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This whole thing is just mind boggling to me. You know about 3 blocks from Yale is the projects right? Almost entirely black, and the school system has failed so bad they have to bus kids to other schools because they are technically denying them an education when they go to that school. They bus these kids into majority white schools, where they go through their teen years awkward and isolated as one of the one or two black kids in a 300 person class. If you were young, intellegent, and black at Yale, looking at the inequalities literally surrounding you, wouldn't you be pissed? They are college students trying to improve the world. Their methods need some work, but why is everyone so pissed about this? Because some black 18 year olds argued with a professor and were wrong? Do you know how many times white kids do the same thing and it doesn't make national headlines? Daily, and with much less justification. Their methods need work, bit I think their heart is in the right place. I don't know if I'd say the same for people who are treating arguing students like national news.