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posted by martyb on Saturday October 29 2016, @02:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the whatever-happened-to-DEsegregation? dept.

The Washington Times reports a story about protesters on the UC Berkeley campus physically blocking white students from accessing a bridge while police stand by and watch:

Students at the University of California, Berkeley held a day of protest on Friday to demand the creation of additional “safe spaces” for transgender and nonwhite students, during which a human chain was formed on a main campus artery to prevent white students from getting to class.

The demonstrators were caught on video blocking Berkeley’s Sather Gate, holding large banners advocating the creation of physical spaces segregated by race and gender identity, including one that read “Fight 4 Spaces of Color.”

Protesters can be heard shouting “Go around!” to white students who attempt to go through the blockade, while students of color are greeted with calls of “Let him through!”

Students turned away by the mob are later shown filing through trees and ducking under branches in order to cross Strawberry Creek, which runs underneath the bridge.

The protests were a response to a Safe Space being moved from the fifth floor of a building down to the basement.


[Original version of this story had "UCLA"; corrected to: "UC Berkeley" -Ed.]

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Uncle_Al on Saturday October 29 2016, @03:56PM

    by Uncle_Al (1108) on Saturday October 29 2016, @03:56PM (#420138)

    UCLA != UCB , dumbass

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 29 2016, @04:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 29 2016, @04:03PM (#420143)

    I feel unsafe when other posters here are being called dumbasses.

  • (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Saturday October 29 2016, @09:04PM

    by krishnoid (1156) on Saturday October 29 2016, @09:04PM (#420255)

    Now they have to travel, what, ~400 miles *and* go into the basement just to get to the Safe Space? No wonder they're protesting.