Daily Beast: Welcome to the ‘White Identity Retreat’: The Rise in Student Segregation

[TomSea]

Welcome to the ‘White Identity Retreat’: The Rise in Student Segregation

More universities are warming to the idea that students should be segregated by race in clubs, diversity initiatives, housing, and conversations about race.

Racial segregation in higher education is not just a topic confined to history classrooms.

After last year’s protests across the country over racial inequality, more universities have warmed to the idea that students should be segregated by race in clubs, diversity initiatives, housing, and conversations about race.

Come November, the University of Vermont will host a three-day “Examining White Identity Retreat” for students who self-identify as white.

The retreat aims to educate students about white privilege, start a dialogue to combat racism at the university, and “conceptualize and articulate whiteness from a personal and systemic lens,” according to the university’s website. The University of Oregon is planning similar retreats for January 2017, one for white students and one for white faculty members.

Last June, minority students, faculty, and staff at the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s Multicultural Student Center held separate meetings for minority students and white students to discuss the shootings of African-American men in Missouri and Louisiana.

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I can't believe all this stuff that is going on, when I was in school, we were tolerant of each other, relatively at least. There really wasn't this kind of stuff going on. Yes, racism has existed  and will always exist.

Things were even much better 8 years ago, before Obama took over. That said, even before then, there was some upheaval; we can't forget the LA Riots, Liberty City in Florida, these things have still happened periodically but we seem to be in a down spin now. I think both of those events happened in the '90s.

[Jazzhead]

It's old school these days to favor integration and the evaluation of one another by the content of our characters.  It's all about tribalism and grievance mongering.   Martin Luther King is a quaint anachronism; the future belongs to Malcolm X.   That's, unfortunately, the lasting legacy of Obama.