POWELL: Privilege and belonging at Elon, diversity promotion
Our commitment to higher education should also coincide with our values as human beings. I want to believe that we still hold true the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s claim that the content of one’s character should matter more than the color of one’s skin. He had a dream of a society that cultivates love for one another, with the guarantee of basic rights and freedoms, like education, that had been stripped away from blacks because of their skin color. But do we really live this way? Is education really accessible for all? Do we all bELONg?