{UAH} Unstereotyped: Meet the white valedictorian of a historically black college April 28

At first glance, Joshua Packwood is the embodiment of white privilege: He's college educated, married, a father of two and he runs a successful hedge fund in Manhattan.

By then, Packwood was about to start his freshman year at a predominantly black high school, which he described as "very, very poor." (Packwood says he was at "the lower tier of that economic breakdown.") The majority of the students -- including Packwood -- received free breakfast and lunch.

Many of his classmates were also wealthier, better dressed and more articulate than he was, Packwood said. It made him realize how class could sometimes be more of a unifying factor than race and how poor blacks and poor whites might have more in common with each other than, say, poor whites and rich whites.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/28/news/economy/unstereotyped-white-historically-black-college/


Sincerely,

Brian M. Kwesiga

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