Why The 'Race Card' Is Played

After racist emails, Wake Forest University keeps armed guards outside some classrooms The emails arrived after a tumultuous spring semester. In February, after a photo of a person in blackface and another wearing a Ku Klux Klan robe was found on the medical-school yearbook page of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) generated national headlines, the university’s president, Nathan Hatch, addressed the campus about racist images and language in old copies of the Wake Forest school yearbook . Those included references to lynching, racial slurs, Confederate symbols and photos of students in blackface. Hatch wrote that the university continues “to explore and improve how to reconcile our complex history with the progress we’ve made and the sense of belonging we want everyone in our community to feel.” Those efforts included researching the school’s historical ties to slavery. Later that month, the university’s dean of admissions, Martha Allman, wrote a message to the campus apologi