There’s nothing quite like fighting racism by engaging in more racism, is there? In the latest episode of “Woke Discrimination,” we have the Person of Color House, which is an off-campus housing area for students attending U.C. Berkeley.
A photo posted on Reddit displayed the rules around having guests in the house’s common area. Under the section titled “Guests in Common Spaces,” the document reads: “Guests are allowed in common spaces but please be mindful if there are house members in the room beforehand. White guests are not allowed in common spaces (see intro).”
In the document’s introduction, the POC House explains that many of the students residing in the residence moved there “to be able to avoid white violence and presence.” It instructs students that if they are bringing a guest who lacks a sufficient level of melanin, they must announce it in the online chat and notify others “if they are white.”
But that’s not all.
In order to protect these poor, weak, and defenseless minority students, the rules also instruct members to “avoid bringing parents/family members that express bigotry” and point out that “Queer, Black, and Indigenous members should not have to avoid common spaces because of homophobic or racist parents/family members.”
The Person of Color Theme House is “a five-story, 30-room home that can accommodate up to 56 students,” according to The College Fix. Its purpose is to serve “low-income, first generation, immigrant and marginalized students of color.”
This is not the first controversy the house has elicited. A former member wrote a post on Medium in 2020 complaining that the house became known for its “call-out culture” that resulted from “the lack of intersectionality.”
“Several members have been criticized for being white/white passing, aligning themselves with whiteness, or allowing white violence in the house,” the author wrote.
But the plot thickens.
Apparently, the Person of Color Theme House denies having an official discrimination policy. Stephen Ross, cooperative experience manager for the Berkeley Student Cooperative, told The College Fix that “neither the BSC nor the POC house has an official policy” that involves prohibiting white guests from being in common spaces.
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“White people can and do live in POC house, but the focus for POC house is providing a safe and supportive living environment for people of color,” he stressed.
However, Ross did acknowledge that each of the BSC houses, 20 in all, “have their own culture and practices” that evolve over time and that the POC house members work to make sure that “Whiteness” is not “central to the experience for members living in the house.”
Apparently, people of color at the university have been impacted by “racist and discriminatory remarks made by former President Trump,” along with police killings of black men, and also “daily experiences of covert and overt racism.”
“While the members who choose to live in POC house cannot avoid every racist experience, living in POC house gives the members who live there a safe space to process their experiences and feel supported in their living environment,” Ross told The College Fix.
The struggle is real, folks.
These kids experience so much racism that they have to sequester themselves from white folks, most of whom are hopelessly racist, apparently. To them, woke discrimination is preferable to Jim Crow discrimination.
This is an issue I bring up when I discuss how the hard left wants to brainwash black and brown people into becoming hypersensitive, mentally soft individuals who will be ill-equipped to handle life after the university. They want to create an environment for Americans in which we constantly take offense at any perceived slight. It is nothing more than a way to make race relations even more tense and problematic.
I have probably experienced more legitimate racism in my life than these kids ever will. My parents would have seen even more racial bigotry. Their parents would have had it even worse in this regard. This is because America is nowhere near perfect but has made undeniable progress over the years. When I was college age, it would have never occurred to me or other black folks I knew that we would need to separate ourselves from white folks or anyone else of a different ethnicity.
But now, the woke crowd encourages this type of stupidity, which is only making us softer. As with most examples of progressivism, this one will only hurt these “People of Color” far more than it will help them.
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