Michael Myers is a former assistant national director of the NAACP and currently executive director of the New York Civil Rights Coalition. The NYCRC has long, and articulately, complained insidious racial stereotyping, as in this 2002 report on “The Stigma of Inclusion: Racial Paternalism/Separatism in Higher Education.” Today, in the Washington Post, Myers extends the argument of that report in an OpEd that defends “civil rights” the way civil rights used to be defended.
“I’m sorry to report that 52 years after Brown v. Board of Education,” he begins,
separate but equal is all the rage in certain parts of the education world — especially on college campuses where special programs are offered that target minority students for “special” and separate attention, counseling, mentoring, tutoring, residences and instruction.
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