Johns Hopkins University students who organized two rallies in response to a racially themed Halloween party suffered a bitter backlash, confirming their fear that speaking out would only make their alienation worse.

I thought about this, because it WILL recur.

I suggest some long-term research. There should be a whole bag of articles ready for publication in August, about the psychological significance of masking, how masks let people give vent to buried beliefs and feelings. How dressing up as Mace Windu is different than dressing up as Stepin Fetchit for white folks...nevermind shit like this:

One widely forwarded Texas A&M video shows a white student painted with shoe polish getting whipped and sexually assaulted.

Focus on the Halloween dress-up, how the incidences are increasing. To hell with any suggestion that they are only becoming more visible...frankly, since everyone knows he truth, you're not looking for understanding. Your goal is the manipulation of perception.

Campus Racism Online
Tech gives a new look at a persistent problem
By Elizabeth Weiss Green
Posted Sunday, December 31, 2006

One Saturday night this fall, two college students went to a party. At 9:22 p.m. somebody took a picture. Eventually, everyone got tired and went to bed.

That would have been that–an ordinary Whitman College frat party in ordinary Walla Walla, Wash.–had Natalie Knott, a Whitman senior who wasn't invited to the party, not discovered the 9:22 p.m. photo two weeks later on the social networking website Facebook.com. In the photo, two Sigma Chi frat brothers, both white, are smiling ear to ear. They're also covered in thick black paint, evoking a minstrel show.

"Having a decent knowledge of history, I sort of lost it," says Knott, one of only a small number of students of color at Whitman. She was not the last to be outraged. Over the course of the semester, racially charged photos, videos, and Facebook pages offended students at more than a dozen campuses across the country–from the University of California–Los Angeles, where a video of police shocking an Iranian-American student with a TASER gun sparked a rally against police brutality, to Tufts University outside Boston, where the editor of a student journal just apologized for a satirical poem called "O Come All Ye Black Folk." One widely forwarded Texas A&M video shows a white student painted with shoe polish getting whipped and sexually assaulted. The NAACP found the trend so disturbing that it announced a Campaign to End Campus Racism. Over the past 15 years, colleges have become more racially diverse, but students and observers say campuses remain segregated–and, for minority students, racially tense. Survey data tend to miss that tension. "People know how to say all the right things [in a survey]," explains Rachel Sullivan, a sociologist at Long Island University.