Ethnic Minorities Deserve Safe Spaces Without White People

The Huffington Post's Canada The Blog ^ | May 18, 2015 | Aeman Ansari, fourth year jouralism student

[2ndDivisionVet]

Last week The Ryersonian reported on an incident that involved two first-year journalism students who were turned away from an event organized by Racialized Students' Collective because they are white. Since then there has been a lot of commentary on the piece and a lot of debate -- a lot of the criticism is valid.

There are two sides to the story: 1) the media has a right to attend public events and report on matters that are in the public interest. The student media needs to cover initiatives that are happening on campus so that we draw attention to them and in turn create awareness (The Ryersonian reported that one student said he was covering the meeting for an assignment). 2) Marginalized groups have a right to claim spaces in the public realm where they can share stories about the discrimination they have faced without judgment and intrusion from anyone else.

I am a person of colour and a journalist and so there are two conflicting voices inside my head. But in this case one voice, that of a person of colour, is louder and my conscience does not allow me to be impartial. I have to take a side.

The organizers of the event, the Racialized Students' Collective, should have done a better job of labelling this event as a safe space on the Ryerson Students' Union online calendar. They should label safe spaces clearly and maybe even host events that educate the public on what they mean. Doing so will help the public and the media have a better understanding of the purpose and value of these spaces.

However, the point to note is not that two white students were asked to leave the event...

[DoodleDawg]

Ethnic Minorities Deserve Safe Spaces Without White People

I believe it is known as "Zimbabwe". I'm sure there are flights there.

[ArcadeQuarters]

So... they should be seated in the back of the bus? Maybe protect them from entering white restaurants? Maybe put them in their own schools so that they aren’t offended by microaggression.

[FreedomStar3028]

Can we even turn liberalism on its head?

Is it even possible without violence of some kind?

Minorities want to segregate the white people now, well let them. Send all minorities to D.C. and let them trash that place. Then America can get back to work, elsewhere while the charade of DC and multiculturalism can work together in perfect harmony.

[Bucky14]

Maybe they can have own water fountains too.

[lurk]

There are many locations across the country where there are no white people. But they’re the un-safest places a black person can be.

[LS]

Baa-ha-ha-ha. Maybe they should reinstate Plessey v. Ferguson.

[j.argese]

Another Freeper posted white on black crime statistics from the FBI. It was nearly nonexistent. In the case of forcible rape, there wasn't a single case in several years. Not one.

Considering all the lowly white trash we have in this country, I thought that was so unbelievable that I requested a link to check it out. It checked out.

So the question has to be safe from which white people? Or safe from what?

I've watched enough Jerry Springer and Maury to know how easily it is to intimidate a black woman to keep her mouth shut.

[plangent]

If these people of colour acted more like white people it would cut down on street crimes and deaths in their own communities.

[Paladin2]

Well, there is always sub-Saharan Africa.

[KeyLargo]

'Dear Leader' Obama has deemed it permissible to be Anti-White.

Boston University prof at center of racist tweet flap was charged with felony ID theft in 2008

Published May 24, 2015FoxNews.com

Boston University Professor Saida Grundy

A newly hired Boston University professor, who apologized over racially charged comments and allegedly ridiculed a white rape victim in Facebook posts, reportedly was charged in 2008 with felony identity theft.

According to Boston.com, incoming BU sociology professor Saida Grundy was convicted of a misdemeanor in 2008 after she created a fake account for another woman on the adult website Fling.com.

Grundy, who was a graduate student at the University of Michigan at the time, said in a statement to Boston.com: “When this incident occurred I was 24, and exercised the poor judgment of a heartbroken 24 year old. I took accountability then as I do now. I hold true to the lessons learned, and my life has since moved on.”

Boston.com obtained the court records in the case, as well as the police report, which stated the fake account was created using photos Grundy got of a woman who was dating a man with whom Grundy had also been involved. The photos of the woman, who lived in Virginia, were taken from the man’s email account.

The Virginia woman became aware of the Fling.com account in her name in June 2008. She called local police, Boston.com reports, who then contacted police in Ann Arbor, Mich.

“This was a jealous thing regarding another man,” Grundy told the police, Boston.com reports, citing the police report.

Grundy was charged with identity theft and using computers to commit a crime, both felonies. She also was charged with malicious use of a telecommunications service, a misdemeanor.

Grundy pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor count in exchange for the dismissal of the felonies. Her probation ended in June 2009.

Boston University says the 2008 conviction will not derail Grundy’s employment.

Sai Grundy wrote: “^^THIS IS THE S**T I AM TALKING ABOUT. WHY DO YOU GET TO PLAY THE VICTIM EVERY TIME PEOPLE OF COLOR AND OUR ALLIES WANT TO POINT OUT RACISM. my CLAWS?? Do you see how you just took an issue that WASNT about you, MADE it about you, and NOW want to play the victim when I take the time to explain to you some s**t that is literally $82,000 below my pay grade? And then you promote your #whitegirltears like that’s some badge you get to wear… YOU BENEFIT FROM RACISM. WE’RE EXPLAINING THAT TO YOU and you’re vilifying my act of intellectual altruism by saying i stuck my “claws” into you?”

Read at: Fox News.

[chatham]

Will they be refusing any and all monies from White people just to remain Pure????

[Feckless]

I agree...

They're called "Affica" and "Meh-hee-ko"

AMF

[WilliamofCarmichael]

The race grievance industry, the Obama-Holder demagogues, and employees of the MSM are screaming racism -- it is very profitable for them both in money and influence.

White people may experience occasional and unacceptable prejudice, but not racism.

Yes indeed and these actual federal crime statistics suggest support for that.. it's not racism that is directed at whites it's ragism.

See the FBI homicide data.. though outnumbered at least six-to-one blacks murder whites by more than two-to-one. See the NIBRS stats.. though outnumbered at least six-to-one blacks' violent crime numbers skyrocket and in some case exceed white violent crime numbers. And those NCVS surveys . . . .

see FR thread for other tables and sources

[Prov1322]

if I was going to school at one of theses schools that are having black only meeting I would be tempted to put up a sign advertising the meeting of black clan

Or, as Dr Walter Williams identifies the NAACP, "The Klan with a tan..."

[wetgundog]

Id so, tehn move to Detroit, Cleveland, Flint, Saginaw, South Chicago.

[WildHighlander57]

I was thinking the same thing as you when I saw the title of the story.

[EvilCapitalist]

Don’t forget Crapistan.

[jaydee770]

HuffPo never fails to impress me with the depth and breadth of their idiocy. We should just spam their comments with the following two words: “George Santayana”.

[Desron13]

How about if I want a “safe place” without black people. Oh yeah, that would be racist.

[Leep]

A rubber room?