Since I didn't apparently give enough foundation to my prior post.
While in college at Virginia Tech, a group of friends used to go to a nearby state park twice a year, the black students, who had no problem hanging out with us at the campus or at bars in town would not go on the group camping trips, their reasons were given as we just got somewhere air conditioning and good beds, he$$ no were not gonna go sleep on the ground. They were there on scholarships and from lower income families, and admitted that they couldnt understand why someone would go lay on the ground with the bugs and stuff when they could party in the dorm.
When station in St Louis in the Coast Guard, my little 14 person crew on a bouy tender was looking at putting together a unit party, I suggested camping, and the two black crewmembers said basically the same things.
In both cases the comments were said as if they were half joking, but that both incidents hundreds of miles and several years apart got similar responses is why I stated that.
In my prior post I was trying to state that without the dissertation that one member here apparently wanted.
