Pittsburgh segregated and racist? (Aliquippa, Beaver Falls: high school, colleges, income)

[jenga66]

I'm a partial hispanic from CA (I'm still pretty light skinned, but my dark hair and eyes give it away) and my fiancee' is a blonde native of PA. Do I have anything to worry about in Pittsburgh? When I was in Waynesberg I kind of felt like a lot of people were leering at me just because of that.

[Hopes]

As you can read in this thread, Pittsburgh isn't known for hate crimes or racial violence.

There isn't a large hispanic population in southeastern Pennsylvania so you will be an anomaly.

You'll find more acceptance in Pittsburgh than in a more rural area like Waynesburg.

[claremarie]

Depending upon the part of Pittsburgh you live in, you might have to answer lots of sincerely curious questions from people trying to figure out your ethnic background.

[zip95]

Originally Posted by Hopes

It's important to celebrate the achievements of the alumni from the black universities. They faced adversity and forced necessary change in America.

I want to be clear that I in no way meant to belittle the acheivements of the alumni from the black universities. These are great people who have done great things.

[Katiana]

I would agree. But you have to have access to the mainstream schools to fully enter the American culture. Andrew Carnegie should have been setting an example by admitting and graduating black engineers so someone would have to hire them or fess up to being racist.

[claremarie]

But you have to have access to the mainstream schools to fully enter the American culture.

Tell that to the late Thurgood Marshall, who graduated from Howard Law School....

[Hopes]

Originally Posted by claremarie

But you have to have access to the mainstream schools to fully enter the American culture.

Tell that to the late Thurgood Marshall, who graduated from Howard Law School....

Howard wasn't a segregated university, claremarie.

Originally Posted by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_University

From its outset, [Howard] was nonsectarian and open to people of both sexes and all races.

[Katiana]

Thank you, Hopes. I was just getting ready to say that "separate but equal" did not work very well.

[claremarie]

Howard wasn't a segregated university, claremarie.

How many white students attended Howard when Thurgood Marshall did? Though open to all races, historically black colleges served primarily (and sometimes exclusively) black students. They were not "mainstream" schools, but they did provide an excellent education to students who were denied admission to "mainstream" universities.
Your argument was that students need access to "mainstream" schools in order to succeed. Thurgood Marshall is but one example that refutes your argument.
Which, of course, is not to say that separate is equal. But the notion that any black over the age of 60 was NOT ALLOWED to attend college is ludicrous, and reveals an appalling ignorance of American history.

[Hopes]

Originally Posted by claremarie

Howard wasn't a segregated university, claremarie.

How many white students attended Howard when Thurgood Marshall did? Though open to all races, historically black colleges served primarily (and sometimes exclusively) black students. They were not "mainstream" schools, but they did provide an excellent education to students who were denied admission to "mainstream" universities.

Your argument was that students need access to "mainstream" schools in order to succeed. Thurgood Marshall is but one example that refutes your argument.
Which, of course, is not to say that separate is equal. But the notion that any black over the age of 60 was NOT ALLOWED to attend college is ludicrous, and reveals an appalling ignorance of American history.

It was Pittnurse's "mainstream" argument, not mine.

It was zip's "not allowed" argument, not mine.

I merely elaborated on a comment of yours, claremarie.