Debate Flares After Black College Students Seek A Non-White Roommate

[calm_thinker]

33. Brown v Board of Education

so before I get flamed, after reading some of the responses - I'm sort of saddened. I mean this is DU.

Bias - left unchecked, even amplified and legitimized through acceptance, is exactly how we reverse any progress made by those who have, and continue to fight for equality and civil rights.

And when I speak of Bias - I am speaking about all of us in our our day to day lives, we all have biases, and unless we are called out on it, we will naturally continue to be blind to them, and subsequently the damage our bias leaves behind.

So I will speak out against this bias, otherwise I will have silently approved of it.

In my opinion only there was no need to add a line of (POC only) and the school acted positively to call out their students bias when it didn't need to. I have attached the full statement:

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. …

This is but another example to us that social media is not an effective platform to engage in complex dialog on seemingly intractable critical issues that have varied histories and contested understandings. They create more heat than light and invite extreme viewpoints that intentionally obfuscate the nuanced context that surrounds these issues. Pitzer offers its new 2-course Intercultural Understanding requirement and dedicates new curricular and extra curricular programming to address difficult issues of racism, diversity, community discourse and national and international political conflict.

"Separate but Equal" proved to be nothing but unequal.

.... We are greater than Us vs Them ....