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Debate flares after black college students seek a non-white roommate
WaPo ^ | 08-11-2016 | Nick Anderson and Susan Svrluga

Posted on 08/12/2016 11:58:05 AM PDT by NRx

In most respects, the roommate-wanted notice seemed routine. Three students at the Claremont colleges in Southern California were looking for a fourth this summer to join them in an off-campus house. They added a caveat in parentheses: “POC only,” they said, using a common abbreviation for people of color.

When a classmate challenged that condition, the Pitzer College student who posted the notice on Facebook pushed back. “It’s exclusive [because] I don’t want to live with any white folks,” wrote Karé Ureña, who is black.

The online comments touched off a debate this week over race at Pitzer and neighboring colleges, one that flared into national headlines after the Claremont Independent student magazine wrote about it.

To some, Ureña’s request was completely understandable following a racially charged year when many students of color had demanded more support from the administration. To others, it was simple racism to exclude potential roommates based on skin color.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: blackstudents; california; dorms; highereducation; segregation; thugculture
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To: NRx

They’ve been defending “blacks only” policies for a while. Basically saying it is acceptable because whites were racist first

WARNING. Don’t read this mess while eating...

http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/09/why-need-black-only-spaces/


21 posted on 08/12/2016 12:18:10 PM PDT by varyouga
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To: dfwgator

G. Wallace. Prophetic.

This attitude is on display with BLM everyday, it is evident in the knockout game, it is evident in the entertainment business and one side is viciously pushing the agenda.

Are we doomed to repeat this nightmare, the social disorder and unrest, the hatred every fifty years?

We have a people in the US that have been taught, even indoctrinated to believe that all whites are the oppressors, racists, murderers or enablers. No amount of reparations or apologies is going to change that.

Let us have serious dialog about how we stop the inevitable bloody conflict that WILL come if we do not agree that we cannot coexist and would both be better off geographically separated.


22 posted on 08/12/2016 12:18:40 PM PDT by Molon Labbie
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To: dfwgator; ConservativeWarrior
Good luck doing the same thing if you’re white.

Yeah, you'd need it. Instead you'd have to make up some PC-acceptable fairy tale about the person. e.g, "Loud music (can't say rap) late at night."

23 posted on 08/12/2016 12:21:56 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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I can only assume that feelings such as hers, considering the strident tone and lack of civility, is in all probability not mutually exclusive.

It is something akin to a ‘Beware of Vicious Dog” sign. Not only that but non-POC’s as a show of thankfulness ought to take Ms. Manners out for a happy meal.


24 posted on 08/12/2016 12:22:05 PM PDT by Clutch Martin
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To: NRx

POC have been turned into a government-certified victim group that can do no wrong. It is not subject to the laws that apply to everyone else. It is allowed to discriminate against Whites.


25 posted on 08/12/2016 12:22:45 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: NRx

Embrace the precedent.


26 posted on 08/12/2016 12:27:32 PM PDT by Reverend Wright (UK out of the EU; UN out of the USA !)
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To: Albion Wilde

She doesnt look THAT black to me. Request denied.


27 posted on 08/12/2016 12:28:00 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: NRx
“This is not about white people,” they wrote. “It never has been. The insistence that it should be only reaffirms [our] understanding of how deeply we are submerged in a white-centric world. Recentering this question so it is about the well being of POC is therefore an act of resistance.”

so setting aside there are 6 times as many POC 'worlds' as 'white-centric' worlds...........is the next step for these little snowflakes segregated work environments? POC on one side of the office, white folk on the other? I'm disappointed in the college staff because indulging the Myth of systemic racism to the point of defending violation of the EOand Housing Act, does absolutely nothing to prepare these children for the real world, sitting in a real office in a real company that doesn't give a twit whether about their SJW status or whether they're a snowflake or not.

28 posted on 08/12/2016 12:28:40 PM PDT by blueplum ((March 11, 2016 - the day the First Amendment died?))
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To: Albion Wilde

To bad she doesn’t date white guys, assumption i know, because that one guy who drinks blood would be a good match.


29 posted on 08/12/2016 12:30:35 PM PDT by Leep (Cut the crap!)
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To: NRx

Otherwise, who is “the man?” and is he still “bringing us down?”


30 posted on 08/12/2016 12:33:00 PM PDT by Leep (Cut the crap!)
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To: blueplum
“This is not about white people,” they wrote. “It never has been. The insistence that it should be only reaffirms [our] understanding of how deeply we are submerged in a white-centric world. Recentering this question so it is about the well being of POC is therefore an act of resistance.”

In other words: "I'm black so, by definition, I'm not racist."

31 posted on 08/12/2016 12:33:11 PM PDT by AZLiberty (A is no longer A, but a pull-down menu.)
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To: dfwgator

Find me a high school or collegecafeteria where blacks aren’t all sitting together and I’ll find you Jimmy Hoffa.


32 posted on 08/12/2016 12:35:03 PM PDT by BillyBonebrake
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To: NRx

I’m White, and I sure wouldn’t want a Black for a roommate.
It sounds like a good idea.


33 posted on 08/12/2016 12:38:56 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: NRx
Half a century of civil rights progress down the drain
If progress s what it was...
34 posted on 08/12/2016 12:40:58 PM PDT by HangnJudge (Cthulhu for President, why vote for a lesser Evil)
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To: HangnJudge

You’re confusing motion and progress.


35 posted on 08/12/2016 12:42:14 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: NRx
I can't think of anything nice to say so...

Oh hell, I never let that stop me before. The fact that this ad sparked a controversy, and not outrage is proof that we are screwed! Place a similar ad but replace POC with White and you'd be expelled almost immediately and every jackass administrator at that damned place would be fighting for TV cameras and microphones to condemn the racist who placed the ad. Disgusting!

36 posted on 08/12/2016 12:43:19 PM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Lefties believe in affirmative action because they believe black people are inferior. Since they believe black people are inferior, they naturally believe it is OK for them to be racist.

As a result, black people have learned to think of themselves as inferior and act inferior, and continue to vote for their Democrat Massas.

37 posted on 08/12/2016 12:44:21 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Can you imagine the national uproar if someone posted an ad seeking a roommate and said “must be white” or “whites only need apply”? Crikey!


38 posted on 08/12/2016 12:49:15 PM PDT by Two Kids' Dad (((( Hillary Clinton is a felon. As yet unindicted, but a felon nonetheless ))))
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Might not be the same, but the laws make no exception for it besides roommates seeking roommates of the same sex in shared housing.


39 posted on 08/12/2016 12:53:57 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Leep

40 posted on 08/12/2016 12:56:38 PM PDT by Boogieman
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