Posted on 08/09/2016 7:11:40 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
A community college in Illinois is trying to defend itself after it decided to offer special classes only available to black people.
“College: Changes, Challenges, Choice” is a one-credit introductory course at Moraine Valley Community College in Palos Hills, and is intended to help new students “assess your purpose for college, assess your study strategies, set college and career goals, examine your values and decision-making skills, and develop an appreciation for diversity.”
But while the class may want students to appreciate diversity, the school doesn’t practice what it preaches. Two sections of the class are specifically set aside exclusively for black students, who make up about 10 percent of Moraine Valley’s 34,000 students. The special classes were first reported on by The Chicago Tribune after it was notified by the parents of several students.
Moraine Valley says it’s simply trying to improve the odds of success for black students, who are typically less likely to graduate from the school.
The school has defended its action by pointing out that it has been creating classes targeted to certain demographic groups for some time. Previous classes have been open exclusively to veterans, older students and Hispanics. Whatever its justifications, though, it’s not clear that Moraine’s policy is even legal. The federal Title VI law prohibits racial discrimination in all programs that receive federal funds, and it’s hard to imagine a genuine case of racial segregation not violating the law.
Margarent Lehner, the school’s vice president for institutional advancement, told Inside Higher Ed that the classes should be fine because separate but equal versions of the class are available for members of other races.
“Because a few people object to it should not be a deciding factor in limiting these opportunities for at-risk students,” she said. “We certainly are not hampering other students also being successful. We have the same courses available to them as well.”
Moraine Valley’s predicament is similar to a recent one at Michigan State University, where a longstanding women-only study lounge was shut down shortly after a college professor discovered it and argued that it was a violation of Title IX’s ban on sex discrimination.
Is it OK?
All I know is, I definitely won’t be sorry if I don’t take any “all black classes”
Let them have segregation. That is what they want.
“should be fine because separate but equal versions of the class are available for members of other races.”
I thought in Brown vs. Board of Education, SCOTUS overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson (”separate but equal”).
I guess I was wrong; segregated schools are just fine with liberals...
Moraine Valley says it’s simply trying to improve the odds of success for black students, who are typically less likely to graduate from the school.
Racism is alive and well in America, but it is not those the left would have you believe that are the real racist.
Whoa! THEY are supposed to develop appreciation for Diversity?
Maybe this is a good thing after all!
Makes you wonder why they made such a big fuss about segregation to begin with 50 years ago if it's what they wanted to begin with.
The only explanation is that the black racial agenda has never been pro or anti-segregation or really pro or anti-anything else, it's really just about finding some new excuses to agitate and cause trouble.
OMG. I can’t believe they had the chutzpah to state that phrase!
:: assess your purpose for college, assess your study strategies, set college and career goals, examine your values and decision-making skills, and develop an appreciation for diversity ::
Isn’t what high-school is for?
“Because a few people object to it should not be a deciding factor...”
I thought how it worked now was ONE objection was enough to turn our system aside. One person objects to a conservative speaker, they are blackballed, etc.
Not the worst thing in the world, but if it is another excuse for anti-white rhetoric then it truly should be shut down.
IMHO blacks are screwed, the guilty white sugar daddy script is dog eared, the virtue signaling conservative who patronizes blacks is quite frankly silly and stupid looking but worst of all the D party coalition pretty much hates them.
“That SCOTUS ruling is racist.It needs to be overturned. We want separate classrooms” Imagine Deray and BLM making that claim. Not farfetched
Actually there is no reason in the natural world that “segregation” would not occur. It is not bad in and of itself. It is natural. If they only want to associate with others like themselves, so be it. It’s freedom of association.
I just don’t like the laughable hypocrisy of these liberals. “Rules for thee but not for me”.
Depends on which side is PC.
This headline is just hysterical OMG Martin Luther King is turning in his grave for decades blacks fought for integration NOW they are thrilled to have blacks ONLY classes!!!!! These idiots are letting the DEMS move them backwards LMAO!!!!!
Let's see THAT balloon fly....
Well, it is ok. Who’s going to object? The castrated, spineless, metrosexual, bisexual millennial class? Cause white millennials are conditioned to expect mistreatment, with a smile and a facebook accolade.
There are already “women only” classes to keep those evil sexually harassing men out. Why not “black only”? paid for by those evil privileged Whites? Why not “muzzard only”, paid for by those evil Christians who keep saying bad things about those nice, tolerant, non-violent muzzards?
Many blacks are ill prepared for college, just a sad fact. This is just an equally sad attempt to prepare them. My suggestion is to focus on the previous 12 years of school to prepare blacks for college. It’s just a suggestion.
“... segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” Democrat George Wallace
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