POLITICO
Scared to realize just how far away your neighbors really were all along? Been there.
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By ISSAC J. BAILEY
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He called my son the N-word.
Kyle, my 19-year-old, told me this past fall, as though he were reading the ingredients on a cereal box. His college roommate had been getting physical in ways beyond young men horsing around, initiating unwanted wrestling that felt a bit too real given the weapons nearby. That white roommate had knives he liked to display, two pocketknives considered unlawful weapons by the school, and a much larger hunting knife that made their dormmates uncomfortable. This had gone on for weeks during his freshman year at a mostly white Christian college, Erskine, where weekly faith services for students are mandatory. It’s located upstate in South Carolina, where Donald Trump flags fly comfortably alongside those dedicated to Jesus.