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Here is a quote from The Post and Courier in an article titled "Nobody Looks Like Me"

Black mentors are very important to black students, said senior Giovanni Richardson. "To be honest, we're more comfortable talking to someone who looks like us," she said.

Now I'm a white male so I knooow I have no perspective on anything - if you can't tell I'm rolling my eyes - but what if I said this same thing? That I was more comfortable learning from a white professor.

Now I'm all for diversity and I welcome all opinions, but come on! Until we start acting like race isn't an issue RACE IS ALWAYS GOING TO BE AN ISSUE. The African American community included.