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'This isn’t racism': students seeking nonwhite roommate

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>A group of black California college students requested that they only live with people of color in a Facebook post that has since gone viral and sparked a national debate about racism and safe spaces at US universities.

>Three students at Claremont colleges, a consortium of five undergraduate liberal arts schools in southern California, recently posted that they were searching for a fourth roommate in an off-campus house and added “POC only” to the listing, referring to people of color.

>The Claremont Independent, a student magazine, published an article on Tuesday about the housing request and ensuing online debate, with the headline “STUDENTS AT CLAREMONT COLLEGES REFUSE TO LIVE WITH WHITE PEOPLE”. Accompanying the story was a photo of a black man at a water fountain, with a sign reading “FOR COLORED ONLY”.

>The article quickly spread beyond the private college campus near Los Angeles to conservative news outlets and mainstream media organizations across the US, launching heated arguments about the experiences of people of color on predominantly white college campuses and raising questions about whether the “POC only” statement was a form of racism.

>By Friday, students said the controversy had been blown out of proportion, with some defending the rights of the original Facebook posters to live exclusively with people of color.

>“It’s a legitimate request,” said Josue Pasillas, a 21-year-old senior and president of the student senate at Pitzer College. “Students of color should have the right to create spaces where they feel comfortable on campus and off campus. It’s all about living in solidarity with others without the judgment and racism that they face on a daily basis.”

>Pasillas, who is Latino, scoffed at commentators who have presented the situation as a case of “reverse racism” or “racism against white people”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/12/facebook-ad-nonwhite-roommate-claremont-california-college
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>Wanting to live with kobo anyway
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>>66954
Racist as fuck, probably just as sheltered and delusional as the /pol/.
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>>66954
if we get separate bathrooms, is it really so bad? Time to go back to good old fashioned american racism/segregation!
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>>66954
This is pretty common. All my black co-workers socialise with each other before anyone else, always move to sit with each other at meetings etc.

None of them seem racist, but it's odd when all the other races mix equally except for the corner with all the black guys.
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>>66978
I'm going to further a guess as to the upbringing of the corner folks is different from the rest.
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>>66958
Except what's going to end up happening is that "people of color" will get their segregated safe spaces, but white people won't be allowed any such thing. That would be racist. And of course it's only racist when white people do it because only white people can be racist.
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well shit this isnt an unreasonable request. if a mistake was made it was that they didnt move covertly enough
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>>66954
>comfortable
This is the key word, right here. This is what trigger words and all the other nonsense is about; comfort. A right to comfort is being manufactured, though not necessarily for everyone (if you're not comfortable working for certain weddings, too fucking bad for you, homophobe).

Another aspect is the shit from individual -isms to institutional -isms. To some point that makes sense, because it's hard to be overtly racist these days unless your name ends in rump and there are still social constructs that shut out people who aren't WASP males, but it's being used to claim that the ONLY problem is institutional -isms, and therefore individual -isms like what these assholes are doing don't exist. Unless they're the targets, of course.
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>>66978
Gathering and making black communities always has been a been a big part of African American culture. Historically is was much more relevant way to fight oppression, be it externally through civil rights, or internally through gathering like church where you can just feel at ease. A lot of that has carried over to present day. I spent 3rd grade and up in a school that was extremely diverse. Perhaps 60 percent was white and the rest various minorities, but even then there were very few black people. Around this time usually your parents start teaching you about black history which can at times make you feel pretty shitty. I would say I was an extreme case with a good amount of my lack of confidence originating from other issues in my life or even just puberty, but there be times where I would just be sad that I was born black in a "world that hates me". If it weren't for the BBQ's, family gathering and various other black community events I started going a bit later I could've been a bit worse off mentally. If I had been in an area with more black people Im sure I would've been a bit better.

Anyway this is just my two cents from my own experiences from my own little southern California community. I can't really comment much on other parts of the country but I feel generally its the same. Its just a matter of comfort. The community is safe, so if that's what you are used to and that's what you grew up with, your probably going to stick to it. This can be good but also a bit counterproductive in cases such as this where a preference is so clearly stated. I personally don't agree with it but can understand it. Usually though, things aren't so exclusive. There are always several non-blacks at the events I went to and the most exclusiveness I've seen is some people being pretty cliquey. For this case though, Im willing to bet if someone that wasn't black came to them as said hey, I really need a place to stay, they would consider it.
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>>66956
>Enlightened_superior_gentleman.png
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>>66954
>reverse racism
It's not reverse racism, it's normal racism, just against another kind of people.
Yeah, of course it's racism, but it's an exceptable kind, any person should have a choice in who he deals with, whether that means a No Gays sign on a cake shop, a No Whites ad for roommates, or a No Women club.
As long as the media isn't hypocritical, it's fine.
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>>66954
this would only be an issue if the landlord posted that ad, right? even so, this kind of thing literally happens all the time in those ads
>women only
>art majors only
>must be able to do x
>no kids
>no pets
>single men only

i guess all of the years of screaming about racism has fooled white people into thinking that screaming about racism is cool/hip/funky fresh/etc.
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>>66978
It's just cultural differences.
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>>66956
I still don't understand why SJWs and the alt-right don't team up in their fight for segregation
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>>66954
Litmus test: Is it racist if it's the other way around?

