Posted on 10/05/2016 2:19:09 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
Students of color at Columbia University can apply to attend an upcoming racially segregated retreat hosted by the school that promises to embolden and empower participants, according to organizers.
The “Students of Color Leadership Retreat 2016” is open to students within the Columbia University undergraduate community, including its all-women’s Barnard College.
Slated for the weekend of Nov. 12 at Greenkill Retreat Center at the New York YMCA Camp, the event is billed as “an intensive weekend of personal development, empowerment and community building for student leaders at Barnard and Columbia who identify as African/African-American/Black, Latino/Hispanic, Asian/Asian-American, Pacific Islander, Arab and Middle-Eastern, Native & Indigenous, and Multiethnic/Multiracial,” according to the university’s website as well as the retreat’s online application form.
“SOCLR is designed for students who identify themselves as a person of color as a primary identity,” Columbia’s website adds.
The application asks students to state their gender identity/expression, their gender pronoun, their racial identity, and also answer a few questions on what they plan to gain from attending the retreat, paid for by the private, Ivy League institution. Lodging, food and transportation are provided, the application notes.
Event organizers declined to comment to The College Fix, instead redirecting email inquiries to other campus officials.
Asked for additional information, such as whether white students may attend, the cost of the retreat, and about how many students will attend, Melinda Aquino, associate dean of multicultural affairs in Columbia College and Columbia Engineering Undergraduate Student Life, gave a statement on the benefits of the event in an email to The College Fix.
“The Students of Color Leadership Retreat is a long-standing annual program for undergraduates at Columbia and Barnard,” Aquino stated. “The program, which is geared towards any student who self-identifies as a student of color, provides structured activities and guided exercises that enable participants to build community and reflect on their abilities to effect positive change within their own lives, within student organizations, within the Columbia University community, and within society at large.”
Aquino pointed out the Office of Multicultural Affairs also hosts other leadership and community-building programs and retreats that meet the needs of “all students interested in diversity and identity,” including an LGBTQ leadership retreat and an “Intergroup Community Building Initiative” retreat, aimed at creating a more “cohesive” Columbia that affirms “all identities and creates a space for healthy discourse about divisive issues.”
The multicultural office also offers a racially themed mentoring program called the Columbia Mentoring Initiative, which offers programming to the following groups:
Arab & Middle Eastern Family Tree Asian Family Tree Black Family Tree Indigenous Family Tree Latinx Family Tree LGBTQ Family Tree Mosaic Family Tree (International & Multiracial)
Columbia also offers a Global Ambassadors Program, which connects American students and international students through programming and conversations, according to Aquino.
Hey, as long as nobody’s made to feel “uncomfortable” right?
Liberals are surly going to hate living in the world they’re creating for themselves.
We need to stop using that language.
Columbia is OCS for the enemy cause.
I no longer use the word "liberal: ... it doesn't say nor mean anything.
ENEMY, however IS the definition of what most people don't want to say, so they say "liberal"
Columbia is OCS (Officer Candidate School) for the army of the enemy, soon to be unleashed all over our nation as they graduate with minds full of hate and destruction.
Ah, so white is not a color.
OK, got it. Learn something new every day.
One must hope a few conservative white males conveniently self identify as Black and attend this hatefest.
Just think of what they'll say when the whites do it!
Such a ridiculously convoluted way of say NO WHITES ALLOWED. The Jim Crow laws and institutional bias of the past has been replaced with Federal and academic hypocrisy of epic proportions. Perhaps one day downtrodden whites will come to talk of these times as "the Barack Obama laws."
Speaking of hatefests, I have known several white crips. They said, even though they were white, that inside they were black. I definitely thought they were self hating POSs.
So I guess Brown v. Board of Education was wrong and Plessy v. Ferguson was right all along. Separate is equal... Welcome to the Left’s dream of balkanized and mutually antagonistic ethnicities.
If you exclude the whites, it is a racist work in progress.
They want segregation? Where can I sign up?
I think that we are being prepared for the slaughter personally.
Monkeys only entry.
There’s that white privelege again.
I'm sure our enemies' institutions of higher learning are not neutering the minds of their students and teaching them that they are inherently "bad" and that they should deeply regret their parents' economic ability to send them to college. WE should only regret that the college they're being sent to, thanks to their parents sacrifice and virtue, is teaching them this garbage.
They might be able to exterminate whites in a few major cities. After that they’d be dead. Deader than dead.
Someone needs to sue them.
“They might be able to exterminate whites in a few major cities. After that they’d be dead. Deader than dead.”
Without the nasty white people who’s going to keep the lights on?
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