Truth of University Housing Segregation Leaks Out

Townhall.com ^ | September 5, 2016 | Hank Adler

[RedWulf]

>It’s simple: if “minority” groups want forced integration, they get it. If they want segregation, they get it.

>As far as white people are concerned, it doesn’t matter what they want. If they even bring the subject up rather than capitulate to the demands of other groups, THEY are the ones accused of racism.

Yep.

[NonValueAdded]

That's no way to "cherish the Diversity™"

[right way right]

Diversity is division.
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[Maceman]

So what another the historic practice of all-white real estate covenants? That was simply allowing whites to live with whites, it was completely voluntary for the whites. Are you OK with that as a practice.

People have the natural right to freedom of association. Whether or not being racist makes someone an a-hole is a different question than whether free individuals have an inherent right to be a-holes if that is their choice.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 needs to be revisited, because it grossly overstepped the boundaries of government power by prohibiting individual action.

Laws against racism and discrimination should be exclusively about limiting government power to discriminate and/and or force segregation with regard to the government policies, law enforcement, government institutions and facilities. The injustices of the Jim Crow era were legally enforced by the government, and the Jim Crow era laws needed to be eliminated.

But free individuals have a right to choose with whom they will or will not associate. If society wants to impose sanctions on racist a-holes, that's fine, as long as it's done socially (i.e. boycotts and shunning) and not legally.

Much of the government over reach we have seen in the past 50 years is due to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 being commandeered by the left to limit the rights of the people relating to pretty much all private activity, instead of being limited to curtailing the powers of the government.

If black people want to live exclusively with black people at private colleges, that is their right if the college chooses to adopt that policy. But that same right also must be recognized for all other races and ethnic groups as well.

[BBell]

Like Kaepernick?

[Pelham]

“Segregation was a terrible wrong when it was demanded by a white dominated majority”

Funny how this stuff is only bad when white Americans do it. Of course it was intended as a political hammer right from the start back in the ‘60s. You can bet that this behavior won’t be “a terrible wrong” when whites are a minority and can be discriminated against with impunity. Come to think of it that’s already the case in places like California.

[Pelham]

“Por La Raza todo, Fuera de La Raza nada”

[Fred Hayek]

Yet in the corporations there are already SJW diversity zampolits in place.

[Pelham]

“The Civil Rights Act of 1964 needs to be revisited, because it grossly overstepped the boundaries of government power by prohibiting individual action. “

which is why Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan opposed the bill. Of course that was at a time when conservatives worried about giving government officials power that amounts to thought policing over individual Americans. Now we have conservative buffoons championing those laws and bragging about how Republicans were responsible for them

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[Gaffer]

You can bet that this behavior won’t be “a terrible wrong” when whites are a minority and can be discriminated against with impunity

In my errant youth I read through the critically condemned "Turner Diaries" and thought them alarmist and overly emotionally inciting.

I remind everyone that all it takes is to single-out, isolate, condemn and punish those who are perceived as guilty to become the next step to kneeling one beside a ditch and blowing their brains out after they've had their fun with you.

[gop4lyf]

When I was in college the school wouldn’t assign roommates of differing races unless both people specifically asked for each other. I know this because I had a student job in the residential halls.

[the_Watchman]

My wife an I are graduates of the Class of 1974 at the University of Oklahoma. During the early 1970’s blacks self-segregated to their own dorms. The largest was ironically named “Sanger House”!

[MileHi]

I think there is a moral distinction between enforcing separation and allowing people to live with whom they choose.

Yes. Freedom of association is under-rated.

[Pelham]

Just removing your ability to make personal choices is bad enough. These bills have created race focused government agencies. They prosecute schools, businesses, home sellers, whomever they want to, all based on if gov’t race counters don’t approve of how people live their lives, whom they hire, whom they promote.

It doesn’t matter how these choices are made, only the aggregate numbers by race count. Everyone caves and walks the PC line to avoid getting prosecuted by these thought police.

And of course it’s not just race anymore, this is where the gov’t prosecuting bakers for not making gay wedding cakes comes from. Welcome to the land of the free, which suffered a serious wound back in 1964

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Where I went to college they had a Black "themed" dorm.

I knew someone there who didn't seem to have a chip on his shoulder or any reason to just hang with his "brothers and sister" and asked him why he was in the dorm.

The answer: there were many more single person rooms in that dorm than any other on campus.

Single person dorm rooms were a rare and precious commodity. If you wanted to be alone to study or alone with your significant other that's what you wanted more than anything else.

So it's not always about race evidently.

[Nea Wood]

That’s a great post.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil . . . - Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)

When government attempts to be society, freedom can easily collapse. When society and government are coextensive, freedom does not exist. Then, “everything which is not mandatory is forbidden.”

[Secret Agent Man]

This is not news to me. Baxk in the early 90s I had a summer with 3 blacl roommates, 2 from historically black colleges in the south, and they were raving about how they wanted separate but equal.

[ReagansShinyHair]

The days when AA guaranteed a cushy job at a big corporation are over.

Yeah, I knew several black students in my classes who were open about the fact that they thought it didn't matter if they weren't at the top of the class, all they had to do was pass and they'd be offered a great job because they were black and had Affirmative Action. Well, none of them got great jobs. The ones that did get job offers lost the jobs within a year and ended up somewhere else. The black students I knew who did well and graduated at the top, they are set up for life in great careers. I know white students who graduated at the top, same course of study, and they are still struggling.