This month and next dozens of universities across the nation, from private top-tier schools to public state institutions, will host segregated graduation ceremonies and celebrations for their black graduates.
These supplementary ceremonies are voluntary and are offered in addition to the universities’ regular graduations. Sometimes they’re co-hosted by black campus resource centers and various academic departments. They serve to give extra honors and recognition to black students earning their degrees.
Gov. George Wallace would be proud.
More than 75 universities now host blacks-only graduation ceremonies | The College Fix
It isn't the universities who are initiating this, but the students themselves. It says so in your links within your right-wing student rag. What is the purpose of this thread?
You find self segregation to be acceptable? What if whites demanded it?
Jews, Chinese any ethnic group you care to mention self-segregates. Why do you find it a problem if they do not?
1. Why do you, almost without exception, cite only far/alt right sources? My guess is because no honest or fair minded organization promulgates the type of “information” that tickles your fancy.Gov. George Wallace would be proud.
More than 75 universities now host blacks-only graduation ceremonies | The College Fix
It isn't the universities who are initiating this, but the students themselves. It says so in your links within your right-wing student rag. What is the purpose of this thread?
My guess is to stoke bias and division.It isn't the universities who are initiating this, but the students themselves. It says so in your links within your right-wing student rag. What is the purpose of this thread?
1. Why do you, almost without exception, cite only far/alt right sources? My guess is because no honest or fair minded organization promulgates the type of “information” that tickles your fancy.
2. If there was a Hell, George Wallace would be there stitching together white sheets.
My guess is to stoke bias and division.
Jews, Chinese, etc., are having separate graduation ceremonies now? When did this start?
What do you think would happen if a white student insisted on graduating with the blacks? What would happen if the whites insisted on having a graduation ceremony to themselves?
My guess is to stoke bias and division.
You’re asserting that these separate ceremonies are held to stoke bias and division?What else is having racial segregation supposed to accomplish?
You’re asserting that these separate ceremonies are held to stoke bias and division?
* Read post #11.
Gov. George Wallace would be proud.
More than 75 universities now host blacks-only graduation ceremonies | The College Fix
It's classic right-wing projection. Because the far-right are supporters of racism and enthusiastic racists for which they get called all the time, anything-even something as innocent as a student celebration-they feebly label as racist in an attempt at defence and deflection. It's so transparent it's laughable-no different from the far-right calling Nazism a socialist movement!
I don’t doubt the ceremonies are happening, I disdain those who attempt to twist/distort them into divisive commentary.Do you doubt the fact that these segregated ceremonies are taking place? Perhaps you feel that a proper news source would suppress this news. If so, that is totalitarian, Maoist thinking.
There is no “we” in this story, and there were no fire hoses, police dogs, or cops swinging batons so no, the students involved were absolutely not following Wallace’s example.Then why are we suddenly following his example?
Only those willfully stupid enough to see it that way.Yes, calling out flagrant, institutionalized racism and division does tend to piss people off.
1. I used to scoff at the idea of safe zones. I now wholeheartedly support the idea.
2. If a particular ethnicity wants to have an exclusive ceremony to celebrate, that's great.
3. I think that it's great that some university dormitories now reserve floors for a particular ethnicity or for gay people. In this way, the tenants will have a zone where they will be free of verbal or physical abuse.
4. I understand that some countries have public transportation reserved for women so that they do not have to worry about being harassed. A great idea.
5. I have a sneaking suspicion that as this century progresses, there will be a request by all kinds of groups for safe zones. As young people say, I am down with that idea.
You’re asserting that these separate ceremonies are held to stoke bias and division?
* Read post #11.
One young African American’s view on separate (additional) ceremonies for black Harvard grads. I personally have no issue with it whatsoever. Read and judge for yourself.So long as your reaction to (support for?) holding such segregated events by any group is the same (which I doubt) then we are then open to sanctioning whites only events (back to the bad old days).
One young African American’s view on separate (additional) ceremonies for black Harvard grads. I personally have no issue with it whatsoever. Read and judge for yourself.
When I first heard about the black graduation ceremony at Harvard, I was opposed to the idea. Why are the students segregating themselves? Why can’t they join the rest of the students in the regular graduation?
But I thought I would check with my cousin Barry, who graduated from Harvard many years ago. To my surprise, he was all for it.
“If it is in addition to the traditional graduation ceremony, in the way that each house has an additional ceremony, I think it would be fine,” he told me in an e-mail.
I was glad I had checked with him, because that was the first thing I learned:
The black Harvard graduates aren’t segregating themselves any more than any house that holds a separate ceremony is.
Through Barry’s daughter, Adrienne, I met another Harvard alum, Kristen Jones Miller, over e-mail, who shared her thoughts. (Jones Miller owns the business Mented with another Harvard alum, Amanda Johnson.)
Black Enterprise: Are you for or against the all-black Harvard graduation ceremony, and why?
Kristen Jones Miller: I love the idea of an all-black graduation ceremony. I graduated from Harvard College in 2008, and the “Black Grad” ceremony was actually a staple in the undergrad community—in fact, I was the black grad speaker. I love the [current] effort to make it school-wide because I remember feeling that ]this ceremony gave me, my family, and friends an even more intimate and community-based setting to celebrate this huge achievement.
That was the second point I learned:
Such black graduation ceremonies have been part of the graduation experience for many years at Harvard. What’s different this year is the attempt to make it school-wide.
BE: What did participating in the black graduation ceremony mean to you?
KJ: If there had been a cross-school black graduation I would have happily participated in that as well. Ultimately these events aren’t about excluding anyone—they’re about taking another moment to celebrate an amazing accomplishment with a community of people you’ve grown close to.
BE: Should these students have attended an all-black college if they wanted an all-black graduation ceremony?
KJ: No, I think this sentiment is somewhat silly. The black grad ceremony doesn’t replace the university-wide ceremony—it’s a bonus, akin to the house-specific ceremonies that are done at the undergraduate level.
Which brings us to the third fact I learned:
The black graduation at Harvard does not replace the university-wide ceremony, as I had erroneously thought.
3 Facts I Learned About Harvard's Black Graduation Ceremony
Gov. George Wallace would be proud.
More than 75 universities now host blacks-only graduation ceremonies | The College Fix
Jews, Chinese, etc., are having separate graduation ceremonies now? When did this start?
What do you think would happen if a white student insisted on graduating with the blacks? What would happen if the whites insisted on having a graduation ceremony to themselves?
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