>Three white dudes looking for another white dude to brodown - non POC only.

How would this be perceived in the media? How would it be perceived by POC? What would the reaction be?
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>>67064
It's a racebait clickbait piece. How do you think?
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>>67066

The entire sphere of newsmedia in the U.S. is racebait/clickbait.
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>>67064
Yes, the media would think it racist if they caught hold of it.
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>>66954
100 years ago it was practically legal to kill people of color and keep them segregated. Now they learned to do it themselves.
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>>67063
For or against?
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>martin luther king DIES to ensure blacks a non segregated sciety
>after his death, blacks decide nah, we want segregation back

lol, if MLK was alive today he would take off his belt, go to the ghetto and just start going to town on every black person he seen.
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>>67063
Because SJWs don't want segregation. They want 'safe spaces', which is segregation on their own terms. They want the equivalent of private golf courses where the only members happen to be white people, but they don't even have the courtesy to put on a front.
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>>67136
Martin Luther King Speech - The Boondocks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5FR1LGsT7E
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>>67136
I know you're memeing, but MLK isn't our god you faggot. It's okay to disagree with him.
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>>67064
If the whites were at an HBCU then no, it would not be racist.

Being black in a sea full of white people - it's understandable completely to want to be around other black people.
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>>67134
For, that's the irony. SJWs like the one in the OP want a return to segregation. /pol/ wants the same thing. So why don't they work together to create white-only and black-only apartments, schools, etc?
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>>66954
Nothing wrong with whites requesting whites, then is there?
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So it's finally gone full circle and now they want segregation?

I thought that was the issue for decades?

Have I been slipped crazy pills because this shits driving me up a wall with how backwards it's gotten.
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>>67167
Terrible bait.
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>>66997
>>67058

I understand the reasoning behind being comfortable with what your used to, it's safer and the human brain wants safety. It's a major factor in why the world is so fucked up because even down to children on the playground groups are formed based on who's different.

That being said none of them are from all black communities.
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>>67064
The cable news agencies would have a stroke from joy if that story dropped these days. Nothing gets people fired up like white guys being racist.
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>>67211
Wasn't Malcom X in favor of segregation?
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I'm white and I would never room with three blacks.

I expect them to stink, be obnoxious, unwilling or unable to help out around the house or pay rent, I expect them to both break and steal my shit, I expect them to be potentially violent, potential criminals.

And I expect them to be extremely racist against me.

Does this sound like the pot calling the kettle black? Well if you open your eyes and take a look, you'll notice both the pot and the kettle ARE, in fact, black.

Black people are racist against me, and I'm racist against them right back, and that's OKAY.

It's okay to be racist. It's a survival trait.
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>>67211
>>67226
separation.
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>"Students of color should have the right to create spaces where they feel comfortable on campus and off campus. It’s all about living in solidarity with others without the judgment and racism that they face on a daily basis"
>It’s all about living in solidarity with others
And yet people went nuclear when it came out that Donal Stirling use to try and keep his apartment buildings white-only, similar to when Hulk Hogan got pissed his daughter was dating a black guy, only now it's used by the oppressed under the guise of "hey, we get shit on, ergo we need to feel safe by excluding people based on stereotypes stemming from the color of their skin"

This entire PC thing has somehow perfectly inverted itself, and no one has blinked an eye, it's like a fucking South Park episode, yet no one has realized the irony
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>>66990
The whole country is a white man's safe space basically, which is why you dont need designated bonus spaces. No need to build a pool to on the beach.
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>>67211
segregation would be fine now, nobody gave a shit about trivial shit like using different water fountains. The "separate" part of "separate but equal" wasn't the problem, it was the "equal" part.
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>>67166
maybe he should be

maybe you woouldnt riot in black majority communities, burning and looting black owned stores and complaining about how its whities fault if you listened to him
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>>67266
>No need to build a pool to on the beach
Beachside resorts pretty much always have pools.
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>>67266
>The whole country is a white man's safe space
>Milwaukee
here's your (you)
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>>66954
Aahhh america always in the van guard of stupidity. Couldn't happen to a nicer 'country' *cough*
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>>67281
yeah, nice country but rotten people.
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>>67281
>>67283
Oh fuck of, you limey assholes.
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>>66954
did anyone tell him about Brown v. Board of Education?
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>>67285
It's true though.

