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Three students at the Claremont colleges in Southern California were looking for a fourth this summer to join them in an off-campus house. They added a caveat in parentheses: “POC only,” they said, using a common abbreviation for people of color. When a classmate challenged that condition, the Pitzer College student who posted the notice on Facebook pushed back. “It’s exclusive [because] I don’t want to live with any white folks,” wrote Karé Ureña, who is black.
“When and if you understand this context, it becomes clear that students of color seeking a living space that is all-POC is not only reasonable, but can be necessary,” they wrote to The Post. “We live in a world where the living circumstances of POC are grounded in racist social structures that we can not opt out of. These conditions threaten the minds, bodies and souls of people of color both within and without the realms of higher education. We are fighting to exist.”....
“Our people are being killed. Every which way, through every which angle. Our people are being killed. Our housing arrangements are not racist. They are not exclusive. We are simply fighting to exist and we are fighting to exist in whatever way we can.”
originally posted by: odzeandennz
a reply to: JinMI
its hard to say what the first step is.
i do believe there is something driving these sentiments to get uglier and uglier.
im floored. im annoyed and livid. the irony of segregation because of segregation as a form of solution makes my head spin. its an inflated, overly complex and passed down sense of reprisal that is plaguing race relations in America.
what is the first step... i dont know.
to me, its the equivalence of a being trapped in a bubble. each step forward man takes inside that bubble, inevitably returns him right by where he started, while from the inside he appears to be moving forward.
progress is a subjective facade to regression.
originally posted by: burdman30ott6
a reply to: odzeandennz
This honestly doesn't bother me. That said, I do believe it should be acceptable for anyone to do this. If a group of females wish to have only female roomates, if a group of males wish to have only make roomates, if a group of Asians wish to have only Asian roomates, and yes, if a group of whites wish to have only white roomates, I sincerely think it's their business and their business alone. Let them live as they see fit, advertising for what they're looking for, and leave them be.
originally posted by: odzeandennz
where doe it stops though?