Fundy U: BJU edition

[Lizzy F.]

Quote:No, not all Southerners are like that, and not all Northerners are shining beacons of tolerance and divinely ordered equality, either. Racism has no geographical boundaries. I sometimes wish BJU had been located in Michigan or something so I could stop hearing the Southern Racist Blame Game.

I agree.

I admit I'm biased. I now not all southerners are racists, but my Virginia-born Dad is extremely racist and my Grandmother used the n-word until she was put into a nursing home. The kindness of the black nurses towards her gave a big change of heart.

So, it's something that I've grown up with.

I'm not trying to negate the good things the university has done or turn this into a BJU bashing thread. I personally have not had any good experiences with it, but I've appreciated the good comments that people have had about it.

[steviusthedevious]

Quote:an Asian girl dating a white guy

i asians. my fiancée/wife is asian. i say screw racism!

[Just Curious]

(01-03-2011 10:36 PM)steviusthedevious Wrote:  i asians. my fiancée/wife is asian. i say screw racism!

Congrats!
I love Asian art and culture. The grace, self-discipline, balance, and dignity that it upholds is beautiful.

[steviusthedevious]

(01-03-2011 10:44 PM)Just Curious Wrote:  Congrats!
I love Asian art and culture. The grace, self-discipline, balance, and dignity that it upholds is beautiful.

gah! so true. there is so much culture, so much depth. i feel culturally inept having grown up in america, where we have like 200yrs of historical relevance.

[Faith]

(01-03-2011 10:36 PM)steviusthedevious Wrote:  i say screw racism!

Hay-men! No one who claims to be a Christian should be racist. I'm with Just Curious on my black brothers. MmmmHmmm!

[steviusthedevious]

(01-04-2011 12:20 AM)Faith Wrote:  No one who claims to be a Christian should be racist. I'm with Just Curious on my black brothers. MmmmHmmm!

there is such joy in diversity, as you mentioned on another thread. i'm getting to the point where i can see that all the time, not just some of the time. i'll blame it on living in the south, even though that doesn't even begin to excuse things

[Historian]

(01-03-2011 09:11 AM)elfdream Wrote:  I remember being shocked when Bob Jones told Larry King that they never used Scripture as a base for those policies...I remember well hearing over and over about "God establishing their bounds of habitation'.

What little respect I had for BJU died when Dr. Jones lied that day. I sat in chapel services and heard Dr. Jones Jr and III give aScripture basis for their no-interracial dating policies on more than one occasion between 1994 and 1998. I didn't agree, but I could respect someone doing something for what they were convinced was a Biblical reason. But then to hear Dr. Jones lie like that on Larry King, so bald-faced and without a qualm, was shocking and horrifying.

More shocking and horrifying are some of my poor deluded friends who were GA's during that time. They sat through a pre-Larry King airing indoctrination where they were told what the university's new position had always been, or something like that. They are still deluded, and think I'm just bitter since Bob's lie made me so angry. It's rather sad when you'd rather think a friend you've known intimately, and even worked with on the mission field, for more than 10 years is lying rather than suspect His Holiness, Bob Jones III of telling an untruth to Larry King.

[Historian]

I went to BJU during the mid 90's. It was the worst 4 years of my life. I still occasionally have nightmares about being back there. There's just....so much. There were some good faculty there (and some real losers who would never be allowed to teach at a real school). It's actually a bit painful to talk about. Maybe someday someone will start a BJU experiences thread and we can get some catharsis.

[FormerFundy]

I'm the only one in my family that did not go to BJU, except for one year where I was forced to attend BJA. My parents are BJU grads, got married at the War Memorial Chapel, my sisters and brothers all graduated from BJA and went on to BJU, grad school, Ph.D, etc. etc. etc. Even at age 15 (when I was "admonished" by my parents that I should stay @ BJA as a dorm student) I refused to stay because I knew the institutional racism was wrong. I threatened my parents that if I were forced to stay there, I would find the first non-white girl I could and date her just so I'd get shipped. LMAO! Now many years later, I still have family that live in the GSP area and have ties to the school, but I try to avoid going on campus. That place gives me the creeps.

[Kevin]

One of my huge problems with BJ besides the race issue was the fact that students were actually ENCOURAGED (yes, that is true) to tattle and turn others in when someone did something against the rules. No biblical confrontation, almost never grace or mercy shown, no chance for repentance or reconciliation. It was all about the university and its policies. Not about trying to emulate Christ, listen to His words, or show the fruit of the Spirit. It was legalism pure and simple. Behavior modification was panned in the counseling classes, yet it was used practically all over campus to keep people in line and develop a "Christ-honoring Atmosphere."

I hear that they are beginning to come out of that stage. I can only hope so.