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In reply to the discussion: Black men only: UConn's proposed 'learning community' sparks controversy [View all]JustAnotherGen
(31,818 posts)142. Um some of us
Have no choice - we have dark faces and America is experienced differently as black people.
People ID me as such an treat me as such - its not like I could ever get away with self identifying as blonde light eyed Eastern European. I mean I could but I'd be crazy to try.
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Black men only: UConn's proposed 'learning community' sparks controversy [View all]
romanic
Jan 2016
OP
It's interesting how nobody complains about the nursing majors, or crew participants, or whatever
Recursion
Jan 2016
#9
Why is that a problem for you- it literally is a common interest, or did that fly over your head?
bettyellen
Jan 2016
#53
If white students see that university enforced blacks-only dorms are permitted,
Nye Bevan
Jan 2016
#30
I think it is a good idea but I sure do like this article about it from U Conn's own paper
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2016
#7
A Google search brings up a few rt, Fox News and other similar sources with only the Daily Campus
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2016
#12
Homogenous clubs and frats doesn't seem to have hurt white students too much. nt
bemildred
Jan 2016
#16
The dorm is 200,000 sq feet, housing hundreds of students of all sorts, this is a section of a floor
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2016
#19
So if a town council democratically votes to divide its town-owned public housing
Nye Bevan
Jan 2016
#36
Here's a question, should realtors be able to discriminate based on race? n/t
Humanist_Activist
Jan 2016
#42
Yes, of course, that doesn't make it right, it sounds to me like you want to overturn...
Humanist_Activist
Jan 2016
#76
Wait, hold the phone. You support segregation by race in housing?!? Did you land on the wrong site?
X_Digger
Jan 2016
#127
If black males themselves are requesting it and it is voluntary I think it's great.
CTyankee
Jan 2016
#21
if learning is the issue, why not open to all who need learning-enhanced housing?
wordpix
Jan 2016
#57
because each would benefit from having their own ethnic grouping. That's fine.
CTyankee
Jan 2016
#59
IMO, there's no benefit to "ethnic grouping" re: making a learning env't available
wordpix
Jan 2016
#60
Not everbody will want that kind of housing and they still could go into the mixed dorms.
CTyankee
Jan 2016
#62
my husband said that at UCONN the team members are together, regardless of race.
CTyankee
Jan 2016
#75
Isn't such reasoning the very antithesis of the purported benefits of diversity,
branford
Jan 2016
#70
while the women's team is still fabulous and their graduation rate is excellent...
CTyankee
Feb 2016
#144
The women's team did a LOT for women's sports in this country. I loved their ascent and
CTyankee
Feb 2016
#146
oh, god, too much sports stuff for me...you and my hubby could go on and on about
CTyankee
Feb 2016
#148
No, the university is building housing only open to those of a particular race.
Nye Bevan
Jan 2016
#25
If the students are demanding university-enforced racially segregated housing,
Nye Bevan
Jan 2016
#29
Even if a majority of the students wanted "separate but equal" racially segregated housing,
Nye Bevan
Jan 2016
#37
If a majority of the citizens of Mississippi had wanted to keep the Jim Crow laws,
Nye Bevan
Jan 2016
#40
Free clue: Five guys of the same race renting a 5 bedroom apartment is free association.
X_Digger
Jan 2016
#128
So you are basically advocating for a return to the world of the 1950s, Jim Crow and all?
Humanist_Activist
Jan 2016
#77
My honest assessment, you seem to have a complete lack of understanding of society...
Humanist_Activist
Feb 2016
#129
Link to where racially segregating student housing improves graduation rates?
Nye Bevan
Feb 2016
#162
that's just silly. they will have their basic freshman year class load and interact with lots
CTyankee
Jan 2016
#64
Some colleges have difficult course loads for new freshmen and then there are all the
CTyankee
Jan 2016
#69
Ummm.... the fact that a white or Asian student would not be permitted to live there? (nt)
Nye Bevan
Jan 2016
#80
The argument that black people actually benefit by being segregated from white people
Nye Bevan
Jan 2016
#100
I don't think I've ever seen quite so many pro-segregation arguments advanced
Nye Bevan
Jan 2016
#113
Yes. This is happening in a lot of areas in education based on evidence that it works.
Iris
Jan 2016
#124
While others recognize the relevant differences between safe spaces and segregation.
LanternWaste
Feb 2016
#135
I think some are missing an important point here - there is more than 1 learning community at UConn
Iris
Jan 2016
#122
Students choosing to live together because they share an interest in innovation, or human rights,
Nye Bevan
Feb 2016
#158
Yep. The claim that people somehow benefit when their contact with people of other races is reduced,
Nye Bevan
Feb 2016
#157
Why exclude Native Americans, Asians, and whites, from the "scholar/leader program"?
Nye Bevan
Feb 2016
#159
Native Americans ARE ALREADY being discriminated against, and it's not by black men
JI7
Feb 2016
#175
In that event, one or more of the frats could host ScHOLA2RS in their houses.
KamaAina
Feb 2016
#174
Yep, defending this kind of thing does lead to some tricky, difficult-to-answer questions.
Nye Bevan
Feb 2016
#196