Posted on 06/05/2019 4:52:53 AM PDT by simpson96
During commencement season, young people across the country enjoy the ceremony marking the completion of their college career, attaining degrees reflecting their interest in ideas, innovation, art, sciences and the myriad of courses offered by American academies.
But the camaraderie inherent and necessary as part of the college experience is under attack by a familiar foe: identity politics. This divisive tool is now creating divisions in the very experience that is meant to expand one’s world and our belonging in it.
College is meant, in part, to be the shift into adulthood; the experience of moving out of not just your parents’ house, but out of your comfort zone as well, and into an arena where you will encounter people different from you, unlike your hometown, challenging what you think you know about your life by tossing you into a different one. In addition to the education by the books, the intention is to expand your understanding of the world beyond yourself. Literally.
There is now a warning sign that the leftist obsession with identity politics and the division that it brings have overwhelmed the academy. The leftist strategy of promoting self-regard, otherness, suspicion and division is taking root in the very institutions that are meant to have the student look outside the known, enter the unknown and make it better with their presence.
The National Association of Scholars has released a study indicating that “at least 75 American colleges have black-only graduation ceremonies and 43 percent of surveyed colleges offer segregated residential halls. The organization refers to this as ‘neo-segregation,’” Breitbart reported.
Harvard’s separate commencement for African Americans first made national news in 2017. The New York Times had a headline that said, “Colleges Celebrate Diversity with Separate Commencements.” Readers should presume The Times simply doesn’t recognize the irony
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
“If you are the commencement speaker at one of these separatist events, do you have to be the same color as the graduates?”
You would have to have a “speaker of color” at the black ceremony. The whites aren’t as picky these days. I’m sure in either case you have to be someone who will reinforce what they already believe. Can’t be stimulating any independent thought, you know...
Down home back in the day they had separate high school proms for blacks and whites. It was requested by ALL the students, as neither group cared for the other’s music.
Somewhere, Simon Legree and George Wallace are laughing together as “Liberals” try to lead Black Americans into a new form of slavery, based on ignorance....
So, has GEORGE WALLACE been vindicated for what he said about segregation?
” “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”
Now the calls for forced segregation are coming from the “minority” positions.
Degrees in “Gender Studies”, “African American Studies” and “Hispanic Studies” should be awarded at separate commencements, so that no one will confuse them with real degrees.
Not yet.. but we’ll know it when we are.
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