The best response to this is to edit it to switch the races. It points out the blindingly obvious:
“A group of white students at the Claremont Colleges in search of a roommate insist that the roommate not be a colored person.
Student Jane Whitbread posted on Facebook that white students in need of housing arrangements should reach out to either her or two other students with whom she plans to live in an off-campus house. The post states that “white people only” will be considered for this living opportunity. “I don’t want to live with any colored folks,” Whitbred added.
“This is directed to protect white people, not colored people. Don’t see how this is racist at all...”
“White people are allowed to create safe segregated spaces. It is not racism or discriminatory, it is self preservation. White racism no longer exists.”
“We don’t want to have to tiptoe around fragile colored feelings in a space where we just want to relax and be comfortable,” commented a Heterosexual Studies major. “I could live with colored people, but I would be far more comfortable living with other white people.”
“Colored people are always mad when they don’t feel included but at the end of the day y’all are ill-mannered and violent and if a white person feels they need to protect themselves from that toxic environment THEY CAN! Quick to try to jump on a white person but you won’t call your black friends out when they’re being racist” noted a White Studies major. “I’m not responding to NO comments and NOPE I don’t wanna have a dialogue.”
It is not clear whether or not this refusal of dialogue represents the approaches to conversation on racism with fellow students encouraged by professors of White Studies at Pitzer College.
Another RA and White Student Union member added to the thread of comments, “Black people have cause [sic] so much mf [sic] crime on these campuses ... why in the world would I want to live with that? Bring that into my home? A place that is supposed to be safe for me?”
Brilliant example.
I do that exercise all the time. Doing so peels back the facade for people who won’t do it.
It would be fun if there was a college campus you could put that up at, just to see what the reaction would be. I am guessing there would be theater sized safe-spaces, lots of microphones, public speakers, federal officials, etc.
Good job!