[Alumni-chat] RE: [DC] Paste this Antioch produced 30 sec. video into your URL

[Yazz D. Atlas]

I believe the video in question is this one.

http://antirecord.org/node/337

If not could you provide the correct URL.

-Yazz

On Apr 16, 2007, at 1:05 PM, Gare Calhoun wrote:

>
> Subject: RE: [DC] Paste this Antioch produced 30 sec. video into  
> your URL
> 	box/browser! Hit GO!
> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:56:02 -0400
>
> As a graduate (’74) of the Baltimore-Washington campus, which had a  
> fair
> contingent of black folks, I’m left wondering how diverse Antioch is
> today.  It seemed that the only one image, that of “Mr. T”,  
> represented
> people of color in this YouTube video.  As an African-American of the
> lighter persuasion (a bit of Native American and a definite helping of
> European in my heritage) I apologize to the students appearing in the
> video if I didn’t recognize if they were also a person of color.   
> If you
> saw an image of me flash by, you might not recognize me as being  
> African
> American either.
>
> Am I being too sensitive? Perhaps, but I think it begs the question  
> why
> Mr. T was the sole (or is it soul ;-) image of a black person to be
> featured.
>
> No “big thing”, just an observation.
>
> Irv