School brings back segregation

[madoka]

Congrats PC idiots. You've managed to bring back something that the Civil Rights Movement fought decades to end.

http://college.usatoday.com/2016/08/08/chicago-college-class-black-students-only/

Race isn’t a typical prerequisite to taking a college course, but it will be this fall at a community college near Chicago.

For the first time in its history, Moraine Valley Community College is earmarking two sections of its College 101 course exclusively for black students, spokeswoman Jessica Crotty told the Chicago Tribune.

 

[master_shake_]

well at least since some of their "demands" were met they'll let some of the hostages go.

 

[OutHouse]

wow thats disgraceful.

 

[Victorian Gray]

Seems like this is the important part of the article linked:

"And Margaret Lehner, the college’s vice president for institutional advancement, agrees. She told Inside Higher Ed that limiting the students in the course makes for a more customized class.

“This is not something new for us. We’ve done (courses for) veterans, we’ve done women, we have done Hispanics,” Lehner said. “We find that these particular courses with these particular groups with our mentoring and peer support help them to be more successful than they would be if they did not have this particular experience.”

 

[HamburgerBoy]

^ So if I'm more successful in a class that only has whites (Asians too, being honorary Aryans and all), is that cool?

 

[MixMasterTang]

The outrage!

 

[umbrella39]

Imagine the odds of a racially motivated thread being posted by the OP...

 

[tcsenter]

Unlike with classes for veterans or older people, courses limited by race/ethnicity have tended to teach "alternative" ethno-centric histories and narratives that are at odds with generally accepted and peer reviewed (GAPR) history, zany counter-productive things like HIV was 'invented' to kill blacks (it wasn't), Margaret Sanger wanted to exterminate blacks (she didn't), crack cocaine was 'invented' to destroy the black community (it wasn't), sentencing disparities for crack cocaine were intentionally racist (they weren't), blacks are the "real" Jews or Hebrews of the Bible (and the 'white' peoples who we call Jews today are imposters who whitewashed ALL of GAPR history), and a whole lotta other fringe nutwhack beliefs that are already disturbingly common among black communities.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

sentencing disparities for crack cocaine were intentionally racist (they weren't)

They weren't?

 

[tcsenter]

They weren't?

Am I supposed to repeat myself?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Am I supposed to repeat myself?

Was it explained why politicians preferred said sentencing disparity? I'm assuming they didn't do it just because they felt like it.

 

[woolfe9998]

Was it explained why politicians preferred said sentencing disparity? I'm assuming they didn't do it just because they felt like it.

There's some evidence that crack is more dependency forming than powder. But the sentencing disparity at the federal level was literally 100:1, 100 grams of powder = 1 gram of crack for sentencing purposes. A piece of legislation passed in 2010 has changed this to a mere 18:1 discrepancy.

Clearly no politician has ever admitted to discriminatory intent. No one ever does. The intent is inferred from the magnitude of the sentencing disparity. Perhaps there are other reasons, but it's specious to assert with apparent certainty that there was no discriminatory intent as tcsenter is doing here.

 

[tcsenter]

Communities were not coming unhinged from their powder cocaine, could remain largely functional and continued to go to work every day, were not murdering each other in turf wars, abandoning their families, grossly neglecting their children, robbing people and stealing everything not bolted down, turning to prostitution, overwhelming the ERs, in pursuit or support of their powder cocaine addiction. Crack did lead to those things within many urban centers. It was a crisis and blacks themselves demanded tougher enforcement, tougher sentencing for dealers and traffickers.

 

[Jaskalas]

Students feel comfortable and are more likely to open up because they’re with other students who are like them.”

Oh there it is. The "safe space" reasoning.
Apparently "race relations" are so bad that different races cannot be in the same room together?
Do people here think it's true, or support racial segregation?

On its own it might have a little bit of merit, but given the US historical context... I'm mighty uncomfortable with it.

 

[wetech]

Seems like this is the important part of the article linked:

"And Margaret Lehner, the college’s vice president for institutional advancement, agrees. She told Inside Higher Ed that limiting the students in the course makes for a more customized class.

“This is not something new for us. We’ve done (courses for) veterans, we’ve done women, we have done Hispanics,” Lehner said. “We find that these particular courses with these particular groups with our mentoring and peer support help them to be more successful than they would be if they did not have this particular experience.”

"We've been segregating students forever"

 

[Iron Woode]

I think some people here are just looking for something to be outraged over, no matter how petty it is.

This is not segregation. It would be if blacks were not allowed to go to any other school.

This is nothing new as there are niche schools everywhere; deaf, blind, christian, jew, muslim, arts, sciences, trades, etc....

 

[brycejones]

Posting in a madoka thread

 

[madoka]

Imagine the odds of a racially motivated thread being posted by the OP...

So complaining about racial segregation is somehow now wrong in your book? Also, the odds are quite low if you checked my posting history and had a working brain.

Posting in a madoka thread

I've shown you up so many times now that this is all you're reduced to now? Hilarious.

 

[brycejones]

I've shown you up so many times now that this is all you're reduced to now? Hilarious.

You're right, you think you've shown anyone up is hilarious. Congrats you're as a brilliant as m1980.