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Racial Harmony

These exchange programs have
been funded with Federal money,
under some huge law designed to
promote integration; in particular,
my tuition is what I would have
paid at the University, and the
difference is being made up by the
government money.

So one of the purposes of these
articles is to make University
students aware of the opportunities
at Hampton; especially those
interested in mass media, television,
radio, journalism; or those
interested in Afro-American
studies, in music, literature, history,
etc.; or several other of Hampton's
strengths. A continual exchange
would probably encourage both
schools to widen their offerings
into areas the other is now strong
in.

And then there is another
purpose, and that is to support
racial harmony. There's been
prejudice against blacks for a damn
long time, and the University has
been as guilty as anyone of
spreading it: in uncountable ways, it
still spreads many of these myths
and stereotypes.