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mac
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nw30
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It's not racism if blacks do it, right?
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UMich students demand no-whites-allowed space to plot ‘social justice’ activism
Mason Clark - The Kings College NYC •February 23, 2017
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.”
http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/31322/ |
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mrgybe
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Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2017 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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Retraction to follow shortly. |
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mat-ty
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mac
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real-human
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Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2017 1:35 am Post subject: |
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Actor Don Cheadle Says that Donald Trump Referred to Black Women as N***ers
Quote: | During a twitter exchange with Trump supports, Cheadle is asked why he harbors such antipathy towards Donald Trump. In response Cheadle offers tweets which bring Trump’s inherent racism to light. These tweets are a summary of a conversation that Trump initiated while playing some golf with strangers a while back. The father of Don Cheadle’s friend was in attendance. It is during this conversation that Trump asks if any of his golfing compatriots had ever engaged in sexual relations with a black woman-he replaces “woman” with the word “n***er”. Cheadle’s tweets have now gone viral: |
_________________ when good people stay silent the right wing are the only ones heard. |
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MalibuGuru
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Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2017 10:02 am Post subject: |
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And Lady Gaga said Baja bunker watches child porn.. |
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mac
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Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2017 10:19 am Post subject: |
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Malibu--you like Trump's racists comments as much as his lies? |
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MalibuGuru
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Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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War Correspondent Says Mosul Safer for Women than Sweden
warSTIG-AKE JONSSON/AFP/Getty Images
by VIRGINIA HALE
Award-winning war correspondent Magda Gad has tweeted from Mosul that the war-torn city is safer for women and more peaceful than Sweden’s capital city.
“There’s no law on the Islamic veil here, and it’s safer for a lone woman to be outside than Stockholm,” the war journalist said on Twitter. |
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jp5
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Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2017 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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MalibuGuru wrote: | War Correspondent Says Mosul Safer for Women than Sweden
warSTIG-AKE JONSSON/AFP/Getty Images
by VIRGINIA HALE
Award-winning war correspondent Magda Gad has tweeted from Mosul that the war-torn city is safer for women and more peaceful than Sweden’s capital city.
“There’s no law on the Islamic veil here, and it’s safer for a lone woman to be outside than Stockholm,” the war journalist said on Twitter. |
Where are all the big, strong Swedish men? Why aren't they out protecting their women? Where is the viking heritage now? |
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