Hey Everyone,
I am curious to hear alumni thoughts on race relations and how they played out in the context of buggy. In particular how buggy treated black students over the years. I am familiar with what many black buggy alumni and students have said to me but I would like to hear from the perspective of non black buggy alumni and current students. Was Buggy always a welcoming place for black students on campus or was there some initial resistance as usually is the case? Was there mistreatment? Was there full blown racism? You don't have to name names but it would probably be good if you are brave and courageous enough to name which orgs were involved in any of the issues if there were any. This tends to be a very taboo topic on campus and many people at CMU love to forget about incidents of discrimination as if they were isolated incidents and not an actual problem with the school. Having this open dialogue can be helpful in actually bringing this community closer if we are able to talk about these things. We talk a lot about the positives but very rarely about the big negatives. Let's change that!!
-Concerned Black Man