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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: 2) by cubancigar11 on Saturday October 29 2016, @08:20PM

    by cubancigar11 (330) on Saturday October 29 2016, @08:20PM (#420236) Homepage Journal

    People like you are the problem. For the all the moral high ground you take within your brackets, you show it very clearly outside.

    is it media pandering to create conflict? White people shocked that the black power movement is experiencing a revival? Or is it just racists jumping on every sight of black people doing something slightly objectionable so they can point fingers?

    Yeah it must be somehow related to something white people are doing. Or racists are doing to black people. Isn't it? It could definitely NOT be related to conscious decision to push liberal feminist pc culture through student politics. Hey hey - it can happen all over the world but when it happens in America, it has to be somehow related to white people.

    I was about to think you are clueless, but you are willful ignorant, which is worse. The nonsense you see now has been going on for close to 5 years now. Mainstream media is reporting it sees a market of conservatism in rise of Trump. That's all.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by t-3 on Sunday October 30 2016, @01:30AM

    by t-3 (4907) on Sunday October 30 2016, @01:30AM (#420401)

    5 years? You need to pull your head out the sand. This has been going on for nearly 150 years, and in reality even before that. Black militism has never died, because black people have never had a fair shake; which makes my point for me: WHY is this getting media attention? It's about causing this "rise of conservativism" (which is simply the showing of racism rather than the rise of anything, because none of these people woke up and decided they didn't like black people, they've felt that way for a long time). Somebody wants conflict, but who is it? What are the motives of the people who push this divisive and mostly irrelevant stuff to the surface? Is it a liberal agenda, as you say? Or is it bread and circus - keeping everyone from or at the bottom at each others' throats so they don't look up? Watch the video: these are white children protesting, with one or two blacks in there. But the media has hyped it as black people stopping whites from crossing the bridge. It's about gay people more than blacks, but the media spins it in a certain way.. If marketing to conservatives was the plan, why introduce racial tension when many black and hispanic voters are extremely conservative?

    • (Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Sunday October 30 2016, @06:52AM

      by cubancigar11 (330) on Sunday October 30 2016, @06:52AM (#420448) Homepage Journal

      I definitely don't think this is black people protesting. I am not interested in the color of protesters, I am interested in the politics being played out here which is grandiose victimization of students and bullying of university administration by student unions under protection of federal government using its funding. And this has been going on from last 5 years indeed with no importance being given be media because it is aligned with federal government's policies. Look it up, I am not talking about black vs. white struggle, I am talking about use of students by so called progressives.

      I am unable to find the link right now, but there was a conscious decision among humanities (philosophy and sociology) in late 1970s that academia has always done theoretical research and has stayed away from directly getting involved in governance and that there is no reason for academia to not directly be an agent of change. The current climate in universities is the direct result of what has been cooking for last 40-50 years, but has only started in last 5 years by rise of "alt-right" and "progressives".