Who, in their right mind, would tell a group of Black students in a small Louisiana town to just go and sit under a tree that had been the exclusive territory of "white" students, without anticipating, and preparing for some "culture shock"?

When the "responsible" leaders in a community don't deal with these issues when they come up, it falls to the irresponsible leaders, who are the noose-hangers and the headkickers--and when Fox News and Al Sharpton show up, you've lost big time--