Tuesday, March 04, 2003
Our campus office of diversity recently sent out an email advertising the upcoming campus diversity week. Part of this email was a graphic depicting three hands forming a circle with some other fru-fru around the hands. The hands are colored black, red and yellow presumably to represent african americans, native americans and asian/latin americans. I thought it was interesting that they didn't think to increase the diversity of their image by including a hand to represent european americans or (since we really don't deserve a politically correct term) whites. It could be that I am just being picky about this, but this same office of diversity gave us all literature when I started going to school here. In this literature was a photo representing the student body here on campus, except that they forgot to have a token white person in their photo full of racially diverse individuals. I guess that since we represent the majority population in this country and here on campus, we are just not diverse enough to be included with the more diverse ethnic groups. Let it be known that the definition of diversity does not include whitey.