White valedictorian in Nigger College

[Phil_88]

http://www.charlotte.com/nation/story/619442.html
ATLANTA --
From his first day at Morehouse College - the country's only institution of higher learning dedicated to the education of black men - Joshua Packwood has been a standout.

His popularity got him elected dorm president as a freshman. His looks and physique made him a fashion-show favorite. His intellect made him a Rhodes Scholar finalist. His work ethic landed him a job at the prestigious investment banking firm Goldman Sachs in New York City.

But it's his skin that has made all of this an anomaly. This month, Packwood is set to take the stage and address his classmates as the first white valedictorian in Morehouse's 141-year history.

The 22-year-old from Kansas City, Mo., will graduate on May 18 with a perfect 4.0 GPA and a degree in economics.

He could have gone elsewhere, to a school like Columbia, Stanford or Yale, but his four-year journey through Morehouse has taught him a few things that they could not, and he makes it clear that he has no regrets.

"I've been forced to see the world in a different perspective, that I don't think I could've gotten anywhere else," he said. "None of the Ivies, no matter how large their enrollment is, no matter how many Nobel laureates they have on their faculty ... none of them could've provided me with the perspective I have now."

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When Packwood applied to Morehouse, he had frequent conversations with George Gray, an alumnus who was a recruiter at the school. Gray was impressed by Packwood's credentials and spent months trying to talk the sought-after senior into choosing Morehouse over other elite schools.

"He had outstanding numbers," said Gray, now director of admissions at historically black Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Ark. "He was the kind of kid we were looking for to be a presidential scholar."

After several conversations, Packwood began to suspect that Gray had no idea that he was white. His suspicions were confirmed when one of Gray's calls caught Packwood in the middle of track practice.

"Don't let the white kids walk you down," Gray quipped.

"Wait," Packwood responded. "You know I'm white, right?"

Silence. Uneasy laughter. Confirmation.

"The challenge was to get the best student that we could, and Josh definitely fit that," Gray said.

And for Packwood, knowing that he had been picked on his merits, and not as a token white recruit, made the difference.

"That said I could come here and, ironically, be accepted for who I am," Packwood said. "I thought I made the right decision then, and I know I made the right decision now."

It was not as if this was the first time Packwood experienced life in the minority. He was among the few white students in his class at Grandview Senior High School in Kansas City, Mo. He has mixed-race siblings and his mother was married to a black man. Packwood's experiences growing up have helped him navigate black culture while remaining comfortable with his own complexion.

Packwood's mere presence on campus wouldn't make history at this school founded by a black minister and cabinetmaker two years after the end of the Civil War. Howard Zehr, Morehouse's first white student, graduated in 1966, and there have been dozens of other whites on campus since.

And so Packwood turned down Columbia University, postponing his dream of living in New York City. He ignored some in his family who warned that he might not have the same opportunities he would have as a Columbia graduate, and headed South.

Packwood still laughs when he remembers his first day on campus, wandering the grounds in pajama pants and getting stares from black classmates who wondered if the freshman wasn't a wayward student from Georgia Tech, Georgia State or perhaps Emory University.

After convincing the photographer to take his student ID, Packwood headed to his room in Brazeal Hall. Shortly after, his roommate arrived with his mother. Four years later, Packwood still can't get over the irony: After years of being one of a few blacks at majority-white schools in Dallas, Phillip Smithey had come to Morehouse to get the "black experience."

Instead, he was sharing a room with the only white guy in his class.

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When he came to Morehouse, Packwood was sweating a bit under his swagger, which is why he was reluctant to run for president of his dorm at the end of his freshman year. The novelty was wearing off, but Packwood didn't want his new friends to think he was the white guy trying to "act black" or take over their school.

Classes proved to be a challenge socially and academically when the discussions shifted to issues of race. Once, Packwood was asked to sit on a panel about interracial relationships. Though he had dated black girls since high school, he spent the first hour of the panel getting warmed up, feeling out the crowd and trying to couch his thoughts.

"It was kind of heated, and there were very strong views on both sides," he said. "But eventually I realized they put me on the panel not to just pander to the crowd, but to voice my opinion."

Packwood said such exchanges taught him a lesson.

"Sometimes I kind of wanted to hold back," he acknowledged. "A lot of the professors and students have been like, 'No, don't hold back. We want your perspective here. If we're not going to get it from you, it's going to be very difficult for us to get it somewhere else.'"

Both students and faculty, he said, seemed to appreciate his honesty.

