Well, I guess I'm not going to be PC here as the vote is already 5-0 against Richardson.  If only it were so easy to ridicule Richardson's words and have them all go away. 

 If we could just forget that of the 120 some buildings on the UO campus, not one, not  a single one, is named for an African-American;  That Deady was Oregon's strongest slavery supporter;  That none of the statues on campus (except the Indian Maid) are of any minorities; or that Dr. Sheldon's classic history of the UO doesn't mention a single minority person; or that a black student on campus could go a year without being taught by a single member of his or her  race; or that just two streets in the Eugene area are named for black  people.  

Maybe few of us have had the experience of living in a community where 98% of the people are different  than we, and find it awkward to imagine how they might feel.    Maybe this issue isn't so simple,  perhaps it's not just black and white.