<p>Ive heard stories about white kids at Vanderbilt being racist against minorities, especially black people. I was gonna apply here and I'm a minority and I don't want to be a victim of racism/hate crime.</p>
<p>Sounds like you’re the racist, champ.</p>
<p>How’s that???</p>
<p>The poster has a legitimate question.</p>
<p>I wanna know too, how is the poster sounding racist? It sounds like a fair question to me.</p>
<p>If anyone is having trouble understanding what’s racist about the OP, try substituting white for black, black for white and majority for minority. Then how does it sound?</p>
<p>Okay I switched the words around. I’d still wanna know the answer.</p>
<p>The OP’s question was stated rather bluntly, but it’s not racist. If he said, I hate white people and I’ve heard at VU they will hate me back, that would be racist.</p>
<p>Now for the answer that I’m sure is universally true. Yes, there are racist whites at Vanderbilt. There are also racist URMs. You will find their racist peers at every school you are considering - whether north/south, public/private, technical/liberal arts, etc. However, they are the true minority. The overwhelming majority of people in all ethnic and racial groups are fundamentally good and just as angered by racism as you. Find them, embrace them and work to make not just your school life but also theirs a great learning and social experience.</p>
<p>I still don’t understand why people (though I’m not saying a majority of people are) at any elite university are still so closed minded. You’d think they’d be morally competent as well as intelligently.</p>
<p>Racism is everywhere. You can’t escape it, and I wouldn’t believe that any university, even an elite one, is completely free of it.</p>
<p>stupidest question ever. wherever you go you will see racists. just because some portion of the student body is racist shouldn’t be a reason for you to ask if “Vanderbilt” is racist. it has nothing to do with the school being Vandy. It’s the few people that are racist.</p>
<p>But if a large portion of the student body is racist then that is problem, which is what I’m wondering. This actually seems to be a common question on this forum so that worries me even more.</p>
<p>It’s a common question because everyone assumes that the South is still in the nineteenth century.</p>
<p>And since Vanderbilt is in the south, people vicariously think it’s racist as well.</p>
<p>Both are flawed assumptions.</p>
<p>^ Seconded.</p>
<p>Many people who have never been to the South automatically assume that southerners ride in horse-drawn carriages, live in trailers, plant cotton, drink iced tea, wear overalls, marry their cousins, and goodness knows what else.</p>
<p>It’s not true.
(Well, maybe in some parts of Alabama… heh, just kidding.)</p>
<p>Drinking iced tea DEFINITELY is still prevalent. Whenever I visit my grandparents, 1st/2nd/3rd/4th/5th cousins, and other family in Alabama, iced tea with lots of sugar is served at practically every meal. Yum. :)</p>
<p>^ Say, haven’t I seen you in the Emory board?</p>
<p>Mmmhmm. It’s my second choice, though it’s not even close to how much Vandy is my #1.</p>
<p>It seems like many people apply to both Emory and Vanderbilt, atleast when you’re from the south like us.</p>
<p>don’t you EVER diss our tradition of iced tea</p>
<p>This is very true.</p>
<p>It’s nothing compared to restaurant or store bought iced tea. Like, NOT EVEN CLOSE.</p>
<p>yeah it depends on where you go in the South- my friend, whose black, went to some hicktown in Alabama and it was covered in skin heads (and you probably know the rest of the story…). Thats why im kinda iffy between Vanderbilt and Rice</p>