The whole “Don Black is just like us, just racist” attitude that some posters here are spouting is a little laughable. No, I don’t feel sympathy for someone that’s openly racist and is fundamentally against my existence. There’s a difference between “Susie came home with purple hair and talking about advanced feminist theory” and “Susie is no longer a white nationalist”. Isnt parenthood is about teaching children how to be thinkers, not teaching them what to think? Yes it’s important to reach out to people different from you and try to relate to them (as this article proves), but that doesn’t mean that the values you talk to your kids about and the illogical bigotry that Black spews are analogous. Sure, it can be sad to see a child making decisions that you wouldn’t make, but you should also be happy that they’re coming into their own.
Beyond that, this article proves the importance of having diversity in school. So many posters here talk about needing admissions to be strictly by the numbers without regards to diversity (race, sexuality, religion, opinion, SES, etc.) but all that breeds is homogenous communities. In a homogenous community it is hard to be challenged in your views. So the next time someone argues that “XYZ” add nothing to the student-body on paper, tell them to read this.