Stanley Crouch briefly mentions his experience with racial groups at the Claremont Colleges in yesterday's New York Daily News. Crouch draws on his experience at the Claremont Colleges as he skeptically responds to the alleged hate crime at Columbia. He writes:
The reason I am skeptical of the Columbia incident is that when I taught at the Claremont Colleges from 1968 to 1975, it was not unusual for some black students to send racist mail to themselves to manipulate the administration when negotiations about campus racial policies were at a tipping point.I don't think I will ever understand why people take this kind of drastic action. Why do people want to bring down a community with those kinds of scurrilous accusations?
P.S. If anyone knows which college Crouch taught at, I'd love to know.
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