Professor Vick's Talk

Thursday Februaruy 25th was the highly-anticipated talk by Professor Vick on Racial Prejudice and Obama's Presidency.

As the title suggests, the talk was very enthralling and interesting and all forty plus attendees were deeply focused on her eloquent words.

Vick's talk discussed the political age we are in now and whether Obama being elected as president has led America into a New Age of Tolerance or A New Modern Racism.

She highlighted through her talk that these two terms are more similar than they appear and addressed the fact that Obama's election has perhaps had more of a negative effect on racial prejudice than we realize.

The talk followed many studies done on measuring racism in relation to Obama, one of which interestingly suggested that some voters opposed Obama not because of his policies, party, or his progress, but his race.

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Political cartoon addressing the topic at hand

Further dampening our spirits, Vick presented news clippings that revealed an increasing rise in race crimes during Obama's campaign and how suddenly, race was not the elephant in the room anymore.

Vick speaks on the rise in race-hate crimes during Obama's campaign

The news was not all disheartening. Professor Vick ended her captivating reminding all that it is still early in Obama's presidency and perhaps, things will turn out for the better.

Here's to hoping change will come.

*All photos courtesy of Whitman's newspaper, The Pioneer.