By that same logic, racially separate water fountains would likewise reflect the university's commitment to "DIE."
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Posted on 06/19/2023 9:57:05 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A Colorado-based legal group filed a civil rights complaint against the University of California Berkeley (Berkeley) over holding a segregated graduation ceremony in May.
The Mountain States Legal Foundation (MSLF) filed an administrative complaint with the Department of Education Monday, alleging the university violated the Civil Rights Act.
In May, Berkeley continued its decades-long tradition of holding a separate “Black Graduation” ceremony for African Americans. In a statement to a local Fox affiliate, the university defended the ceremony as part of the institution’s commitment to “diversity, equity, and inclusion and belonging among all members of our community.”
“As such, Berkeley’s Black Graduation serves as a celebration of our Black students’ achievements, their resilience and the rich cultural heritage they bring to our community,” the school said.
“It is clearly exclusionary,” Will Trachman, the general counsel for MSLF who previously served in the Trump Education Department, told The Federalist. “Both the title of the event and all the materials and speakers at the event are talking exclusively to black students.”
The conservative college-centered news website Campus Reform found segregated graduations are becoming normalized. In 2019, a report from the National Association of Scholars (NAS) found 125 colleges “segregate graduation ceremonies” in the name of racial justice.
The Trump administration issued a webinar guidance reminding educators segregation in school settings has been ruled unconstitutional.
“Since the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, schools have been barred from segregating students according to race in classes, seminars, lectures, trainings, athletics, clubs, orientations, award ceremonies, graduations, or other meetings,” the guidance read. “This includes, of course, segregation that occurs in a virtual or online format as well.”
President Joe Biden rescinded the directive as one of his first moves in office with executive order 13895, “On Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.”
Trachman told The Federalist he was optimistic the complaint filed against Berkeley “is strong enough that even the Biden administration, which is generally hostile to civil rights and racial equality, is not going to have a choice but to pay attention to it.”
If I was graduating today, I’d WANT segregated ceremonies.
I wonder if they consider it to be their very own safe space, where they are not exposed to micro aggressions from people who wouldn’t micro agrees them anyway? 😆
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Yeah....but they shouldn’t move to Rwanda or south Chicago. Wakanda is more suitable, since it doesn’t exist.
Segregation today segregation tomorrow segregation forever.
George Wallace is smiling in his grave.
By that same logic, racially separate water fountains would likewise reflect the university's commitment to "DIE."
Regards,
At Stanford University, they have expanded beyond segregated graduation. Every hour of every day they practice segregation.
At Stanford University, while touting and celebrating ‘diversity’ has developed segregated housing: Ujamaa House is for African-American; Okada House is for Asians; Casa Zapata is for Chicanx and Latinx (99% of Spanish speakers do not like the new Latinx phraseology, and they do not speak Latin either).
The Stanford University website explains: “”Our ethnic theme communities have a rich and long history of engaging students at the highest levels of intellectual discovery and advancing diversity””
‘Advancing diversity’ by segregation. Sounds right out of 1984.
I thought George Wallace turned against segregation later in life.
“As such, Berkeley’s Black Graduation serves as a celebration of our Black students’ achievements, their resilience and the rich cultural heritage they bring to our community,” the school said.
I’m a little torn on this one... so this legal group is legal wrangling to get other ethnicities shot up alongside blacks at the follow-on graduation festivities?
Nothing shows “inclusion” as boldly as segregation.
EC
This “dem po black folks” and “doze evil white supremacy devils” booschidt is getting awfully old. Whitey is now getting ready to make every one of those African freeloaders (Everyone with dark skin for that matter) into millionaires. This schitz is about to get ugly.
Berkeley Graduation
Isn’t that an oxymoron by the looks of what comes out of Berkeley they don’t get much studying done the spend most of their time protesting something.
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