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Purveyor (29,220 posts)

Debate Flares After Black College Students Seek A Non-White Roommate
   
In most respects, the roommate-wanted notice seemed routine. Three students at the Claremont colleges in Southern California were looking for a fourth this summer to join them in an off-campus house. They added a caveat in parentheses: “POC only,” they said, using a common abbreviation for people of color.

When a classmate challenged that condition, the Pitzer College student who posted the notice on Facebook pushed back. “It’s exclusive I don’t want to live with any white folks,” wrote Karé Ureña, who is black.

--CLIP
Pitzer President Melvin Oliver — a sociologist who is an expert on racial inequality — sent a message to the campus community Wednesday about the housing ad and the debate it sparked. It read, in part:

While Pitzer is a community of individuals passionately engaged in establishing intracultural safe spaces for marginalized groups, the Facebook post and several subsequent comments are inconsistent with our Mission and values. …

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/08/11/debate-flares-after-black-college-students-seek-a-non-white-roommate/

Haveadream (1,585 posts)

55. Nonsense

Living life in the US as a POC may be many things but the privileged status as a "snowflake" is not one of them. POC spend the entirety of their lives "learning to live with and interact with" white people who are afforded advantages they have done nothing to earn and at the same time remain oblivious about.

mwrguy (3,058 posts)

2. White people astounded that not everyone wants to be around them all the time

The first time their privilege is challenged and they don't know what to do.

MrScorpio (65,559 posts)

77. That's what I've been saying too.

It's remarkable how hard it is for some to see this very thing.

^ I hope this racist POS never had subordinates when he was in the military.

And on it goes...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028094202

[Delmar]

Response to Purveyor (Original post)Fri Aug 12, 2016, 07:58 PM
Star Member panader0 (14,816 posts)
8. When I started my freshman year in '68

I, (a 17 yo white guy), had a white roommate. We both knew within a day or two that we weren't suited for each other. Down the hall was a black guy, only 16, who felt the same way
about his roomie. So we switched. We became fast friends, went everywhere together,
double dated etc. Our dorm room was the scene. I learned an awful lot that year.

Wow, what a hero.

And that's how DUmmy panader earned a place in the pantheon of American civil rights icons, right up there with William Pitt and his black girlfriend that Pitt took a beating over.

From the grooveyard of forgotten favorites:

Sat Apr 11, 2015, 11:54 AM
WilliamPitt (58,179 posts)
 
The day I got the living shit beaten out of me.


Her name was Heather, I was 13, she was Black, and she was my first real girlfriend. We were together for two weeks when the Boston Marathon came along. I grew up on the Newton/Brighton line, right by Boston College at the top of Heartbreak Hill. Heather had never been to the Marathon for real before - cheering the runners as they defeated Heartbreak Hill while the BC keg parties howled and cheered - so I showed her the show.

While I was walking her back to my house for some lunch, a car filled with upperclassmen from my school passed us. The car windows were stuffed with astonished faces that, as they faded from view, became twisted in palpable rage.

And person after person after person after person looked daggers at us as we walked arm in arm down Commonwealth Avenue in unabashedly liberal Boston, Massachusetts. I rode the Green Line with her to the Orange Line - the metropolitan version of walking your girl home - and five older men in the traincar stared at us with open loathing as we held hands.

The next day, I went to school, and the upperclassmen from the car that had passed us - joined by several of their friends because apparently word of my racial heresy had spread - waylaid me in a hallway. "What are you doing with that n****r!" they screamed, and I mean SCREAMED, utterly unhinged. "Did you dip your wick with that n****r? DID YOU **** THAT N****R? DID YOU?"

And then they beat the shit out of me, right then and there, for the crime of squiring a Black girl to the Marathon.

It was a formative experience on a variety of levels...so all of you husbanding this idea that the North is superior to the South on issues of racism can go pound sand. You're wrong, and once upon a time, I had the bruises to prove it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026489882

[SVPete]

OK, those black students and the Asian student are attending a private college whose annual tuition is, IIRC, >$48K, books probably not included, and >$8K if they do the meal plan. My son's tuition & books at CSU San Jose were on the order of $7K-$9K in his final year, and he did his freshman and sophomore work at a local JC (= much lower cost). Tell me again who's enjoying "privilege"?

Those females should stop worrying about being black or Asian and start learning to be simply a decent human being (hint: being racists, as they are, is NOT being a decent human being).

[CollectivismMustDie]

Sat Apr 11, 2015, 11:54 AM
WilliamPitt (58,179 posts)
 
The day I got the living shit beaten out of me.


Her name was Heather, I was 13, she was Black, and she was my first real girlfriend. We were together for two weeks when the Boston Marathon came along. I grew up on the Newton/Brighton line, right by Boston College at the top of Heartbreak Hill. Heather had never been to the Marathon for real before - cheering the runners as they defeated Heartbreak Hill while the BC keg parties howled and cheered - so I showed her the show.

While I was walking her back to my house for some lunch, a car filled with upperclassmen from my school passed us. The car windows were stuffed with astonished faces that, as they faded from view, became twisted in palpable rage.

And person after person after person after person looked daggers at us as we walked arm in arm down Commonwealth Avenue in unabashedly liberal Boston, Massachusetts. I rode the Green Line with her to the Orange Line - the metropolitan version of walking your girl home - and five older men in the traincar stared at us with open loathing as we held hands.

The next day, I went to school, and the upperclassmen from the car that had passed us - joined by several of their friends because apparently word of my racial heresy had spread - waylaid me in a hallway. "What are you doing with that n****r!" they screamed, and I mean SCREAMED, utterly unhinged. "Did you dip your wick with that n****r? DID YOU **** THAT N****R? DID YOU?"

And then they beat the shit out of me, right then and there, for the crime of squiring a Black girl to the Marathon.

It was a formative experience on a variety of levels...so all of you husbanding this idea that the North is superior to the South on issues of racism can go pound sand. You're wrong, and once upon a time, I had the bruises to prove it.

When I drank way too much and woke up with a severe hangover, I didn't blame it on some fictional bunch of fellow students beating me up. Nor did I lay it at the feet of racial issues.

I quit drinking.

With your hallucinations in mind, maybe you should too, willy.


CMD

[98ZJUSMC]

MrScorpio (65,559 posts)

77. That's what I've been saying too.

It's remarkable how hard it is for some to see this very thing.

No.  What's remarkable is that an unremarkable asshole like you survived 20 years in the Military.  Or, maybe you didn't?     

[Carl]

MrScorpio (65,559 posts)

77. That's what I've been saying too.

It's remarkable how hard it is for some to see this very thing.

It`s remarkable how a water head like you Lamond can breathe without being told to.

[RayRaytheSBS]

No.  What's remarkable is that an unremarkable asshole like you survived 20 years in the Military.  Or, maybe you didn't?     

IIRC, Lamond was in the air force and served some kind of supply function there. I could easily see him doing well in that branch of service,  as most MOS's in the Air Force have nothing to do with direct contact with anything resembling an enemy of the nation. In doing this, he seems to think he speaks for those of us who have played a more direct role in fighting the enemies of our country.

Lamond also seems to think there is racism everywhere, not realizing that the military is one of the most race-blind organizations in the united states.  The fact that he cannot let go of this is incredibly sad if he did serve.