<p>Was Brown University originally a school reserved for brown people? I know Brown practices affirmative action and prefers dark skinned people over people with lighter shades right now. What about in the past? Just wondering.</p>
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<p>Really?</p>
<p>Yes, in 1764 a university was founded for people with brown skin and they named it Brown University. </p>
<p>or you could use your keyboard and find information on your own: [Brown</a> Admission: Our History](<a href=“Undergraduate Admission | Brown University”>Undergraduate Admission | Brown University)</p>
<p>The website states that Brown is dedicated to “diversity.” I’m not getting a clear answer.</p>
<p>Do you know any US history? It might help you here…</p>
<p>no. read the Wikipedia on Brown. the school is named after a donor.</p>
<p>Thanks februarypisces. You people are so rude! I was only asking a question.</p>
<p>[How</a> to ask a question](<a href=“http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375]How”>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375) by Microsoft</p>
<p>some people on this forum are rude & don’t think about how it freflects on the school 
although I agree people should search for answers to their questions before jumping to a forum it doesn’t hurt others to be polite.</p>
<p>This made me lol</p>
<p>I apologize if I was rude. Let me fix the response.</p>
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<p>Hello akman159, </p>
<p>I’d recommend reading up on the early history of the United States. Most of us assume you understand the most basic history if you are on this forum since most of the users are in high school and have taken the courses necessary to have this basic understanding. To give it to you briefly, slave trade was big business for quite some time in this part of the world. Racism was prevalent and non-whites were looked down upon. Brown University even had its hand in slave trade. Religious freedom was quite the topic back then and Rhode Island was founded by Roger Williams who split off from the other colonies and made his own. So Brown was the first school open to a person from any religion.</p>
<p>To quote a piece from Brown’s wikipedia (a website where you can easily find simplified info about anything) article, “The Brown family — Nicholas, John, Joseph and Moses — were instrumental in the move to Providence, funding and organizing much of the construction of the new buildings. The family’s connection with the college was strong: Joseph Brown became a professor of Physics at the University, and John Brown served as treasurer from 1775 to 1796. In 1804, a year after John Brown’s death, the University was renamed Brown University in honor of John’s nephew, Nicholas Brown, Jr., who was a member of the class of 1786 and in 1804 contributed $5,000 toward an endowed professorship. In 1904, the John Carter Brown Library was opened as a research center on Americas based on the libraries of John Carter Brown and his son John Nicholas Brown.” [Brown</a> University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_University]Brown”>Brown University - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>In other words, if you were to ask someone whether a school named after the color of skin of a group of people who were not favored by society in 1804, people might think you are messing with them or “■■■■■■■■” (an internet term for stirring up trouble).</p>
<p>rofl at wolfmanjack</p>
<p>rofl at wolfmanjack </p>
<p>his posts constantly make my day. xDDD</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>epic win</p>
<p>Ironically, if one took that literally, the closest answer would be Dartmouth.</p>
<p>■■■■■ post. Poster has a long history on CC – not some innocently naive international applicant</p>
<p>Thanks for giving me a laugh during this horrible week akman hahahahaa</p>
<p>T26E4: Why are you so quick to assume that internationals are naive? Are you, perhaps, insinuating that internationals are less intelligent? I mean, I’m an international, and I think I’m pretty well informed/read.</p>
<p>Not at all what he was implying.</p>
<p>To say that some internationals are, unintentionally, politically-incorrect due to cultural and linguistic barriers is logically disparate from suggesting that internationals are inherently less intelligent people.</p>
<p>Or did you not get that because you’re an international?</p>
<p>;)</p>
<p>Brown was founded by a slave trader.</p>
<p>Things have come full circle.</p>