Today I am pleased to present a guest commentary from FR reader Gary Aminoff. Gary is the President of the San Fernando Valley Republican Club, and also serves as Treasurer of the Los Angeles County Republican Party. I hope you enjoy his column…
ETHNIC GRADUATIONS ARE ANTI-AMERICAN
by Gary Aminoff
When I attended UCLA it was a multi-racial, multi-ethnic and multi-cultural campus. There were students from nearly every country, every religion and all races. Yet, most students thought of themselves as Bruins and as Americans. We were all graduated in a single commencement ceremony which made us feel we were all part of a single community
John Leo, in the City Journal, writes an article entitled, Let the segregation begin, in which he describes the various commencement ceremonies at UCLA.
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June 19th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Excellent observation, Gary. On a related topic, supporters of the so-called comprehensive immigration reform bill argue that its not amnesty because it contains a “path to citizenship.” Immigrants uninterested in assimilating are unlikely to go down the citizenship path, but will remain in the country benefiting from the many entitlements already in place.
June 20th, 2007 at 12:00 am
The UC choice to separate / segregate graduation ceremonies only furthers to enforce racial elitism. It should be by area of study, or college, and that’s all. If I attended classes for several years with another student, studied the same material, took the same tests, and had the same requirements then why would I have a separate ceremony based on my ethnicity.
June 21st, 2007 at 12:00 am
I saw the start of racial seperatism at the University of California
while a student at the San Diego campus in the early 1970s.
At that point, it consisted of racially-seperated areas in campus
dorms in one of the colleges.
This sick virus has been in the UC system a long time.
June 21st, 2007 at 12:00 am
Take the politics out of this. All college kids are concerned with is partying. Off campus socials should be all inclusive. I say this because I had lots of fun in college socializing with my freinds of different economic and ethnic backgrounds. You dont “Need to keep um separated.”