse's graduation ceremony and increased after snippets of it appeared on national television. I saw your school on CNN and Fox News, they'd say. "Got the white boy all over TV like that's the most outstanding thing ever to happen at Morehouse."
The 'white boy' of course is Joshua Packwood, the valedictorian for Morehouse's class of 2008.
Some of the internal conversation at Morehouse and within the black community has centered on the question of whether a young white man should be valedictorian of historically black Morehouse and what it says about the school.
And there's another disturbing question which has become the center of media attention about Packwood's presence at Morehouse: Why would a stellar, white male student with Ivy League attention and potential choose Morehouse?
But there is a better question: Why not Morehouse?
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Stephane Dunn is a visiting assistant professor of English at Morehouse College and the author of Baad Bitches" and Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Action Films (University of Illinois Press, 2008)
OP-Ed: Why Not Morehouse?
By Stephane Dunn
The calls started early in the week before Morehouse's graduation ceremony and increased after snippets of it appeared on national television. I saw your school on CNN and Fox News, they'd say. "Got the white boy all over TV like that's the most outstanding thing ever to happen at Morehouse."
The 'white boy' of course is Joshua Packwood, the valedictorian for Morehouse's class of 2008.
Some of the internal conversation at Morehouse and within the black community has centered on the question of whether a young white man should be valedictorian of historically black Morehouse and what it says about the school.
And there's another disturbing question which has become the center of media attention about Packwood's presence at Morehouse: Why would a stellar, white male student with Ivy League attention and potential choose Morehouse?
But there is a better question: Why not Morehouse?
Read the Full Essay
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Stephane Dunn is a visiting assistant professor of English at Morehouse College and the author of Baad Bitches" and Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Action Films (University of Illinois Press, 2008)
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