Brown University’s “Center for Students of Color” hosted simultaneous “community care conversations” July 11 to “reflect, mourn the loss of life, and engage in self-care.” One was slated for “anyone who identifies as a person of color,” while the other was for everyone else,
according to the Ivy League group’s Facebook page.
Similarly, UW-Madison’s Multicultural Student Center held meetings separated by race July 11. “The center held two distinct sets of ‘processing’ meet-ups. First, two ‘processing circles,’ one for white staff and another for non-white staff, were held in the morning, followed by racially separated ‘processing meet-ups’ for students in the evening,” the Daily Caller
reported.
Likewise, in February, a “Concerned Town Hall” meeting was
advertised to “black students and students of color” at the University of Missouri. White reporters who attended were asked to leave. Some did.
Social gatherings on various campuses have also been segregated by race in recent times.
As part of the University of New Mexico’s sex week events last fall, a “decolonized sex”
workshop only permitted entrance to “self-identified women of color, including queer and trans,”
according to the event’s Facebook page.
Also last fall, students at some of the Claremont Colleges held several gatherings meant only for students-of-color, including a “Hurting and Healing” art show, as well as a safe place event for “healing” and “self-preservation,” the Claremont Independent
reported.
My irony detector just exploded.