Maybe someone who attends Auburn can explain this better than I can, but I think I understand why. The summer before my senior year in HS, I attended a summer program at Auburn for minority students interested in the sciences (I'm not interested in the sciences at all, it was all-expenses paid and a great way to get out of the hellmouth I called a hometown then). Most of the kids were from Georgia, Alabama, or Florida, with a few people from Mississippi. None of us had any intention of going to Auburn (although most people were interested in the sciences). As far as I know, none are at Auburn.
I deducted this was why the blacks in my group did not want to go to Auburn, which is probably true for many others:
Auburn's strengths--the agricultural sciences and engineering--are also the strengths of two other schools which are much more attractive to blacks. One is Georgia Tech, in Atlanta. The other is Florida A&M. They were much more interested in going to those two schools (and Tuskegee and Alabama State) than Auburn, understanding that a HBCU or a school in a city with a thriving black community could be better for them than Auburn. It's okay, and it is no reflection on Auburn's quality as a university.
But as to why this was posted, come on: it's Hoosier, who loves to post things unrelated to Greek Life if it has a racial slant.