"The few times I have held back and tried to pick my words wisely or even go against what I truly believe, that's when I've caught the most flak," he said.

With each semester, Packwood's grades remained high, his confidence grew and his resume became more impressive. Summers were spent on Wall Street at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, he studied abroad in London and Costa Rica, and his studies have taken him to China and Switzerland.

He also drew attention with his looks - some Atlanta University Center coeds took to calling him "Tom Cruise." His photo album on Facebook shows a smiling Packwood posing with dozens of young, black women who fill his page with notes.

As Morehouse embraced him, Packwood became an unlikely ambassador for the school.

"Josh Packwood is Morehouse," the college's president, Robert Franklin, said in his inauguration speech in February. "He happens to be Euro-American and brings much appreciated diversity to our campus."

Wendell Marsh, a junior English and French major who is black, said talking to Packwood as a high school senior helped make up his mind to come to Morehouse.

"Right now we live in a time where people say the black institution is obsolete, that you can get a better education at a majority institution," Marsh said. "To see a white guy who had declined Harvard for Morehouse, I figured it was good enough for me."

Packwood raised "the bar for everyone," said Stanton Fears, a senior economics major.

"The best man got it, that's how I look at it," Fears said. "It's about equality here, too. If he wants to come here and make a name for himself, he should be allowed the same types of things we're allowed."

Being surrounded by black men for his undergraduate career has taught him more about diversity, Packwood said.

"I've been here for four years and yet, I cannot give you the definition of black," he said. "I cannot tell you what a black man is. I really learned to look much deeper. It takes a lot of effort to know people."

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Shake. Lean. Embrace. Release. The soulful ritual is repeated several times as Packwood greets his fellow classmates on one of his last days on campus. Some congratulated him amid the buzz that he might be named valedictorian. There were those who thought there would be some bitterness, but animosity for Packwood's accomplishments was scarce that day.

Brandon L. Douglas, a junior business major who met Packwood as an intern on Wall Street after his freshman year, said Packwood has been a standout not for his skin, but for his successes on campus.

"He kind of sticks out, but he's still relatable and he works with all of us," Douglas said. "You don't see a skin color with him anymore. You start looking more at his character."

Douglas' words echo the most famous words of Morehouse's most famous alumnus, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., in his "I Have A Dream" speech. Not far from where Packwood is standing looms a towering statue of King, his bronze finger pointing toward the horizon.

It's just a coincidence, but on this day, King is pointing toward Packwood.

[Sean Martin]

College full of Negroes and it is obvious the white guy stood out in looks, intelligence and attitude not to mention work ethic. You mean the televitz lied, all white people are not fat, lazy and stupid while all darkies are athletes and geniuses with award winning personalities?

Not surprisingly the kikes at Goldman snapped him up. The perfect poster boy after being indoctrinated by kike teachers and being around all darkies. The perfect candidate to sell the white race down the river and take the fall when the jew scheme gets cracked wide open.

[Axel Faaborg]

My high school was around 75% Mestizo, 15% Black, 5% White, and 5% Other. My graduating class had a White Valedictorian, a girl at that.

Nice girl too, if a bit insane. I could have been it but I didn't feel the need to take all the honors courses to get my GPA above the 4.0s(though all my teachers tried rigorously to recruit me into them, and scolded me when I turned them down.) Plus, I was far too busy drinking myself to death back then to bother with extra work.

I'm surprised the guy made it through all 4 years alive, not that he's the best at everything there.

[Sam Hall]

Originally Posted by AZDane

My high school was around 75% Mestizo, 15% Black, 5% White, and 5% Other. My graduating class had a White Valedictorian, a girl at that.

Nice girl too, if a bit insane. I could have been it but I didn't feel the need to take all the honors courses to get my GPA above the 4.0s(though all my teachers tried rigorously to recruit me into them, and scolded me when I turned them down.) Plus, I was far too busy drinking myself to death back then to bother with extra work.

I'm surprised the guy made it through all 4 years alive, not that he's the best at everything there.

With those demographics I would have been a bit insane as well. Wait...uh-oh.

[Axel Faaborg]

Originally Posted by Sam Hall

With those demographics I would have been a bit insane as well. Wait...uh-oh.

Oh, I'm quite insane. At least according to the Jew psychiatrists.

She, though, was insane for a different reason. She was so obsessed with being the best academically that it overtook her entire life. I know for a fact she used ritalin when she didn't need it for that reason.

[melcur]

Can you imagine standing before a group of intelligent Whites bragging about your 4.0 from a nigger college?

