Commentary: Two students would not have worn blackface had they been properly educated about slavery and racism

For the second time in a matter of weeks, a white student at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo wore blackface. After the first incident, in late April, the student who had worn blackface then, Kyler Watkins, wrote in a letter to the Cal Poly student newspaper that "growing up white and privileged, I was truly unaware of how insensitive I was to the racial implications of blackface."

At first, I was angered and saddened. Then I thought about myself when I was around their age.