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UConn building dorm for black men only.
Posted on 1/30/16 at 3:03 pm
Posted on 1/30/16 at 3:03 pm
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The University of Connecticut is building a special residence for those who identify as African-American males, as a way to boost retention and graduation rates. Critics of the plan are calling the arrangement "racially segregated housing."
As part of its Learning Community Program, the university has established "houses" designed to match students with like-minded peers, in order to foster development and to "make UConn feel like home," according to the school's website. In addition to houses aimed at environmentally-conscious students or nursing majors, for example, a new house under construction will cater to African-American men only.
In 2012, the graduation rate for all UConn students was 82.5 percent, while the graduation rate for black males was 54 percent. That was the main impetus to build the new house, according to Hines.
"It is a space for African American men to one, come together and validate their experiences that they may have on campus," Hines added. "Number two, it's also a space where they can have conversation and also talk with individuals who come from the same background who share the same experience."
Insanity
And people laughed at me when I said that the end game of the racial b.s. of the last 5 years was segregation. Here's the insanity on full display.
This post was edited on 1/30/16 at 3:04 pm
Posted on 1/30/16 at 3:05 pm to Horsemeat
What's even crazier is their Whites only dorm..
Posted on 1/30/16 at 3:06 pm to Horsemeat
New age segregation. Guess it wasnt such a bad idea in the first place.
Posted on 1/30/16 at 3:07 pm to Horsemeat
Don't they already have dorms for athletes?
Posted on 1/30/16 at 3:08 pm to Horsemeat
As long as the dorms are still equal I don't see what could possibly go wrong
Posted on 1/30/16 at 3:09 pm to Horsemeat
We already tried this. It didn't work.
Posted on 1/30/16 at 3:09 pm to Horsemeat
I've said it before, if you give individuals of any race the choice, they will almost always self-segregate. Plessy v. Ferguson had it right, they just couldn't make "equal" happen in the Jim Crow South.
Posted on 1/30/16 at 3:11 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
perhaps, but if that's what they want, as the special man says...
"Let em have it"
"Let em have it"
Posted on 1/30/16 at 3:12 pm to Horsemeat
I've always said that the majority of would blacks support Jim Crow laws if they were called something else.
Posted on 1/30/16 at 3:13 pm to Horsemeat
I assume there will be a whites only dorm also.
Posted on 1/30/16 at 3:14 pm to High C
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I've said it before, if you give individuals of any race the choice, they will almost always self-segregate.
Integration destroyed much of the existing black merchant/businessmen class. It's crazy how black income and education were on a fairly steady (though not prolific) incline up until the advent of integration, the War on Drugs, and the War on Poverty.
Posted on 1/30/16 at 3:14 pm to upgrayedd
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No, that's fricking racist
Yeah there's no room in this world for that shite. Get your Phil Anselmo loving arse out!
Posted on 1/30/16 at 3:15 pm to upgrayedd
what's mine is mine and what's yours is ours
the victim mindset in a nutshell
the victim mindset in a nutshell
Posted on 1/30/16 at 3:16 pm to HempHead
Jackson MS is ground zero to your point
Posted on 1/30/16 at 3:17 pm to Horsemeat
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Yeah there's no room in this world for that shite. Get your Phil Anselmo loving arse out!
I just saw that story
The metal world is getting soft.
1. They were offended (I thought that was what metal was all about)
2. He blamed it on too much white wine.
WTF's all around
Posted on 1/30/16 at 3:19 pm to Horsemeat
I would imagine lawsuits are forthcoming?
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