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re: Madison, Wi becoming Berkeley of Midwest

Posted on 2/16/17 at 1:40 pm to
Posted by kingbob
Sorrento, LA
Member since Nov 2010
71144 posts
Posted on 2/16/17 at 1:40 pm to
How many of those UW students are descendants of slaves who labored in bondage at plantations in the state? None? Oh yeah, Wisconsin was a free state? Oh, then f$&k them.
Posted by theGarnetWay
Washington, D.C.
Member since Mar 2010
27508 posts
Posted on 2/16/17 at 1:44 pm to
I mean. UW-Madison is offering a The Problem with Whiteness course next year. (Seriously)

And of course, it won't be taught by a white person. Which is interesting. How would a Problem with Blackness taught by whitey go?

Course a part of the African Cultural Studies
This post was edited on 2/16/17 at 1:47 pm
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
158988 posts
Posted on 2/16/17 at 1:51 pm to
quote:

is Wisconsin really considered part of the "Midwest"?

they talk through their noses, so yes
Posted by Darth_Vader
A galaxy far, far away
Member since Dec 2011
74568 posts
Posted on 2/16/17 at 1:53 pm to
quote:

Black students should be offered free tuition and housing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison because blacks were legally barred from education during slavery and UW-Madison remains out of reach for black students today, the student government said Wednesday.


I 100% support giving free tuition and boarding to anyone who was kept from Attending UW-Madison because they were held in slavery here in the US.
Posted by CoachDon
Louisville
Member since Sep 2014
12409 posts
Posted on 2/16/17 at 1:56 pm to
How about double the white kids tuition, and they can pay the black kids way for school, and then with their taxes when they graduate?
Posted by Chucktown_Badger
The banks of the Ashley River
Member since May 2013
37559 posts
Posted on 2/16/17 at 2:01 pm to
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More importantly, is Wisconsin really considered part of the "Midwest"?


You serious Clark?
Posted by dcrews
Houston, TX
Member since Feb 2011
32130 posts
Posted on 2/16/17 at 2:21 pm to
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Why don't some of these students demanding free tuition for the black students just pay their tuition for them?


Exactly.

Just more of the same liberal mindset that they should help everyone, just with everyone else's money.
Posted by GenesChin
The Promise Land
Member since Feb 2012
37861 posts
Posted on 2/16/17 at 2:36 pm to
I see no problem with students wanting to fight against the absurd rising costs of tuition and to make higher education more accessible to lower socioeconomic students wanting to work hard.


To say that people based on skin color should get special treatment? Pretty sure that's racism
Posted by udtiger
Over your left shoulder
Member since Nov 2006
117113 posts
Posted on 2/16/17 at 2:39 pm to
Becoming?

That place was a hardcore liberal bastion back in the last 80s.
Posted by Chucktown_Badger
The banks of the Ashley River
Member since May 2013
37559 posts
Posted on 2/16/17 at 2:42 pm to
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Or is this some type of reparations mumbo jumbo


Reparations?

Posted by voros79
Member since Nov 2015
383 posts
Posted on 2/16/17 at 3:47 pm to
Becoming?
It's Been like Berkley for years.
Posted by aVatiger
Water
Member since Jan 2006
27967 posts
Posted on 2/16/17 at 3:49 pm to
Becoming? Lulz

Madison had been liberal capital of Midwest for a while. I can't begin to tell you how many people in that town live in a fairy world
Posted by Emteein
Baton Rouge
Member since Jun 2011
4005 posts
Posted on 2/16/17 at 3:55 pm to
um, the black students at Wisonsin already do get free tuition. they are called football players.

This post was edited on 2/16/17 at 3:59 pm
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
299716 posts
Posted on 2/16/17 at 3:58 pm to
Go for it. I say open admission as well
Posted by Honky Lips
Member since Dec 2015
2828 posts
Posted on 2/16/17 at 4:07 pm to
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Madison has been that way for a while.
.

It's a shame cause it really is a cool arse town.
Posted by Chucktown_Badger
The banks of the Ashley River
Member since May 2013
37559 posts
Posted on 2/16/17 at 4:14 pm to
When i was in school there, they go into trouble for photoshopping a black student into some new student brochure because it was all white people in the picture. (I was there in the late 90s).

Truth.

Snopes

And it was a shitty photoshop job too.



D'oh.

quote:

To make things worse for embarrassed university officials, Shabazz happens to be a prominent African American student activist who has never attended a UW football game and is deeply involved in efforts to promote campus diversity.

Barrows said that Seltzer gave him a draft copy of the admissions packet with student football fans pictured on the cover. He said that when he saw all of the fans were white, he told Seltzer: “You can do better than that, Rob. Find something more diverse.” Seltzer said his office spent the summer searching for cover photos that would illustrate greater diversity at UW, where minorities are 10 percent of the 40,000 students enrolled.

When he could not find one, he approved adding Shabazz’s photo to the crowd scene and Friedman’s office created the image for the cover.
This post was edited on 2/16/17 at 4:18 pm
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