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Morehouse to Graduate First WHITE Valedictorian

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What was his motivation?

Morehouse College is scheduled to make history on Saturday when Joshua Packwood becomes the first white student to deliver the valedictory address in the schools 141-year history.

The 22-year-old from Kansas City, Missouri, will graduate with a perfect 4.0 GPA and a degree in economics and is headed for the Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs. Although Packwood considered Stanford, Columbia and USC he was went Morehouse because of his relationship with recruiter, George Gray. Morehouse didn’t even graduate a white student until 1966.

Packwood says no Ivy League school could have provided him with the perspective that he has now. “I cannot tell you what a black man is,” he said. “I really learned to look much deeper. It takes a lot of effort to know people.”

SOURCE: NewsOne

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Comment by Mike "Evorgleb" Belgrove

2008-05-13 11:39:22

“Relationship with his recruiter?” hmm. I’ll refrain from making the “Morehouse is full of gay black men” joke.

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Comment by Marcus "Dos Un" Holmes

2008-05-13 12:04:32

motivation you ask, thick atlanta area butts
we know whites love it from jews to italians

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Comment by Mike "Evorgleb" Belgrove

2008-05-13 12:13:45

If you’ve ever been to Morehouse you’d know that a good 80% of those guys are not looking for ATL women, lol

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Comment by Juan "S. Stylus" Perez

2008-05-13 12:14:33

Hence why I’ve never been. Spellman is right across the way fam.

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Comment by DJ Diva

2008-05-13 12:46:37

I live here in the ATL and yall are soooo on point. Snobby backpackers…

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Comment by Marcus "Dos Un" Holmes

2008-05-13 13:16:37

i got accepted there but at the time didn’t wanna go, so I would have been in the minority huh

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Comment by Juan "S. Stylus" Perez

2008-05-13 13:20:01

Maybe you would have converted Maarcusssss.

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Comment by max

2008-05-13 16:47:56

check out a another take on the issue at http://theprereq.com/?p=280

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Comment by donovan

2008-05-14 18:08:20

Maybe his motivation was a quality education. As a student at Morehouse, I can tell you that is what got me here. It belittles the experience provided by the school and the character of someone that you DONâ€™T EVEN KNOW to suggest otherwise. Is it so far of a stretch to think that a school like Morehouse would be the school of choice for a White man? And as far as the other commentsâ€¦Iâ€™m sure that your not going to Morehouse had more to do with your abilities and the cost than anything else.

P.S. Spelman is spelled with one “l.” Maybe you were somewhere else…

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