Sad for you but true.
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>>67213
Ah the old, "if I don't agree - it's bait" reply.
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>>67276
Friendly reminder that what some people of a certain socio-economic status do does not reflect an entire race, my fellow memer.
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>>67167
If you don't want to go to a school full of a specific race then don't go.
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>>67326
No, it's bait if it's bait.
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>>66954
And you better do what the nigger demands or else you're a rassis. UsAfrica aka jew owned niggerology... Smh.. Help them Putin because they don't know any better
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>>66997
Dumb nigger poster.
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>>66954
I'm okay with this, ONLY if everyone else can do the same. So if three white people post that they only want a white roommate then it better be ok.
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>>67610
Tip: it will never be
A couple roomies and I went looking for a 4th and one of the applicants was a black dude. Not a hoodrat, somebody who looked like that OP pic. We eventually turned him down (the landlord was fighting tooth and nail just to get that room FILLED), and good lord we must have had a week's worth of angry voicemail. He called us racists, but we turned him down because he was acting really creepy to the female roommate. It was like he wanted us guys to leave so he could bend her over or something.
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>>67610
It is. They're called fraternities. Black frats, white frats, asian frats... college is sorta like prison, you learn to stick with your own.
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>>66954
debate my ass
nigs gonna nig
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>>67628

Yeah, our fraternities always had to be conscious of the fact that we were almost all white, in spite of the campus being far more diverse.

That said, Asians don't usually want to join frats, and blacks have their own frats or they tend to coalesce in one (partly because there's so few). Even Jews have their own frats -- in fact the frat on my campus with Jewish National had exactly one Jew, while a non-denominational frat on my campus had exactly one non-Jew. People naturally coalesce in that way I guess.
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>>67611
What a cock block
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>>66954
Isn't the fucking problem here that there is a bold assumption that skin is all that matters? I mean, shouldn't the ad have gone on to say POC and down with anything we say? who's to say or assume that comfort will be achieved solely by having the same shade? Serve them right maybe if they get a color match but soon decide it's a 'Tom' when it isn't down with their fucking agenda.
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>>66954

yeah it is, but I mean no sense in making him have a non-black roommate. do you want to live with the fucker knowing that he hates you for not being black?
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>>67266

Makes absolutely no sense, the fact that the U.S. is 40% non-white proves you wrong
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>>66954
>reverse racism isn't real nmhyyyahhh
yea it's just racism... yano... hating someone for their race.
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>>67691
Actually, it's probably less than that, considering they often count Hispanics and arabs as white.
Also, considering a good amount of white people, with nearly no non-whites, are spread out in the country, in places never reported on, and this story takes place somewhere heavily populated, the whites are even further diminished.
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>>66958
Blacks already self segregate. Anyone who is successful and says "eh it's not so bad" is called an Uncle Tom or a traitor
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>>67281
>>67283
>Every American is the same
Kill yourselves.
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>>67766 You first !!!
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>i wouldn't want to live with the niggers anyways
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>>67764
>self segregate themselves

I agree 100 percent. My wife is 100% black but is successful and only dates white men. She had a full scholarship to college, made money off of scholarships and grants.

Her family calls her an Uncle Tom for being with me, and they will give money to all of her brothers and sister who are in and out of jail. They would never help us if we needed it though, luckily we never have needed it
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>>67920
To add to this.

>I was 14 YO
>living with my dad would really didn't make much money, especially the area we had lived in, in Florida where taxes and cost of living is high.
>we live in the hood, my family is the ONLY white family in the entire apartment complex of about 120 apartments.
>just moved to Florida and didn't understand how bad the area was until we moved in
>once we moved in is when we realized we were the only whites, not that we are racist it's just uncomfortable to be singled out
>after a month of living there the entire hood knew who we were, what we drove, what times my parents went to work.
>they hated us, all because we were white.
>reverse racism is very real, living in that apartment for 6 months showed us how racist blacks are towards whites
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>>67926
Cont? I can share some of my experiences there
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>>67929
Sure.
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I said it before and every day i see more evidence that blacks just wanna go back to jim crowe days. It is seriously going full circle at this point. What's next? How about colored-only bathrooms, buses and drinking fountains? Hmm....i feel like this was already a thing about 70 years ago.

