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[quote=Anonymous]NP here.
From what it looks like, the problem is not that white people were excluded in the sense that whites attempted to attend the meeting and were outright denied.  From what I gathered it sounds more so like the BLM group irresponsibly advertised their preferences for attendees and it was interpreted as being exclusionary.

That's hardly uncommon and there are all kinds of examples of such irresponsible exclusionary behavior by groups all over this country - where people of a particular race, religion, gender, sexuality, etc. aren't necessarily stopped at the door with, "No you can't come in" but more so people are deterred from wanting to go in to begin with because of the less than welcoming attitudes of the group members.

For instance...
Anybody remember Sigma Alpha Epsilon making national news when an entire bus full of members of its University of Oklahoma chapter began singing and laughing along with a racist song, filled with racial slurs and references to lynching about never admitting black students to the fraternity?  SAE’s Yale chapter was reportedly also responsible for enforcing a “white-women only” policy at their fraternity parties. 
Then there was the recent incident at Texas A&M where a group of about 60 juniors from a charter school whose student population is predominantly black and Latino were touring the university and racist slurs were aimed at them by a group of mostly white A&M students.  Texas A&M can't prohibit people of color from attending the university - much like that particular BLM group can't prohibit whites from using the library - but their behavior definitely wasn't what one would consider very "welcoming" thus it came across as exclusionary.  [/quote]

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