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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Saw this article in the WaPo and it made me think of this thread.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/08/11/debate-flares-after-black-college-students-seek-a-non-white-roommate/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories-2_roommate-805a-stream%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

[quote]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 [because] I don’t want to live with any white folks,” wrote Karé Ureña, who is black.

Ureña, 20, a junior at Pitzer, and one of her roommates, Sajo Jefferson, 19, a sophomore at Pomona, defended their query in a statement to The Washington Post. Ureña describes herself as Afro-Caribbean and Jefferson identifies as a multiracial black person. Minority communities on campus, they said, constantly must deal with issues that arise when they are surrounded by classmates who don’t understand where they are coming from and have little interest in finding out.

“When and if you understand this context, it becomes clear that students of color seeking a living space that is all-POC is not only reasonable, but can be necessary,” they wrote to The Post. “We live in a world where the living circumstances of POC are grounded in racist social structures that we can not opt out of. These conditions threaten the minds, bodies and souls of people of color both within and without the realms of higher education. We are fighting to exist.”[/quote]

Imagine, for one minute, that these students were white and posted a roommate-wanted ad that said, “Whites only apply.”  Imagine the outrage.  Then, imagine the backlash if the students tried to defend the ad.  
Hypocrites.  [/quote]

Great article showing how we've come full circle

We desegregate, yet people choose to segregate by race.  They need a "safe place."  Well, one comment mentioned historically black colleges. They were created to level the playing field & to create safe havens for blacks. They still exist. There are charter schools created specifically for black males.

I don't know what to think anymore. But I do know this isn't the UNITED States. [/quote]

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