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Social Impact | March 17, 2015

Racial insensitivity on campus

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You might think that leading evangelical schools like Wheaton College would be beyond racial insensitivity

Wheaton College (Creative Commons/Photo by Christoffer Lukas Müller)

You might think that leading evangelical schools like Wheaton College, my alma mater, would be beyond racial insensitivity. Sadly, no. On Feb. 28, at a football team gathering, a group of players acted out a skit parodying a scene from the Martin Lawrence and Will Smith movie Bad Boys II, where the players wore Ku Klux Klan robes and carried Confederate flags. The controversy quickly expanded beyond the bucolic suburban Chicago campus, as word spread over the following days and weeks through social media and major media outlets.

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