soar conference

this past weekend i took some time off from spring breaking at home to travel down to hartford, ct to participate in the SOAR conference aka society organized against racism (in new england higher education) which was pretty interesting although much better at talking about stuff than actually coming up with anything about what to do about it or how to think about what's going on. some interesting speakers from the 60s, including charles mcdew who started SNCC. maybe i'll write more thoughts on that later, or put up some of my notes from the conference. but one other thing that was particularly interesting to me was that i was one of a handful of asians and i'm not even just counting east asians, that includes south asians too and could probably even include the middle east which is technically southwest asia. it was a very typically expected group of people, black and white. now i'm not saying that that's a bad thing, just that racism on college campuses doesn't just affect black people, the most recent event on my college campus happened against an asian girl. i guess all i'm saying is that i wish there was more variety because it is an issue and it's not just a matter of black and white.