Black Nontraditional Looking At Univ. of Idaho MFA Theatre (Boise: lawyers, bankruptcy)

[KwasiBuff]

Hello everyone! First a bit about myself. I am a liberal, 41 year old single black male (never married, no children) attending University of Mississippi earning my BFA in theatre production and design. I graduate in Spring 2017 and I am looking at graduate schools, particularly University of Idaho. Does anyone have any information about UoI MFA theatre program? Also I would like to know what living in Moscow ID is like for African Americans. I am a bicycle commuter and I am wondering if Moscow is a bicycle friendly city. Any information on the above would be greatly appreciated.

[Shaner]

Hello, being a black, liberal in MI must be hard, I imagine doing it in Moscow will be a cake walk. I don't know about the Theater program, but if its anything like the other graduate programs, it will be stellar (besides our football team, mother of god....) Moscow is really diverse when it comes to the campus. My cousin does a lot of their student outreach and I think you will find it very much to you're liking. As far as bicycling, it shouldn't be a problem, unless there is a bunch of snow, then your walking.

Hope that helps!

[Sandpointian]

Moscow is a nice place in a tranquil and pretty setting.It is small and small town, but I can see a bicycle-theatre guy enjoying himself there.

I do not think skin color is an issue. The only exceptions would have to do with bringing big city attitudes and importing baggage that is more relevant and apropos to other states and cities.

Liberal vs. conservative is not a worry-- these terms have lost their meaning even amongst those tooting their respective horns. NID is more about chill, live and let live, respect, courtesy, and appreciation. The ones who actively pursue the fascism of the left or right raise the ire of the silent majority.

S.

[banjomike]

[MOD CUT]

Idaho, despite its reputation, is not any different that all the other red states in the West. Conservatives have a majority, but Idaho has always had all political shades here and always will.

You are free to express your personal beliefs, but don't try to represent the rest of us in them. people with all shades of political belief are still very welcome here, as are people of all races and faiths.

There will never come a day when barricades and loyalty oaths will be needed to move to Idaho. Trying to claim such an anti-American offense exists is both repugnant and completely false.

Kwasibuff- This post shows opposite sides of what exists here. While idaho doesn't have a sizeable number of black folks, the number is increasing slowly and steadily of where it was when I was a kid growing up here.

I've lived in the top, middle and bottom areas of this state over my lifetime. And in each, I have known a few black folks who lived here with no trouble. If anything, we are much more racially tolerant now than in my earlier times in all our larger cities.
If you were to move to one of our small towns, I'm sure you would be met with more curiosity than hostility.

While its obvious a few exceptions still remain, Idaho's brief period of militant racism, brought in by white supremacists largely by the actions of one Californian transplant, ended over 25 years ago when the Aryan Nations compound and the group was driven into bankruptcy by the Southern Poverty Law Center's lawyers.

The lawyer's fees were paid by a native Idahoan, and the city of Coeur d'Alene had fought that little bunch of losers from the first. Richard Butler, their leader died alone and forgotten in western Washington, and his group and the compound itself are both long gone. Idaho got branded, and no matter what the facts are, we never approved of them nor wanted them living amongst us.

So there you have it. I'm completely sure you won't have discrimination problems here anywhere. Moscow is a good school for liberal arts, but so is Boise State. You might want to check them both out before you make a decision on one alone. I have attended both, never graduated from either.

[VandalsLOL]

Go visit Moscow. I think you'll enjoy it there.... if you like small, isolated towns, which it is.

Basically, you have Pullman and Moscow, two small towns with tens of thousands of college kids, with no real city within an hour of the place. It takes a certain person, but if you like it, there might not be a better residential college area in the country (the Palouse).

The liberal thing, your race... likely isn't an issue unless it's an issue for you (in that one might crave being part of similar groups, etc.). Idaho can be a little... backwards in its thinking, and a bit resistant to political correctness at times, so just know that.

Moscow is a great biking area when there's no snow on the ground!

[Keim]

I've lived in Moscow for twenty years. I echo most of the above. I could debate VandalsLOL comments about isolated (Spokane is an easy day trip), but that is a matter of perspective.

About the only comment I ever hear about race around here is from folks wishing there were more minorities. Nothing negative.

[VandalsLOL]

Well, I didn't mean it negatively. It is what it is: over an hour to Spokane.

[Keim]

Originally Posted by VandalsLOL

Well, I didn't mean it negatively. It is what it is: over an hour to Spokane.

Like I said-matter of perspective.

[Disciple1975]

Originally Posted by Keim

Like I said-matter of perspective.

It does seem pretty isolated to me.

[VandalsLOL]

From a theoretical physics perspective, time certainly is a matter of perspective!!!