American Experience | Freedom Riders -- Meet the Students

[Benny B]

Meet the Students -- From May 6-16, 2011 forty college students will join original Freedom Riders in retracing the historic 1961 Rides, and explore the state of civic engagement today.

[Parker]

Meet the Students -- From May 6-16, 2011 forty college students will join original Freedom Riders in retracing the historic 1961 Rides, and explore the state of civic engagement today.

Very interesting...

[Benny B]

Very interesting...

Should be good. Let's make it a point to watch it and then we can discourse about it here, GL.    Sound good? I realize 95% of get big are semi-illiterate racist morons who have never set foot on a university campus, but those of us who are educated and interested in American history should watch and discuss.

[The RedMeatKid]

They should be in class reading Homer, Ovid, Virgil, Euripides, Milton, Shakespeare, Holy Bible, etc.  Instead they are packed off like Cub Scouts on a field trip.  That's no University.  What it is, is a disgrace.

[Benny B]

They should be in class reading Homer, Ovid, Virgil, Euripides, Milton, Shakespeare, Holy Bible, etc.  Instead they are packed off like Cub Scouts on a field trip.  That's no University.  What it is, is a disgrace.

They study all of those things too, my friend. I suspect you never attended college. 

What happens is that the EXCEPTIONAL students are given opportunities like this to study LIVING history and understand the way America is as it is today. " Homer" and "Milton" are all well and good, but to be able to talk to a Julian Bond or a John Lewis and have them recount the dark days of Jim Crow and what it took to engage in the dangerous practice of civil disobedience at that time, why the lessons to be learned from this experience is PRICELESS.