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Scripps College Pool Party Desegregated
2018-04-14
[Claremont Independent] After the Independent reported that event organizers segregated tonight’s pool party at Scripps College, barring white students from attending, the organizers changed their event’s description to allow all students regardless of race at the Claremont Colleges‐a consortium consisting of Scripps College, Pomona College, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont McKenna College, and Pitzer College‐to attend the pool party hosted at the college’s Sallie Tiernan Field House.

In a previous version of the Facebook event description, the organizers made it clear that the pool party was open only to students who identified as persons of color (POC):

"This event is only to 5C [Claremont Colleges] students identifying as POC.

Original Announcement and context found at the 'College Fix.'
Posted by:Besoeker

#11  Minor detail not mentioned by the college president? (found on Twitchy):

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VI states, “Schools and colleges that receive federal funds must operate without discriminating when it comes to race, color, and national origin.”
Posted by: JHH   2018-04-14 17:19  

#10  "“Most POCs at any of the Claremont Colleges (which are historically PWIs (Predominantly White Institutions)) interact and enjoy interacting with people of all races (obviously including white people), but sometimes it’s nice to have a time to be with people who identify in the same or similar way that you do,” the student said."

You mean like in the workplace? The front of the bus?

Millennials, apparently, look to history as a reparaism punch-list rather than understanding how society's change.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources   2018-04-14 16:46  

#9  It's all just a bit redundant and tiring in my umble opinion.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-04-14 12:38  

#8  Olde Southern (Democrat) KKK members would applaud

They love when a plan comes together?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-04-14 12:27  

#7  Black Culture: Abortions killing black babies, black men killing other black men, single moms in poverty, rap/hiphop music with misogynist and cop-hating lyrics, drugs, crime and incarceration. And they blame Whitey and demand segregation.

Olde Southern (Democrat) KKK members would applaud
Posted by: Frank G   2018-04-14 12:24  

#6  the NAACP could not be reached for comment.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-04-14 12:18  

#5  but stop trying to pretend there wasn't real racism against Blacks that used the word.

A common debating technique nowadays is to hallucinate that your opponent said something and then argue against that. This is a fine example.
Posted by: SteveS   2018-04-14 12:00  

#4  And now they are embracing it. Instead of 'Colored' they use 'People of Color'. In the end they mean the same thing. People of a particular color.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2018-04-14 11:52  

#3  Scooter, you know perfectly well the label "colored" was used to discriminate against Blacks.

I don't like the reverse racism, but stop trying to pretend there wasn't real racism against Blacks that used the word.
Posted by: Snoluting Phomoth8901   2018-04-14 11:32  

#2  "People of color." LOL. Don't they understand that white is a color? Actually, based on luminosity, white is ALL the colors.
Posted by: Scooter McGruder   2018-04-14 10:48  

#1  Scripps College President Lara Tiedens sent out the following email to students this afternoon:
“The pool party has been postponed due to concerns about student safety in the wake of numerous phone calls and emails from the public expressing hostility and threatening physical violence.”


Postponed due to 'safety' issues and not because racial segregation is an un-American idea that should have been stomped out in the '70s.

Does this mean race is no longer simply a social construct and is back to being a thing again? It's hard keep up. Maybe I need a safe space to get away from all these whiny-ass self-identified POCs.

Also, is 'POC' pronounced like pock, poke or pook?
Posted by: SteveS   2018-04-14 10:40  

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