Not that I am complaining. I will enjoy living in my whites only neighborhood and using my whites only bathrooms and sending my kids to whites only schools. ;) Works for me.
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>>67134
For, obviously
The horseshoe is real
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>>67920
>My wife is 100% black but is successful and only dates white men
A black cuck?
A true unicorn
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>>68024
You aren't a cuck for dating outside of the race. Otherwise Othello would have been a cuck prior to the whole scheme, and Iago wouldn't have needed to make him look like one.
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>>67929
Do eet
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>>67920
You're a disgrace to your race.
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>>67766
You've been killing your own selves for years now... We just have to wait. Blm, this transgender/gay promoting bs agenda . as an European, when push comes to shove I'll stand with Putin . you ppl and your ziokike owners really have to go...
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>>66954
Now explicitly this is wrong..but to be honest, as a black university student who was looking for roommates to sublet for my apartment full of mostly Africans, every random white person I looked to the fill the room ended up never calling me back. My roommates were low key relieved when they realized the person who finally took the room was African.The funny thing is I only needed them to fill the room for the summer. Implicitly this happens, mostly likely both ways(blacks and whites) no matter how much we try and act like it doesn't. We're all just good at hiding it.
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>>68050
K.
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>>67920
Kys
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The fuck happened to this thread?
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>>68558
I think the coon now wants a school just dedicated to niggers and niggerology teachings. And, as good jew owned cucks, you USA irrelevants obliged.
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Only white people can be racist.


Delete this.
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>>66956
As a black guy, I can't stand these double standards. If a white person did it, it would be seen as racist, but if a black person does it it's okay. I hope they turn his retarded request down.
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>>67136
He should.
>>67166
I know he isn't god, but he had a decent message about judging based on character and not race.
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>>68665
This.
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>>68665
word
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>>66954
Who cares? normalize this so I can say I want to live in a whites only neighborhood.
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>>66954
If you want safe spaces away from white people then what the fuck are you doing in a white country?
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>>68683
fuck off
>>68682
this again
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Isn't this basically reverse-segregation?
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>safe space

But then you're generalizing that white people are racist and / or aggressive by their nature. That kind of assumption fits the very definition of racism, and is exactly the same kind of reasoning that groups like skinheads use. Two wrongs don't make a right.

People need to stop thinking in exclusionary terms. There shouldn't be any "us" or "them" in our society. We're all people, we're all in this world together, and we may as well try to benefit each other in the collective interest of our survival. Why does there need to be anymore to it than that?
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>>66978
That's fine because there are no laws governing social interaction. However there are laws forbidding housing discrimination by race, just putting up a classified like this is illegal.
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Victims repeat the abuse. This is wrong.
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>>68797
No it's just regular segregation
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>>68683
go back to /pol/ you fucking faggot.
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>this thread

Yeah not surprised by this hipocricy anymore. Welcome to 2016 everyone. I'm glad I go to a state uni in the middle of nowhere.

I honestly wonder though, how far will these double standards go? How far will liberals defend this? How much farther can you go with this shit anyways? This is blatantly racist and hypocritical, but they just can't see it.

MLK and the civil rights movement fought for equality, this is pushing the shit that they were fighting. These kids would have a lot in common with those who opposed the civil rights movement of the 1960's.
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>>68024
>Black cuck

That's not a cuck you fucking retard. Why do so many /pol/fags toss this word around like it's the new "faggot".
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>>68867
>Why do so many /pol/fags toss this word around like it's the new "faggot".
Because it is. Get with the time gramps
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this is win. whites and blacks dont need one another.
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>>66990
fucking somebody said it. shit.
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That's not a safe space, it's segregation. For all that mlk stood for and these new age afro Americans just want to go back to the 50s. Why? Cuz whitey?
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>>67926
>reverse racism is real

No it isn't, racism comes from people of any color, there is no reverse racism only racism
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>>67926
Did you offer them a banana?
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>>68721
The Claremont colleges are in Iceland?
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>>67063
They did, a couple times in history

Nation of Islam, America Branch teamed up with American Nazi Party because they both believed in separate nations for separate colors

Back to Africa Movement after the Civil War was also supported by both blacks who wanted a fresh start in their ancestral homeland and whites who just wanted blacks to leave.
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>>68665
*"This" intensifies*
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>>67064
Is it sexist when someone says they're only interested in having female roommates?
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>>67280
>a general claim is absolutely false because I found one exception to it
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>>66997
>Gathering and making white communities always has been a been a big part of European American culture. Historically is was much more relevant way to fight crime and loss of identity, be it externally through zoning laws or internally through gathering like church where you can just feel at ease. A lot of that has carried been lost in this present day due to forced integration. I spent 3rd grade and up in a school that was extremely diverse. Perhaps 60 percent was hispanic and the rest various minorities, but even then there were very few black people. Around this time usually your teachers start teaching you about black history which can at times make you feel pretty shitty.

>blah blah blah, half of the music on the radio is black, there are black actors and athletes everywhere, affirmative action, but I just can't get a break.
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>>68665
Thanks
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