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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Do you still find it odd?
Do you not support freedom of association?
Do you still find it odd?
Do you not support freedom of association?
By some chance, was your upstate liberal college in Hamilton, NY?
Yep. Poor employers.
This dividing of cultures is actually how things will always naturally sort out if government doesn’t force a mixing influence. People will seek their own, not because of hate but because of cultural preference.
If we’re all about letting nature take its course, we ought to let this happen. Realize that if culture groups get too isolated, they get weaker.
I'm guessing you'd find many of those with “Affirmative Action Degrees” in mid-level jobs doing the same thing for the company they work for that they did for the school they went to......Providing cover for the “Box Checker Police”....
The “Peter Principle” is alive and well..../s
That happened at many other colleges. It's still happening to a lesser degree.
It's a shame that the elite colleges skim off the top of the applicant pool. Those students would probably excel at less competitive schools. Instead, the students really struggle. Those elite colleges have intense summer and year-round programs to try to reduce the drop-out rate.
Hey, people can do whatever they want and associate with whomever they want. I found it odd that Blacks fought for integration and then didn't want to integrate and wanted to be treated separately by race.
Segregation?
So what!
It is not abnormal!
Birds of a feather stick together!
With maybe some rare exception show me anything where blacks don't have separate groups? As much as some whites like to pretend, separation and segregation exist throughout our society. Not just with blacks either. Of course whites are expected to not be that way but also expected to accept that all other races do.
Well, whether it is "odd" or not kind of depends on the results, wouldn't you say?
I can understand perfectly well why, 65 years after a national commitment to "integration", that blacks would prefer something different.
Clearly, government "solutions" don't work.
Re: kids like the back of the bus as the coolest place so say Blacks Only there....
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Truly funny.
Working at two universities from 1969 to 2017 I know that the races separate when they have freedom. By nature. Every break room for employees ended up with a table or two of 99% blacks seeking each other out to have lunch together.
One tiny example: about 5 years ago the university where I worked saw that hundreds of white students sat on the east side of a student center and almost all the blacks sat on the west, past a row of plants and low shelving decorations dividing the room. The university had the planters torn up by workers and the floor refinished. They announced in the student paper and elsewhere diversity should be reinstated.
You guessed it: the two groups found a way to move tables and chairs to separate themselves again.
West Side Story: “One of your own kind. Stick with your own
kind.” (A Boy Like That/I have A Love By Leonard Bernstein).
“People will seek their own, not because of hate but because of cultural preference.”
“Birds of a feather flock together.” Old saying. Old acknowledgement of human nature and natural law. Old wisdom.
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Good one!
And as the back of the bus is the “coolest” place for kids to seek
Black Privilege.
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