Posted on 04/30/2019 6:35:09 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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Today’s racial segregation, by contrast, consists of ethnic groups walling themselves off within institutions. In the past two years the National Association of Scholars surveyed 173 colleges and universities, public and private, in all 50 states. We found 46% of schools segregate student orientation programs, 43% segregate residential arrangements, and 72% segregate graduation ceremonies. Though these arrangements are ostensibly voluntary, students can’t easily opt out. The social pressure to conform is overwhelming.
This kind of racial separatism on campus isn’t new. We pursued case studies of Yale, Wesleyan and Brown universities, where we found that black students began to organize exclusive groups with separatist agendas as early as the 1960s.
Begin with Yale, the subject of a 210-page study released by NAS this week. The Black Students Association at Yale, or BSAY, was founded in 1964 as the Yale Discussion Group. Black students started the organization because they felt Yale recruited them merely for show. The accusation may have been unfair but it touched something real.
In 1964 Yale’s newly appointed president, Kingman Brewster, declared an all-out “effort to cure racial injustice.” This meant discarding Yale’s old policy of admitting only highly qualified black students in favor of aggressive outreach to the inner cities. Brewster’s like-minded admissions dean, R. Inslee “Inky” Clark, openly set forth a plan to enroll black students regardless of their test scores or other evidence of academic achievement. Brewster and Clark believed they could turn anyone into a Yale man. (The university didn’t admit female undergraduates until 1969.)
The new zeal to boost numbers brushed aside hard questions about college readiness and cultural adjustment. The results were catastrophic for the students. More than a third of the 35 black students Yale enrolled in 1966 dropped out during their first year
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When I attended a liberal college in upstate NY in the seventies the Blacks had their own "house". I was amazed that they didn't want to be part of the campus and integrate, very odd.
Next they will want their own drinking fountain.
And as the back of the bus is the "coolest" place for kids to seek, they'll probably want to be able to make the back of the bus only for Blacks.
Nature follows the same pattern.
Every institution that the Socialists have taken over has suffered those now-totally-predictable “unintended results.” This is due to miseducation in our universities, that have been dedicated to the idea that everyone is the same in each identifiable group.
Disaster has ensued. Say what you will about the rigors of the old “rugged individualism,” but at least it recognized unique individuals existed, instead of mashing people into a preconceived mold according to the group into which they were labeled.
If you were recruited to an elite university primarily for your ethnicity but did not have the same intelligence as the majority of students, would you want to be around them constantly and feel the pain? Hence people self segregate for some peace. A better study would be to document the fate of these recruited students fifteen years after they leave.
I’ve never saw a Polish Student Union on my university campus. LOL. It’s not the same thing.
“Segregated dorms”...”White/colored drinking fountains”...”Cool kids at the back of the bus”...
Now THAT would make for a great Chris Rock / Dave Chappelle SNL skit. Got any more “cool segregation” themes?
Check out the Polish Society at Harvard.
Allan Bloom wrote about this in his 1987 “The Closing of the American Mind.”
It’s a good thing we heeded his warnings back then, eh? If we had just leaned back in our recliners for another steaming hot cup of normalcy bias, things could have been really bad by now.
Free here:
https://blindhypnosis.com/the-closing-of-the-american-mind-pdf.html
Did you go to college? I did. Blacks segregated themselves in the 1970’s. The Black Student Union being the biggest racist org on my campus. There was an all black fraternity house right next to mine.
Whoops, looks like that link is a scam. My apologies.
If the admin moderator would remove it, that would probably be best.
So, I’m curious: when some of them get jobs and they have to work with people of “other colors” - how does that work out?
Equal but separate.
Rather often it works out in the form of discrimination lawsuits!
“Dey gots too much privilege at whitey’s house!”
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