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Quite an article from the New Haven Register - click link for full story...


Racism tears through Providence College

New Haven Register
May6, 2013

www.nhregister.com/articles/2013/05/05/news/doc5187266841f52505913592.txt?viewmode=fullstory


excerpt:

Ben Alves, 22, a junior from Boston, said he and two friends who are also minorities were recently asked to show their IDs while playing basketball at the gym, though they had already swiped them to get in. He said white students weren’t asked to do the same.

“You can walk into any setting — the library, the gym — and you will be questioned and eyes will fall on you because you stand out,” said Alves, who is of Cape Verdean descent.

Juan Beato-Lopez, 21, a black Latino from Worcester, Mass., said he was once prevented from buying books in the campus store until he returned with additional identification, and was told by a cafeteria worker while speaking Spanish that he should “speak American” because “this is America.