s. This might be one of the reasons that blacks andwhites do not mix well in colleges.In 1994, a principal from an Alabama high school opposed interracial couples'attending his school's prom. The students and parents protested, saying that the kids hadthe right to take whoever they wanted to prom. Although he was fired as principal, hisideas have left their mark, that students should stay away from other races. He probablyisn't the only principal or authority figure that thinks this way. When students learn thisbehavior from high school and their parents they take it on to college with them.When these diverse backgrounds get mixed together in college, manyconfrontations occur. The movie Higher Learning is a great example of the way manycollege campuses are today. There are many groups of students going to the same school,ranging from whites to blacks to Asians and different religions such as Catholics, Jews,Muslims, etc. Of course, there are even hate groups. In the movie, a group of neo-nazis donot want to have anything to do with the blacks or Jews who go to that college. Usually theblacks tend to stay away from the group so as not to be a part of a fight but one can onlytake so much. There are numerous beatings and verbal assaults against the blacks; and,when they try to fight back the police always take for granted who started the fighting, andarrest the black "troublemakers". By the end of the movie, there is a peace march on thecampus and the nazis don't like it. The group persuades one of the members to go to thetop of a large building with a gun and open fire on the peace marchers. He does and ablack woman ends up getting shot. Her boyfriend runs to the top of the building andproceeds to beat the nazi. The cops find them both, drag the black man off and start tobeat him as if he just picked a fight for no reason! As the cops approach the white student,he becomes frightened and sticks the gun in his mouth. He says if they come an...
