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.
The funny thing is, neither is black. White is the sum of all colors, black the absence of any color; strictly in physics terms...
I agree.... It has become a fact that black folk cannot abide whitey at all.!! they beat the hell out of him where ever they find him.... The only question that remains is...who is it that goes into the oven... With Mexico's and the Muslim's help (the invaders) it just might be whitey......
Racists.
I am Latino and white, was blond as a child, and they are many like me.
I would be barred entry in this event that will destroy and poison Hispanic communities and the US in general.
So much for INCLUSION!
Columbia needs to get its ass sued pronto.
Soon they’ll take white crayons out of all crayon boxes.
I like your idea. Hey! We could have an “all white” thingy like this and if blacks want to come they can spray themselves white.
Good idea!
Most schools, even or especially those big suburban schools, have plenty of the subset the kids call 'whiggers.'I just call them "Macklemores."
Columbia University — HQ of followers of The Frankfurt School (of social Marxism) from the 1940’s.
They infiltrated Columbia U first, then spread to other teaching colleges, Democrat party, public schools, unions, media and churches. They brought us ‘sensitivity training’ and ‘consensus building’.
Their plan was the slow and steady indoctrination of our children, to the eventual point they would willingly, happily pull the Socialist voting lever. So, how’d they do?
DOJ needs to investigate every one of the schools that pull this stunt... of course, that will have to wait till the next administration.
What racist idiots.
Yes, that would be correct.
I was gonna mention my 64 crayon box had a white crayon.....
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