One for people of color, and the other for people of no color.
Held at the same time, and with the same basic topics, so they were equal.
Which is important when you are a government-run, taxpayer-funded State university.
There was much RAEG! from the local left because word first leaked about the colorless gathering. But it turned into a grudging "hey, maybe not a bad idea, but" when the separate but equal one became known.
The fact that it would have been perfectly in line with the spirit of Plessy v. Ferguson completely escaped the university and the commentators.
And if you needed a despair-infected chuckle for the day, there you go.
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