What is the importance of Oberlin College in the nonfiction book, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America?

Laymon attended Oberlin after the events that took place at Millsaps. The bathrooms of Oberlin is where much of the rhyming in "Hip-Hop Stole My Southern Black Boy" took place. Oberlin is described as being much more tolerant and diverse than Millsaps. Laymon describes that he was glad that he decided to attend Oberlin, because many of his memories were formed there, such as those in the aforementioned "Hip-Hop Stole My Southern Black Boy."