College group cancels diversity 'happy hour' after excluding white staffers

KING 5 News ^ | March 11, 2014 | DREW MIKKELSEN

[moonshinner_09]

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- An attempt to fight racism at a community college may have backfired.

A group of employees at South Puget Sound Community College sent out an invitation to all 300 staffers.

The "Staff, Faculty and Administrators of Color" encouraged employees to reply to the invitation to find out the confidential date and time of what was being called a "happy hour" to "build support and community" for people of color.

The invite made it clear white people were not invited.

The email read: "If you want to create space for white folks to meet and work on racism, white supremacy, and white privilege to better our campus community and yourselves, please feel free to do just that."

"It was obviously a mistake," said SPSCC's Dean of College Relations, Kellie Purce Braseth. Braseth said the group that put out the email last week apologized the next day and canceled the event.

[Cyber Liberty]

It wasn’t a mistake. It reflected the truth about their attitude toward “diversity.”

Oh, it was indeed a mistake. They messed up and let us in on what's in their minds. Tipping their hands like that is a *big* mistake. I find their candor refreshing.

[verga]

Its not racism when blacks do it.

"Tell that to a Korean in South L.A." -Thurgood Marshall "Goodie" Cumberbatch

[jsanders2001]

Picture of Karama:

http://glaadblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Karama-Blackhorn.jpg

Her name should have been Karma because she’s about to reap a lot of it. Obviously another one of the liberal LGBT gender confused freaks.

[I want the USA back]

No mistake. They didn’t expect to get caught. The anger and hatred toward their worst enemy is just too much. These people are sick in the head.

I would have gone anyway. When asked, I would have said that my ancestry includes people of color.

[until the government gives us a clear definition of “White” “Black” “person of color” and all the other racist separatist tags, it’s whatever you want it to be.]

[I want the USA back]

How many unemployable people have jobs as “diversity” managers?

[Darren McCarty]

90% of the time you are right. The other 10% is Tim Wise.

[Steve_Seattle]

“...members of color would have a more honest discussion about race without white employees.”

And I suppose white people could have a more honest discussion of race without "people of color" being present. Would the people of color welcome such a white-only event? Would it even be allowed?

[TBP]

Typical liberal racists.

[Bernard Marx]

My question is why public tax dollars are being spent on a community college Diversity and Equity Center, and used to pay the salary of a professional academic racist like Karama Blackhorn. Our “educational” system is being used to turn America into a Balkanized mess instead of the unified country it used to be.

[Cyber Liberty]

FTA: She said it could have been worded differently, but she maintains the staff members of color would have a more honest discussion about race without white employees.

She made it clear the mistake was not in dis-inviting Whitey, but in using the language she did. Apparently when the subject of digging holes came up in class (rule 1, stop digging!), she was out to recess. I am sure she'll reschedule, but next time she will have the discretion of not allowing any invites to fall into the hands of any Whiteys.

[Vaduz]

College group ‘happy hour’ or as they call it in Chicago Saturday night.

[Billthedrill]

If you want to create space for white folks to meet and work on racism, white supremacy, and white privilege to better our campus community and yourselves, please feel free to do just that.

Try to imagine the media firestorm if anyone ever did.

[Two Kids' Dad]

I think she would consider herself "Native American" and not white. Whether she is or not is irrelevant. It's how she feeeeeels.

[andyk]

"It was obviously a mistake,"

A mistake is when you're not paying attention to what you're doing and you bump into someone. Sending out an email promoting racial segregation is not a mistake.

[Kenton]

She said it could have been worded differently, but she maintains the staff members of color would have a more honest discussion about race without white employees.

Yeah, that's kind of the way the Klan feels about race mixing too. It's called segregation. Congratulations, you are morons.

[dljordan]

“Whenever your unit or company schedules a “diversity” seminar,
a) $20 that it’s a woman.
b) $50 that it’s a woman of “color”.”

We’ve got that beat at our company. We get a black, female, lesbian, lawyer.

[Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi]

You know, I have a recurring fantasy — well, maybe not a fantasy.

If Putin really wanted to play games with the current administration, he should issue the following statement: all Americans who are still believers in traditional morality and who still uphold Christian beliefs, who are sick and tired of being intimidated by blacks and other lowlifes, come to Russia. We respect your intelligence and you will be in a safe environment where you will not have to apologize for being of European descent.

Wouldn’t that make the black grievance industry’s heads explode?

[Timber Rattler]

So Karama here also disinvited herself (itself)?

Shaking my head...

[Nea Wood]

I often think about that myself. I wonder if there would be a stampede to Russia under that scenario. And all the leeches who depend on white tax dollars...what would they do then? Would they have to admit that they need whites? Would they beg the whites to stay? It would be interesting; that’s for sure.

[FreedomGuru]

White People.