UMich students demand no-whites-allowed space to plot ‘social justice’ activism

[Dashinka 25,855]

 

 

A student activist group at the University of Michigan is demanding campus officials provide them with “a permanent designated space on central campus for Black students and students of color to organize and do social justice work.”

 

The demand is one of several lodged by “Students4Justice,” who this month ratcheted up campus demonstrations to pressure administrators to cave, complaining in a newly launched petition that President Mark Schlissel has snubbed their demands.

The clamor for a segregated space for students of color to organize social justice efforts comes even as the public university builds a $10 million center for black students and others in the center of campus.

The new center is considered a “multicultural” one open to all students, but is under construction at the behest of a student group called Being Black at the University of Michigan, whose members complained that black students are marginalized because the original multicultural center they use is located on the outskirts of campus.

In their demands, students explain why the new multicultural student center is not enough, “because we want a space solely dedicated to community organizing and social justice work specifically for people of color.”

“We want documentation of past, current, and future student activism and this should be a permanent space that is staffed, and has resources for students to organize and share resources,” the demand letter states.

Leaders of “Students4Justice” did not respond to requests from The College Fix seeking comment. Campus spokesman Rick Fitzgerald told The Fix that at “this point, our colleagues in Student Life have been working with the Students4Justice leaders to better understand their concerns. This is our normal process.”

http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/31322/

 

[ready4ONE 5,400]

No axe to grind at thecollegefix.com! Seriously though if you find a website that slanted, what makes you think any given hit piece is going to play well on this forum?

 

Silly article, sillier website.

[Jacque67 7,328]

1 hour ago, ready4ONE said:

No axe to grind at thecollegefix.com! Seriously though if you find a website that slanted, what makes you think any given hit piece is going to play well on this forum?

 

Silly article, sillier website.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-23/umich-students-demand-no-whites-allowed-safe-space-plot-social-justice-activism

 

lots of sites are picking up on this!!!!

shaking in my boots!!!! 

#scarystudents!!!!

 

eta it will play well to a certain sector;)

Edited February 24, 2017 by Jacque67

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

If you can't defend the idea attack the source . MDL if nothing else is predictable. 

[Dashinka 25,855]

2 hours ago, ready4ONE said:

No axe to grind at thecollegefix.com! Seriously though if you find a website that slanted, what makes you think any given hit piece is going to play well on this forum?

 

Silly article, sillier website.

So can you refute the story?  Here is a similar story from a local news source.

 

http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/237746032-story

[smilesammich 10,727]

4 hours ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

If you can't defend the idea attack the source . MDL if nothing else is predictable. 

i choose, blame trump. 

 

trump seems to be okay with racial segregation for brainstorming attacks for his brand of regressive injustice, lookit how white his white house is. you guys must be outraged at the lack of diversity and comfy safe space for rich white men he's created with his administration..

[CaliCat 3,957]

4 hours ago, Bill & Katya said:

So can you refute the story?  Here is a similar story from a local news source.

 

http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/237746032-story

 

Fox news is saying that your original post was misleading.

 

"We never said people of color only," said student Victoria Johnson. "We just said a place for us to organize."

 

 

[bcking 3,157]

4 hours ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

If you can't defend the idea attack the source.

You mean like complaining that negative press is "fake news"? Maybe the liberals here are learning from our dear President.

 

EDIT:

To actually comment on the article though - I would need to actually read more about what the group's specific concerns are to completely judge (I agree with others that the source of the article isn't exactly unbiased), but in general I would agree that it seems a little extreme to demand a completely separate segregated space. The multicultural center they are building sounds quite nice. 

Edited February 24, 2017 by bcking

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[ready4ONE 5,400]

9 hours ago, Bill & Katya said:

So can you refute the story?  Here is a similar story from a local news source.

 

http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/237746032-story

I would have to be interested enough to do some research. However the website itself clearly shows so much bias it would be simply a waste of time. I realize that there is a segment of the population that gobbles up this kind of stuff like fine wine but clearly there is zero balance and all the front page stories are geared towards a select audience. You can surely agree with that assessment?

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17 minutes ago, ready4ONE said:

I would have to be interested enough to do some research. However the website itself clearly shows so much bias it would be simply a waste of time. I realize that there is a segment of the population that gobbles up this kind of stuff like fine wine but clearly there is zero balance and all the front page stories are geared towards a select audience. You can surely agree with that assessment?

Exactly

 

#BLM

[Dashinka 25,855]

7 hours ago, CaliCat said:

 

Fox news is saying that your original post was misleading.

 

"We never said people of color only," said student Victoria Johnson. "We just said a place for us to organize."

 

 

Fox News?  I didn't think Fox News was on the list of approved "progressive" news providers?

[CaliCat 3,957]

1 hour ago, Bill & Katya said:

Fox News?  I didn't think Fox News was on the list of approved "progressive" news providers?

 

 

It's your link and they are saying that your original post was misleading.

 

 

[Dashinka 25,855]

On 2/24/2017 at 5:58 PM, CaliCat said:

 

 

It's your link and they are saying that your original post was misleading.

 

 

The story also says "The group Students 4 Justice at the University of Michigan have set up two online petitions including one that calls for a designated space on campus for students of color to meet and organize."  So which one is it?  Do they want a segregated safe space for POC, or a place for all students?

[Dashinka 25,855]

1 minute ago, Bill & Katya said:

The story also says "The group Students 4 Justice at the University of Michigan have set up two online petitions including one that calls for a designated space on campus for students of color to meet and organize."  So which one is it?  Do they want a segregated safe space for POC, or a place for all students?  The other issue I have is the following statement "The grass roots organization says it wants have an activist center where students can organize, supported and funded by the school."  Why should the school be responsible for funding this?  I am sure students can come up with many safe spaces to organize any protests that don't require taxpayer money.