So much for "diversity" on our colleges

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Killing free speech one campus at a time.

NOW SEGREGATION?!?!?

WTF are they putting in the water at the Colleges of hte USA?!?!

BECOMING ACADUMMIA right before our eyes.

http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/31322/

UMich students demand no-whites-allowed space to plot ‘social justice’ activism

A student activist group at the University of Michigan is demanding campus officials provide them with “a permanent designated space on central campus for Black students and students of color to organize and do social justice work.”

The demand is one of several lodged by “Students4Justice,” who this month ratcheted up campus demonstrations to pressure administrators to cave, complaining in a newly launched petition that President Mark Schlissel has snubbed their demands.

The clamor for a segregated space for students of color to organize social justice efforts comes even as the public university builds a $10 million center for black students in the center of campus.

In their demands, students explain why the new black student center is not enough, “because we want a space solely dedicated to community organizing and social justice work specifically for people of color.”

“We want documentation of past, current, and future student activism and this should be a permanent space that is staffed, and has resources for students to organize and share resources,” the demand letter states.

Leaders of “Students4Justice” did not respond to requests from The College Fix seeking comment. Campus spokesman Rick Fitzgerald told The Fix that at “this point, our colleagues in Student Life have been working with the Students4Justice leaders to better understand their concerns. This is our normal process.”

The demands caught the attention of the Michigan Review, an independent student news outlet which first reported on the issue — and criticized it.

“The same organization that criticizes the University for failing to create ‘an environment that engages in diversity, equity and inclusion,’ is calling upon the University to undermine these ideals by facilitating a sort of de facto segregation? One where space and resources are designated for students based solely on the color of their skin?” the Review wrote.

“To advocate for the ideals of diversity, equity and inclusion, while simultaneously calling upon the University to sanction these spaces on campus is both unprincipled and laughably regressive,” it added.

The demands were first presented last fall, but an updated version was refiled with administrators in late January after a series of incidents deemed racist, according to the demand letter.

This list of demands also call for more support for “marginalized” students “when oppressive attacks occur,” increasing the affirmative action of “Black, Arab, and other PoC” in tenured faculty, more readily alerting students on campus of “bias incidents,” and offering more financial aid for those of lower socioeconomic status.

Students4Justice bemoan what they perceive as a lack of action from campus leadership to these demands. In addition to the petition, earlier this month they held a sit-in, as well as a silent protest when prospective students visited campus.

“Our president has blatantly ignored us and it is time for us to speak up. We have been told that our demands are ‘rude,’” the group states on Facebook in announcing its petition. “We are calling on someone to care about students’ concerns and to lead us with integrity and help us fight against the oppression and hateful acts that try to destroy us and our community.”

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Baby wah wah!!!

Someone get them into a safe space stat!

 

Oh SHIT.  I'll meet you in the bunker.  Whites beware!

I agree with you, Seadoggie. This is crazy. 

Well ain't that America for Ya.

 

I'm not supporting this, but I'm not feeling terribly upset about a group of students petitioning for what they want and see where the chips land.

And yet he sees no problem with this authoritarian constitutional assault:

http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/02/21/iowa-republican-wants-party-affi...

on?

 

Like sprinkles?

"I'm not supporting this, but I'm not feeling terribly upset about a group of students petitioning for what they want and see where the chips land."

So if the statement read "UMich students demand no-blacks-allowed space.." you'd be just as tolerant?

Hey Thom, I see that you have no issues with offering your opinion on matters of race, so......

 

 

 

Thom, please comment on the mouthpiece for white nationalists, Steve Bannon,  holding the position of chief strategist for the POTUS, and his being named a principal member of the national security council...

 

 

It's not hard to offer your opinion...

 

 

I feel that Bannon is either a white nationalist, or he was willing to ride white nationalist ideology for profit and power. 

I find it frightening and abhorrent that Bannon a principal member of the national security council.