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

[MrScorpio]

82. I've already pointed out the relevance of white supremacy and white privilege here.

Quite clearly, those who object with this person of color student's desire to have another person of color as a roommate have done so only by disregarding the fact that they've pointed out why that's connected to their request.

The entire premise is based on the fact that people of color have to live in a society that's predominately structured to facilitate white supremacy. This isn't a state secret. That student's desire to have another person of color has a roommate is simply a desire to create a space of solidarity comprised of people of color, against that prevailing white supremacist society.

I've also pointed out, that one great reason for this is that the person of color would not have to expend their precious time and effort dealing with whatever elements of white supremacy that a white roommate could or would invariably bring into their shared personal space, when they would otherwise rather focus on getting an education. Whether that's intentionally or not. I'm quite sure that the last thing that a person of color would want to deal with is the race based stress that whites usually exhibit whenever they're involved in discussions about race, not to mention any degree of white fragility.

However, in spite of everyone's concern about the desire of a person of color to have a non-white roommate, I don't see anywhere near enough white people doing anything about endemic and systematic white supremacy, so much so, that such a space of POC solidarity would be completely unnecessary, but do you?

I'm also sure that the inability to even discuss white supremacy, even though it was referred to in the article itself as a prevailing factor, is a good reason why we're not seeing eye to eye here.

After all, I'm pointing out that people of color all exist within their own normality, especially one that acts as a buffer against the prevailing systems of endemic and institutional white supremacy that our society is based on and, on the other hand, those beneficiaries of those systems routinely exercise their personal privilege to deny that such systems even exist.

I'm not dismissing your point of view because of your skin color, I'm pointing out that there's a bigger picture here that's being glossed over for whatever reason someone would want to do that.