Sources report that Colby Martinson, a white student in ENGL710Z: Black Literature 1949-1963, is really going for it. “Colby normally sits in the back of the class and never participates, so when he raised his hand during a discussion of James Baldwin’s Go Tell It On The Mountain, it was quite the surprise. I was like, oh boy, let’s see what this guy has to say,” reported classmate Marla Givens regarding Martinson’s willingness to dive right into discussing complex issues of race with no hesitation whatsoever. “I couldn’t believe he was finally gonna talk just as we were getting into some pretty intense stuff. As soon as he started his point with ‘I could be really off-base here,’ I knew this kid was really going all in today.” At press time, a straight boy making a comment in a queer lit class was biting off more than he could chew.

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