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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 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".

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