In this country, education holds rule to every aspect of living. It is the gateway to a better financial lifestyle. One must be college educated to obtain a decent job.

Education is the ladder of life. The lack of diversity in schools is astonishing. Every school across America is packed with young white boys and girls. One must wonder who created this rule of injustice.

It all goes back to the politics of slavery and oppression. The days when blacks were not allowed to speak or stand because of some white people’s fear and insecurity, better called “racism.”

But these are different times. It is illegal to discriminate against anyone, unlike in those so called “good old days,” when insecure racist people did their business of discrimination in public.

In those days minorities knew who was racist or not unlike today’s era where everything is done behind an office desk. How far has the revolution of justice come or are people just being bamboozled?

According to Jonathon Kozol’s book, “Shame of the Nation,” the education in the urban public schools would make a third world country shine like stars.

The rat infested hamburgers, debilitating buildings, classrooms with no heat and overly packed with countless children are among the endless problems he addressed in the book.

The desire to keep minorities ignorant is very strong among the hearts of conservatives. How does one fight against leaders who traded their sheets for formal wear?

It is not uncommon for old political thinkers to find ways to keep minorities limited to just living without the sense of evolving financially. Only 30 percent of UMass students are a minority – Asian, Latino and Black.

It is a very sad notion that a school as big as UMass would have such a small percentage. Nevertheless, UMass is not an exception to politics. Students should not expect leaders of UMass to change this lack of diversity because perhaps this is how they planned it. It does not require an intelligent soul to notice the epidemic at UMass.

A great man by the name of Tupac Amaru Shakur once said, “the power is in the people and politics we address.” These words are very powerful in the sense that leaders are nothing without followers.

One can not follow a blind man without his loyal stick just like one can not follow a racist leader without a massive cloud of committing injustice to the community.

The lack of diversity at UMass is a colossal injustice to the minority communities, and it is an injustice to the white students who are being restricted from learning about other cultures for the sake of tolerance.

If education equals decent living, then there should be a balance of equality. Many people are interested in saving people in third world countries; all the while politicians have created third world communities within this country.

This is due to the lack of minorities admitted to colleges such as UMass. Only a fool continually repeats the mistakes of its father. So why do citizens elect these fools of deception?

It is easy for people, especially the elderly, to be conservatives rather than changing any injustice. They often enforce the discrimination. In other words they choose to not know better.

The modern heroes are the rap artist, and for decades their cries were and are dismissed as being gangsters. Rap artists are the product of political mistreatment. They are mostly from a place they call “the hood” in which they sing about in endless songs.

The hoods are communities the black minorities live. It is a place filled with crime and endless poverty. Places like the hood would eventually lose existence if schools like UMass recruited students from those areas.

A sensible man by the name of Thomas Paine once wrote, “Time makes more converts than reason.” As time goes by people have stopped questioning things that just don’t look right.

One can’t expect president of UMass, Dr. Jack Wilson to understand the effect the lack of diversity has on the student body. President Wilson is not a student, therefore he is not living with this epidemic of injustice. UMass is nothing without students. Therefore the voice of the youth is more powerful than the administration.

The student unity of UMass is massively apparent especially in the trial and tribulation of Jason Vassal an African American student who was hatefully targeted by non