{"id":70492,"date":"2017-02-23T09:38:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T14:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=70492"},"modified":"2017-02-23T09:38:52","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T14:38:52","slug":"umich-no-whites-allowed-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70492","title":{"rendered":"UMich; No-whites-allowed space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-70493 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/UMICHBBUM-370x242-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/UMICHBBUM-370x242-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/UMICHBBUM-370x242.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A student activist group at the University of Michigan is demanding campus officials provide them with \u201ca permanent designated space on central campus for Black students and students of color to organize and do social justice work.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Uh-huh.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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 in the center of campus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>$10,000,000 in Public funds to promote segregation in a Public Institution.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In their demands, students explain why the new black student center is not enough, \u201cbecause we want a space solely dedicated to community organizing and social justice work specifically for people of color.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmmm.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This list of demands also call for more support for \u201cmarginalized\u201d students \u201cwhen oppressive attacks occur,\u201d increasing the affirmative action of \u201cBlack, Arab, and other PoC\u201d in tenured faculty, more readily alerting students on campus of \u201cbias incidents,\u201d and offering more financial aid for those of lower socioeconomic status.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOur president has blatantly ignored us and it is time for us to speak up. We have been told that our demands are \u2018rude,\u2019\u201d the group states on Facebook in announcing its petition. \u201cWe are calling on someone to care about students\u2019 concerns and to lead us with integrity and help us fight against the oppression and hateful acts that try to destroy us and our community.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, upheld the ban on affirmative action for public institutions. Perhaps the snowflakes should spend more time in the classroom and less time organizing and doing social work on the tax payers dime.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/post\/31322\/\" target=\"_blank\">UMich students demand no-whites-allowed space to plot \u2018social justice\u2019 activism <\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This is not an isolated incident.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/post\/25748\/\" target=\"_blank\">Black students demand segregated spaces from white students <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A student activist group at the University of Michigan is demanding campus officials provide them with &hellip; <a title=\"UMich; No-whites-allowed space\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70492\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UMich; No-whites-allowed space<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":659,"featured_media":70494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/659"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}