Petition Demanding Black Students Be Exempt From Failing Grades Because Racism Has 1,300 Signatures

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Petition Demanding Black Students Be Exempt From Failing Grades Because Racism Has 1,300 Signatures

By Robert Gehl, December 17, 2014.
 

When Columbia Law School let Black students postpone their final exams because they might be “traumatized” by recent protests, they really let the cat out of the bag.

Now students at Oberlin College, one of the most liberal college in the country are demanding African-American students be completely exempt from failing this semester because they’re so deeply affected in “times like this.”

So far, the Ohio college has said they will allow professors to exercise “flexibility” in “emergency incomplete requests,” but has not given a flat out “pass” to all Black students.

This is making students really whiny. In a poorly written petition to Oberlin President Marvin Krislov – that has more than 1,300 signatures – the students lay out their “demands:”


Petition for Marvin Krislov to Suspend Standard Grading System
 

 I would really like to see the normal grading system suspended for this semester and replaced with a no-fail mercy period. Administrators should require professors to exercise complete flexibility in what students are saying they can produce academically. Require that every professor listen to what their students are saying and if that means rather than writing a paper students instead meet with their professor to simply discuss in groups their paper topics or if tests are taken collectively with professors there are ways to make sure we are learning what we are supposed to be learning in ways that are not so taxing in times like this. Students in this moment should have complete access to alternative modes of learning while we process what’s happening. Basically, no student especially black students and students of color should be failing a class this semester. A “C” should be the lowest grade students can receive this semester. Professors should be required to work with students, who would otherwise be at risk of failing, to create alternate means of accessing knowledge. This is a – Petition for Marvin Krislov to Suspend Standard Grading System – sign if you agree!

Giving a free pass to Black students while requiring the standard academic rigor for everyone else? No, that doesn’t sound racist at all, does it?

Ironically, students cite Oberlin College’s graduation of its first Black student 19 years before the Emancipation Proclamation as evidence that the school should give Blacks a free pass now. That student, George B. Vashon, went on to become a professor at Howard University. Back in 1844, did Vashon get a “free pass” because things were so traumatic for Blacks? Of course not.

Anything less that equal academic standards and rigor for all students would set Oberlin backward, not forward.

And that these students don’t see that is very sad.

http://downtrend.com/robertgehl/college-students-demand-blacks-be-exempt-from-failing-grades-because-racism/

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Frigging idiots.

[Relic]

This is what makes relations between the races worse.

Coddle blacks like they are inferior beings, unable to handle challenges. The result of that special treatment is that blacks become even more flawed. People like me see this, and resent the special treatment. What's more damaging, is that people like me will avoid blacks if at all possible, because this treatment, coupled with past experience, tells me that dealings with blacks are hugely unsatisfying.

Sowing the seeds of a race war?

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The result of that special treatment is that blacks become even more flawed and perpetually angry, and more demanding of even more and deeper 'special treatment'.
 
This headline was legitimately a little confusing to me. My experience in college was that giving Black people 'special grades' has always been the case. Colleges do not want to fail them no matter what they do, or do not do.
 
I guess what they are saying is that they want it to be open and institutionalized now, instead of under the table as it always has been up to now.

[musiclady]

This is what makes relations between the races worse.

Coddle blacks like they are inferior beings, unable to handle challenges. The result of that special treatment is that blacks become even more flawed. People like me see this, and resent the special treatment. What's more damaging, is that people like me will avoid blacks if at all possible, because this treatment, coupled with past experience, tells me that dealings with blacks are hugely unsatisfying.

Sowing the seeds of a race war?

This is the way the racism of the liberal elitist left reveals itself.  They treat blacks like spoiled children because they believe they ARE children.

Why do so few blacks see this??

[Relic]

This is the way the racism of the liberal elitist left reveals itself.  They treat blacks like spoiled children because they believe they ARE children.

Why do so few blacks see this??

It's tempting to say, because they ARE inferior.

[Fishrrman]

Relic wrote above:
[[ Sowing the seeds of a race war? ]]

Diversity, multiculturalism, egalitarianism -- ALL of these wild fantasies will contribute to an all-but inevitable "race war" in western nations that fail to grasp the importance of a common ethnicity and culture.

With blacks? Quite possibly, but in time it may be as much between blacks and the rising Hispanic demographic, as with the whites.

With muslims? This is a certainty. I state that with complete confidence that it -will- happen, unless the western nations wake up in time. That's why the mass demonstrations we're now seeing in Germany are a hopeful sign...

[Relic]

Diversity, multiculturalism, egalitarianism -- ALL of these wild fantasies will contribute to an all-but inevitable "race war" in western nations that fail to grasp the importance of a common ethnicity and culture.

With blacks? Quite possibly, but in time it may be as much between blacks and the rising Hispanic demographic, as with the whites.

With muslims? This is a certainty. I state that with complete confidence that it -will- happen, unless the western nations wake up in time. That's why the mass demonstrations we're now seeing in Germany are a hopeful sign...

I don't think I'll live to see it, but I am glad to see Hispanics rise to the majority. Whites, in large numbers, have become self loathing, and passive. Years of indoctrination have made that happen. It's discouraging to watch, and puts blacks in a position to demand almost anything. When Hispanics are the majority, they will have no patience for black victimhood. It will likely be a fairly violent transition.

As for muslims, I'm in complete agreement that it will happen, and I see no evidence that the West has the will to join the fight until it's too late.