January 18, 2010
Political science professor John Altman provided comments on racial harmony for two Martin Luther King Jr. Day stories on President Obama's impact on race in America:
"America has come a long way; though it has a long way to go and will likely never achieve complete racial harmony," says John Altman, a political scientist at York College of Pennsylvania. "When the only memorable thing that our current president has done to further the discourse on race relations is to bring together a white cop and a black college professor for a beer, it will be a long time before anything changes."
The Christian Science Monitor:
The very notion of a "post-racial" society emerging from the election of a black president is a "racist idea," according to John Altman, an associate professor of political science at York College of Pennsylvania, and one that minimizes the gains made by black leaders over the past five decades.
Associated Press science writer Seth Borenstein quoted communications professor Lowell Briggs in a story on the relief efforts in Haiti, which went out on the national wire:
The "backbone of any disaster success" is coordination, added Lowell Briggs of York College, who has worked with international emergency services.
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