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    Not Racist In white privilege discussion group, white students can’t ask black students questions

    Jennifer Kabbany - The College Fix Editor




    A new student group at Kenyon College in Ohio is called the “Whiteness Group,” and one of the rules of the discussion group is that white students cannot ask students of color questions, according to campus news reports.

    The goal of the new group, run through the private school’s multicultural center, is to “educate students on whiteness, what it means to be white, and ways to deconstruct whiteness to work towards anti-racist actions.”

    That according to its student founder, Juniper Cruz, also a student manager of the center, in an interview with the Kenyon Thrill.

    “I decided to start this group last semester when I got tired of white people who would post these very intellectual and passionate statuses on their social media accounts, but that’s as far as their activism went,” Cruz told the Thrill.

    “… My goal, as I kind of mentioned earlier, is to create a sustainable form of activism that relies on community, education, and white people educating each other, while not relying on people of color to educate them.”

    With that, white students are apparently not allowed to ask students of color questions.

    “Some ground rules at the Snowden Multicultural Center’s Whiteness Group: If you have an unpopular opinion, speak up. No white person can ask a person of color questions; white people must try to answer their questions for themselves. And no spreading rumors about what people say during the meetings,” reports the Kenyon Collegian.

    Cruz, the group’s facilitator, is a self-described transgender Queer Afro-Latinx Muslim. The group has had a couple of meetings so far and Cruz reports it’s going well.

    “White allies have a reputation of talking a lot, putting a lot on social media, but not really doing anything about it,” Cruz told the Collegian. “Not doing much besides default sharing. I’m really pleasantly surprised so many came to take a good hour out of their day to come here.”

    This is not the first time the issue of “whiteness” has been tackled at Kenyon College. Two years ago the “Whiteness Project” documentary was screened there.

    “Being a predominantly white campus, Kenyon has many multicultural programs to include the minorities on campus, yet lacks opportunities to ‘make white people the center of conversation again,'” the Collegian reported at the time.

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    Bring back segregation






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    Quote Originally Posted by PorkChopSandwiches View Post
    Bring back segregation
    kind of reading my mind...was going to say:

    Yes, when trying to bring about racial equality it's always good to dig that moat called SEGREGATION a little deeper

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    Quote Originally Posted by PorkChopSandwiches View Post
    Bring back segregation
    It's already being requested. Black only spaces, black only dorms...
    I wanted to be a Monk, but I never got the chants.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RBP View Post
    It's already being requested. Black only spaces, black only dorms...
    Did they have condition requirements? I mean, do we have to spend a shitload of money on it all, or can it be cheap, rickety crap?


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    Quote Originally Posted by DemonGeminiX View Post
    Did they have condition requirements? I mean, do we have to spend a shitload of money on it all, or can it be cheap, rickety crap?
    Full circle back to the public housing debates from 60 years ago.
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