What world do you live in?

To the Editor:

This is my reaction to everything that has happened in response to the Charlene Cole issue.

To a few with voices:

So you think you are so right, always trying to take the side that makes you look good, with so much insight and so little rage for anyone but your fellow people of color. There is more to this bullshit than meets the eye, we aren't all victims or at least we don't all choose to see ourselves as victims. So we say what's on our minds, we speak from experience, but what more do we have to share with our fellow students that can convey what we are trying to explain? We are looking for some sort of justice just like the next person, we fight for our voices to be heard, and not you or anyone else has the right to say we are all trying to be victims of the system. Get off your high horse, listen beyond yourself, realize person of color isn't just black. What ever happened to latino, indian, native american, asian, etc.? Homosexuals and jewish people are also a minority at this school, if nothing else because we are made that way by the administration. What about their voices? So what if many people at this school are queer or jewish, our practices are still not given full recognition; and as for people of color, we are still ignored. So you ask why Charlene Cole was a target? For nothing else than we were all sick of only one voice in this large community being heard. So it might have been yours, but not all of your people were being represented. What about the homosexuals? the poor? Those that don't have the time to twiddle their thumbs in front of a computer waiting for inspiration to hit and write something to try and offend and yet make it seem like that was not your intention in the first place. You are so full of shit it impresses me because I'm not sure what world you live in. Oberlin, are you sure that is where you are and not some fucked up reality called "I only see what I want" world? Enough, unlike you I don't have all the time in the world to seem like the hero, the mind of reason. That's all.

-Carolina Peñalva College senior