Black Student Unions: A Win-Win Decision for Black Students

Courtland Milloy writes in The Washington Post:  Now that the First Kids have started classes at Sidwell Friends in Washington, they are likely to face this decision in the years to come: Whether to join the school’s Black Student Union. Or not. Will their choice matter either way? Sure, it will, unfair as that might be.

With the election of their father, Barack Obama, as the nation’s first black president, many are celebrating the dawn of a long-awaited “post-racial” America. And debates over the relevance of black groups and institutions, from BSUs to historically black colleges, are heating up once again.

In the case of the BSU at Sidwell, some post-racialists might wonder how Barack and Michelle can lead the nation toward a colorblind ideal if they don’t steer their daughters away from black groups.

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