Study rips college minority programs

Washington Times ^ | 12/16/02 | Ellen Sorokin

[kattracks]

Programs set up to help minority students are a form of racism and have led to segregation at many universities nationwide, concludes a new survey conducted by the New York Civil Rights Coalition.

Ethnicity-themed dorms, multicultural offices and centers, minority-specific orientation programs, and courses and departments with a politically correct slant are "apartheid policies" that do nothing more than encourage separatist thinking among minority students, the survey of 50 public and private colleges and universities shows.

[per loin]

Will the pubbies ever develop sufficient backbone to attack the congressional black caucus as a racist institution?

[Texasforever]

Will the pubbies ever develop sufficient backbone to attack the congressional black caucus as a racist institution?

They are too busy lynching Lott for the Black Caucus to worry about this.

[L.N. Smithee]

"Colleges and universities have a mania with group identity," said Thor Halvorssen, executive director of the Philadelphia-based Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. "Colleges are underlining the differences between students instead of building bridges. What they are doing is promoting Balkanization, not a humane environment."

Fantastic! Somebody else gets it!

[friendly]

Stanford has several ethnic-theme dorms: Muwekma-Tah-Ruk (American Indian); Okada (Asian Americans); Ujamaa (blacks); and Casa Zapata (Hispanics).

LOL. I nearly choked on my coffee as I read this. These are student housing complexes straight from The Onion... satire at its best.

Who says liberal democrats have no sense of humor?

[gubamyster]

Colleges provide special-interest housing for minorities. Stanford has several ethnic-theme dorms: Muwekma-Tah-Ruk (American Indian); Okada (Asian Americans); Ujamaa (blacks); and Casa Zapata (Hispanics).

And the Dems have the gall to call Lott a segregationist.

Did they really need a study to conclude that all this diversity BS causes Balkanization?

[Timesink]

LOL. I nearly choked on my coffee as I read this. These are student housing complexes straight from The Onion... satire at its best.

I'm trying to guess what the white dorm should be called. What would be a great name that screams "whiteness"? "Augusta National"? The Duke Building?

[waxhaw]

It's the oldest rule in warfare - divide and conquer.

[Argh]

"The Fighting Whities"? Nahh, already been used.

[metesky]

I'm trying to guess what the white dorm should be called.

Norway?

[friendly]

These are student housing complexes straight from The Onion... satire at its best. I'm trying to guess what the white dorm should be called. What would be a great name that screams "whiteness"? "Augusta National"? The Duke Building?

THe White House? Caucasoid Commons? WASP Hive? Honky Heaven?

[WileyC]

"These practices are insidious because they betray the real purposes of higher education," said Mr. Meyers, who is also vice president of the American Civil Liberties Union.

This is what jumped out at me. The abuses were long-recognized by any rational, observant person. That someone in the ACLU recognizes them (and is willing to say so) is stunning beyond belief. Two gets you one that they can his a** as quickly as they can get the ink dry on the pink slip.

[pollwatcher]

What next, the water fountains?

[valkyrieanne]

Education from kindergarten on up needs to be entirely *race-blind* in every aspect.

[Phaedrus]

Intellectuals have always been able to buy into, and support, the wackiest ideas. Someone needs to acquaint them with the real world and counteract their adolescent influence on our kids.

[FeliciaCat]

I cant believe these knuckleheads needed to do a formal study to conclude that minority programs are a bad thing. I wonder how these yoyo's are able to even dress themselves in the morning.

[FormerLurker]

Martin Luthur King as far as I can tell was not advocating special treatment for blacks, only equal treatment. We have allowed radical fanatics to bully and coerce our society into thinking that we owe certain classes of people special treatment and favoritism. That is totally contrary to what true civil rights proponants have advocated..

[Republic of Texas]

Ironic, isn't it.

[Republic of Texas]

Absolutely. Minorities should have their own water fountains, seats in Diners and on Buses. Maybe their very own entrances into buildings and places of business. So they can build self esteem.

[LibertarianInExile]

I loved the White House. But more subtle would be better...how about Plessy V. Ferguson Hall on the Faubus-Barnett-Maddox Lawn?

Maybe we could even just make that the hall name, take advantage of the idiocy of the faux-African-origin names they make up.

Call it "Ekwal Anseprut Hall."

Or we could just shame these filthy racist pigs, expose their hypocrisy as they deserve. The John Brown Residence Hall at the Abraham Lincoln Quadrangle.