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

[MrScorpio]

115. The thing is here, is that quite often...

Whites expected people of color to account for their own entire race and racial identity.

Frankly, I think that it's odd of you to refer to associating with black people as a "enriching experience." Do you use that tone and phrasing whenever you associate with all other white people? Probably not.

If not, why should that be any different from associating with people of another race?

Whether you know this or not, message that you're sending here could come across to a person of color as one where you're saying that you're one of the 'good' white people, simply because you hung around with black people.

Although you mean well, something like that could be perceived as being close to fetishization.

The thing here is that people of color are ordinarily unable to avoid white people and the underlying system of white supremacy in public spaces. White supremacy is everywhere and it exists in the background whether you notice it or not. If you're a person of color, dealing with it all the time can be quite exhausting, and once you're aware of it, it's pretty much impossible to ignore.

I can see why these students would like to avail themselves of an opportunity to recharge in their own private space.