Go Ahead, Morris. Mix To Your Heart’s Content. November 12, 2007
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Columbus (Ga.) Ledger-Enquirer:
Rarely do I open mass e-mails. I don’t mean the ones that tell me I can grow this or shrink that. Most of those are filtered out these days, thank goodness. No, I’m talking about the ones from such groups as the Committee to Elect a Crazy Candidate or the National Association of People Who Like to Meet and Clog Your Inbox.
But every now and then you get one that piques your interest. I got one of those this week from the Southern Poverty Law Center. Never before had I gotten an e-mail from the SPLC, which is surprising since I’m very Southern and my banking account is the very definition of poverty.
The subject line was “Mix It Up at Lunch Day.” I thought the term “mix it up” generally referred to fighting. I didn’t know whether the SPLC was encouraging folks to slug it out at the salad bar or start a food fight, either of which would be pretty cool.
Alas, that’s not the case. Tuesday is the sixth annual “Mix It Up at Lunch Day,” in which students across the nation are encouraged to break out of their little cafeteria cliques and break down social boundaries by sitting with people of a different race, different class or different fashion. It’s pretty wild. Literally, you could have kids wearing Abercrombie & Fitch sitting right next to kids wearing Aeropostale.
How about “mixing it up” in the overwhelmingly white SPLC Headquarters?
Besides, as more and more schools “mix up” their lunchrooms, this decreases the likelihood that their white students will join the SPLC as adults, and increase the likelihood that they will join the CofCC as adults.
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