[Oprichniki]

[M. Kraus]

It was not as if this was the first time Packwood experienced life in the minority. He was among the few white students in his class at Grandview Senior High School in Kansas City, Mo. He has mixed-race siblings and his mother was married to a black man. Packwood's experiences growing up have helped him navigate black culture while remaining comfortable with his own complexion.

This explains so much. I was wondering why any White kid in his right mind would want to attend a nigger "college".

"Complexion", my ass.

[Vox Populae]

Yeah but if you think about it, it does make sense in one way because the bar is so low at a nigger college just about all whites can just step over it and become valedictorian.

[Axel Faaborg]

Originally Posted by melcur

Can you imagine standing before a group of intelligent Whites bragging about your 4.0 from a nigger college?

Hell, I went to a spic high school and I got a 4.0 despite being stoned out of my mind and drunk 70-80% of the time for four years. It seriously was a total fucking cakewalk.

[The Bobster]

I went to a spic HS and got terrible grades. It seems that in the name of "fairness", the teachers would take 15-20 points off my grades and give them to "deserving" cane-cutters. Then they'd gush right in front of me about how well these "new industrious arrivals" were doing. If I didn't hate spics and liberals before then, I certainly did afterward.

[Axel Faaborg]

Originally Posted by The Bobster

I went to a spic HS and got terrible grades. It seems that in the name of "fairness", the teachers would take 15-20 points off my grades and give them to "deserving" cane-cutters. Then they'd gush right in front of me about how well these "new industrious arrivals" were doing. If I didn't hate spics and liberals before then, I certainly did afterward.

Interesting. I had a white history teacher say to me in front of the entire class that my hand-written essay question answers were completely illegible(and it's true, I have terrible handwriting,) yet he gave me perfect scores on them regardless, because it was painfully obvious through the class time between tests that I was the only person in the class who actually knew the material.

[Frank Toliver]

So many lols, it's like a factory.

[Karl Lueger]

Its like a pro-athlete winning Gold medal at the special Olympics,
yeah its cool to get the gold, but competition wise...this kids pretty smart though, not just academically, great way of being noticed..
talk about Natural Order, White man comes in and obviously excels compared to groids, but at least the uppity "nigger academics" had a dose of reality.
Next turn is for an Asian to repeat the achievement, being thats all the soys ever do is copy White..but whats next for Josh?
Probly' he's gonna be the next mayor of Detroit...

[Phil Ludvig...]

I quit going to school when my district changed to busing as a way to integrate the schools.

I was bussed two and a half hours across town through heavy traffic every morning and every afternoon to an ALL Black school.

I was basically the only White student in that school... I fought or was bullied most every day... finally I had enough... I quit... and joined the Navy.

[Axel Faaborg]

Originally Posted by Phil Ludvig

I quit going to school when my district changed to busing as a way to integrate the schools.

I was bussed two and a half hours across town through heavy traffic every morning and every afternoon to an ALL Black school.

I was basically the only White student in that school... I fought or was bullied most every day... finally I had enough... I quit... and joined the Navy.

Someday I want to write a book chronicling what it was like for the WHITE kids being bussed to BLACK schools. There's plenty of books on the reverse.

[KMRATHELL]

Originally Posted by Phil_88

http://www.charlotte.com/nation/story/619442.html

"He has mixed-race siblings and his mother was married to a black man."

The real story here is his mother is a race traitor piece of shit and has passed on her love for niggers to her son.

[odin]

Originally Posted by AZDane

Someday I want to write a book chronicling what it was like for the WHITE kids being bussed to BLACK schools. There's plenty of books on the reverse.

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[General_Lee]

Originally Posted by Phil Ludvig

I quit going to school when my district changed to busing as a way to integrate the schools.

I was bussed two and a half hours across town through heavy traffic every morning and every afternoon to an ALL Black school.

I was basically the only White student in that school... I fought or was bullied most every day... finally I had enough... I quit... and joined the Navy.

I had just started the first grade when the feds started enforcing Brown down here. I would have gladly quit too, but my parents sent me to a segregation academy.

GREL

[Justin Lee]

I thought "schools" were just places to go fight with embittered, unreasonable minorities...

I wasn't aware they like, taught you stuff.

Wow. What a concept.

Seriously, I had a friend, we used to ditch school to go to the UofA library because the campus was the only place where the gang warfare was under some degree of control. I'd like to tell you we went there to go get a higher education...but in reality, it was something to do until 3:00pm, when the cops wouldn't harass you for not being in school.

Mostly we just lusted over college girls and looked for parties to crash.