Posted on 09/08/2016 7:31:25 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
Some are calling it segregation and a step backwards, while others say it’s a boost for the black student population. At Cal State Los Angeles, a new housing program opens up dorms for black students who want to be separated from the rest of the campus.
The housing option is generating criticism on social media. The campus is setting aside 20 spots in their 192 unit dorm complex for African-American students and others who share similar interests or concerns.
A similar housing option is available at UC Davis.
“I think we should support different communities wanting to be together, but there shouldn’t be specific White or Black or Asian dormitories,” says UC Davis student Teresa Chylkova.
Sydney DeLone is the president of the Black Student Union at UC Davis. She spent her freshman year living at Campbell Hall, at the African-American housing complex, where roughly 45-70 students are accommodated per year. DeLone says
DeLone says it’s a positive opportunity for the black student population to have a home base to come home to.
“It was definitely a safe space because you see people that look like you, that are going through the same things you’re going through,” says DeLone.
UC Davis has offered this housing option for two decades now, and university officials say they do not shut anyone out.
“Many of our students who live in this community identify as African or African-Americans, but we also have a number of students who do not, and they want to be there to learn from other students,” says Brenden Petitt, director of the Office of Student Development.
Similar to UC Davis, a Cal State LA spokesperson says they too allow all students to apply for the housing, even if they’re not of African-American descent.
At UC Davis, the program has proved to be successful. Graduation rates are high among black students who live in the African-American theme program.
But still for some, the idea of housing for one specific minority group simply sets us back decades and runs counter to the aims of the civil rights movement.
“What’s next? Are we gonna have Hispanic only, white only?” says Tim Donnelly, a former CA State Assemblyman. “Using tax payer dollars to segregate society, I think is probably offensive to everyone.”
“Sanctuary” from what? Beer pong?
Can white students have the same thing?
Liberals used to be against segregation, now liberals are for it.
The cultural whiplash is enough to make your head spin.
“Similar to UC Davis, a Cal State LA spokesperson says they too allow all students to apply for the housing, even if they’re not of African-American descent.”
An obvious way to dodge being sued for discrimination - probably works, too.
The new and improved George Wallace is back, thanks to such sweeping black brilliance.
What happens when a ‘white boy’ self IDs as POC? Will it be allowed? Will he need his own dorm? Birning questions for liberals everywhere. Seems to me theyve dug a hole from which there is no escape.
But, will Whites be afforded the same Constitutional rights? I doubt it...
Here’s an idea. Why not White universities for Whites and Black universities for Blacks? That would make everybody happy, right? (After all these years of turmoil in our country, and we wind up with this.)
Passively, partially. Only the most obnoxiously racist blacks will be attracted to their special segregated housing, but that's a net gain to the remaining population.
Now the university can build on this initial step by providing black students with separate entrances to the buildings, separate drinking fountains, and their own section on buses
Now the university can build on this initial step by providing black students with separate entrances to the buildings, separate drinking fountains, and their own section on buses
lol
Sorry, no while, Asian or Hispanic males allowed.
Blondes, on the other hand ...
“Some are calling it segregation and a step backwards, while others say it’s a boost for the black student population. At Cal State Los Angeles, a new housing program opens up dorms for black students who want to be separated from the rest of the campus.”
Just go to Grambling and be done with it.
It turns out it was never about segregation at all. It was only about who got to draw the lines.
From colored to people of color.
From segregation to desegration to segregation.
Full circle.
I’m trans-racial as I identify as a black woman now. I can live there, right?
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