{"id":143,"date":"2004-03-28T13:24:49","date_gmt":"2004-03-28T13:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=143"},"modified":"2004-03-28T13:24:49","modified_gmt":"2004-03-28T13:24:49","slug":"uw_minority_students_alone_in_a_sea_of_white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"UW Minority Students &#8211; Alone in a Sea of White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics.jsonline.com\/graphics\/news\/img\/mar04\/madison1032704-125.jpg\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/state\/mar04\/217774.asp\">Nahal Toosi writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Madison &#8211; The day he moved into his residence hall as a freshman, Christopher Loving heard the whispers of his hall-mates.<br \/>\n&#8220;There&#8217;s a black guy on the floor. Somebody go talk to him.&#8221;<br \/>\nFinally, three fellow University of Wisconsin-Madison students appeared.<br \/>\nAfter noting he was from Chicago, one asked Loving if he was from a rough neighborhood.<br \/>\nNo, Loving said.<br \/>\n&#8220;My dad told me that all the black people in Chicago live in the projects. . . . Are you sure you didn&#8217;t grow up in the Robert Taylor Homes?&#8221;<br \/>\nNope.<br \/>\n&#8220;Well, does your dad play for the Chicago Bears or something?&#8221;<br \/>\nNo, Loving said. He wasn&#8217;t rich.<br \/>\n&#8220;Well, how do you go to school here then? I thought you had to be either really rich or really poor to go here if you&#8217;re black.&#8221;<br \/>\nLoving, now a junior and president of the campus Black Student Union, recalls the encounter with humor and sadness.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nahal Toosi writes: Madison &#8211; The day he moved into his residence hall as a freshman, Christopher Loving heard the whispers of his hall-mates. &#8220;There&#8217;s a black guy on the floor. Somebody go talk to him.&#8221; Finally, three fellow University of Wisconsin-Madison students appeared. After noting he was from Chicago, one asked Loving if he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}