Berkeley ‘Person of Color’ House Bans White Folks From Common Spaces
By Jeff Charles | Aug 19, 2022 8:00 PM ET
There’s nothing quite like fighting racism by engaging in more racism, is there? In the latest episode of “Woke Discrimination,” we have the Person of Color House, which is an off-campus housing area for students attending U.C. Berkeley.
A photo posted on Reddit displayed the rules around having guests in the house’s common area. Under the section titled “Guests in Common Spaces,” the document reads: “Guests are allowed in common spaces but please be mindful if there are house members in the room beforehand. White guests are not allowed in common spaces (see intro).”
In the document’s introduction, the POC House explains that many of the students residing in the residence moved there “to be able to avoid white violence and presence.” It instructs students that if they are bringing a guest who lacks a sufficient level of melanin, they must announce it in the online chat and notify others “if they are white.”
But that’s not all.
In order to protect these poor, weak, and defenseless minority students, the rules also instruct members to “avoid bringing parents/family members that express bigotry” and point out that “Queer, Black, and Indigenous members should not have to avoid common spaces because of homophobic or racist parents/family members.”
The Person of Color Theme House is “a five-story, 30-room home that can accommodate up to 56 students,” according to The College Fix. Its purpose is to serve “low-income, first generation, immigrant and marginalized students of color.”
This is not the first controversy the house has elicited. A former member wrote a post on Medium in 2020 complaining that the house became known for its “call-out culture” that resulted from “the lack of intersectionality.”
“Several members have been criticized for being white/white passing, aligning themselves with whiteness, or allowing white violence in the house,” the author wrote.
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https://redstate.com/jeffc/2022/08/19/berkeley-person-of-color-house-bans-white-folks-from-common-spaces-n614795
