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.”
I support the right of all people to choose their associations, including (but not limited to) the black students at Cal State Los Angeles.
Self-segregation by Blacks.
Thurgood Marshall and Martin Luther King are now spinning at about 10,000 RPM in their graves. Most of what they fought for in their lives was about ELIMINATING segregation, about normalizing Blacks in this society...and look at what these idiots are doing!
BTW, the above should not be construed as support for everything that either of these guys, especially Marshall, did during their lives - but they DID, thankfully, fight segregation.
Sure.
Good luck.
I hear this kind of stuff all the time - a past liberal icon would be upset at the direction that modern policies have taken us.
I think Marshall, King, JFK would just go along and be among the most annoying liberal-leftist advocates if they were around today.
Color my cynical.
I hear the new housing is Separate but Equal to other housing on campus.
Quite possibly. But since they’re dead and gone, and all that we have is the actual record of what they said and did, we can use that record to show the utter hypocrisy of the Left.
Went through the same thing in 1970 at the University of Michigan. Blacks wanted segregated dorms. White students wanted integrated dorms. Lot’s of meetings, but didn’t happen at that time. I don’t know if it ever occurred after I left.
Probably correct. Look at John Lewis.
Let them have their own dormitories; they will be a raging success.
Some whites need to sue for equal access to segregated housing.
Heck, go the full route, Separate classrooms, separate classes, just outlaw all other races.
Two words
1. Redlining - in this case, redlining non-blacks out, and
2. Ghetto - an geographically definable enclave made up predominantly of one racial or ethnic group with culture, mores, and norms distinctly different from the larger society.
That is what this policy ultimately leads to.
I can really empathize with that. I mean, often I'll be sitting in the train, surrounded by other people who look like me, and who are going through the same things I'm going through, and I feel so safe.
And then some minority person will board the train and totally ruin my good mood.
/sarcasm
Could there be a more-blatant expression of racism?
Regards,
Meanwhile, Martin Luther King says, “WTH?”
Liberals used to be against segregation, now liberals are for it.
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The left is for anything that divides Americans.
+1
The irony is that historically black colleges had to start admitting whites just to keep their doors in after segregation ended.
And while public colleges start segregating, the blacks are still ignoring historically black colleges.
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