Debate flares after black college students seek a non-white roommate

christiefan915 said:
Simone Manuel made history on Thursday night in Rio when she tied Penny Oleksiak in the 100m freestyle to win a gold medal, becoming the first female African-American swimmer to win a gold for the U.S. in an individual event. The accomplishment by Manuel was incredible and significant, and it led to tons of celebration from American fans. The 20-year-old Stanford student also made headlines throughout the country, though one was not as kind as others.

The San Jose Mercury News insulted Manuel by omitting her name from its headline and simply calling her an "African American." The Northern California newspaper scrambled to try fixing things after receiving some backlash, but they screwed up the amended headline by forgetting the word "with."

On take three, they finally got it right. The new headline stated "Olympics: Stanford's Simone Manuel and Michael Phelps make history." The Mercury News also apologized for the original headline.
The newspaper elaborated in an editor's note on the article.

"The original headline on this story was insensitive and has been updated to acknowledge the historic gold medal wins by both Simone Manuel and Michael Phelps. We apologize for the original headline. The story has also been updated," the note said.

At least the newspaper apologized for the original headline, though there isn't an excuse for making a mistake like that. Then again, we also couldn't believe something like this could happen, and it did.


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http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/oly...-simone-manuel-headline/ar-BBvxccY?li=BBnb7Kz
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Isn't San Jose in that proclaimed liberal State of California?? :eek2:
 
Leonthecat said:
This racial discrimination could be racist, but this racial discrimination is not likely racist in nature.
People of color are very rarely true racists.
See my signature for the definition, if you need clarification.
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That's such a load of crap I don't even know where to start.
 
Do I think it's racist? Yeah. But it's more like extreme SJW racism than white supremacy racism. An extremely misguided attempt at creating a safe space.
 
Granule said:
In most respects, the roommate-wanted notice seemed routine. Three students at the Claremont colleges in Southern California were looking for a fourth this summer to join them in an off-campus house. They added a caveat in parentheses: “POC only,” they said, using a common abbreviation for people of color.

When a classmate challenged that condition, the Pitzer College student who posted the notice on Facebook pushed back. “It’s exclusive [because] I don’t want to live with any white folks,” wrote Karé Ureña, who is black.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/de...non-white-roommate/ar-BBvwxHz?ocid=spartandhp


What a fucking racist.
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Where does it suggest inherent inferiority of race ?
That's right, it doesn't.
The ones running the ad have a bias against Caucasians.
So call them bigots.
 
christiefan915 said:
Wash the grime off yourself, hack.

"A Sigma Alpha Epsilon brother at Yale turned dark-skinned students away from a party this weekend, telling them, “No, we’re only looking for white girls,” according to a student who said she witnessed him standing on the front steps and blocking a group from entering. Those girls looked startled and walked away, said Sofia Petros-Gouin, a Columbia freshman who was visiting friends at Yale over the weekend. She described a stairway crowded with people trying to get into the Halloween party, and the fraternity brother, who was white, repeatedly saying, “White girls only,” and letting only blond women enter."
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Perhaps Yale should become an all white college. Hell, people of African color have shit loads of 'em. Here's their top 30: http://www.bestcolleges.com/features/top-30-historically-black-colleges/

You see, Communist #915, in your twisted world, black lives matter, but yours isn't worth shit. You're a tool. You always will be, and you've probably always been one.
 
Mr.Badguy said:
Do I think it's racist? Yeah. But it's more like extreme SJW racism than white supremacy racism. An extremely misguided attempt at creating a safe space.
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Rationalize all you want, tool. Racism is racism. It's just that one side of racism doesn't get reported nearly as often as the other side does. That's what makes this article pure gold.
 
From the article:

"To some, Ureña’s request was completely understandable following a racially charged year when many students of color had demanded more support from the administration. To others, it was simple racism to exclude potential roommates based on skin color."

To the reasonable, the morally sound, and the educated, it's just plain racism, and black America has been getting away with it for God knows how long.
 
Not a single lefty called this racism and not a single one expressed outrage like they would have done if a white person had wrote this.

Poor predictable JPP lefties.
 
Seahawk said:
Not a single lefty called this racism and not a single one expressed outrage like they would have done if a white person had wrote this.

Poor predictable JPP lefties.
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And not a single rightie - you included - said anything at all about NOVA's bogus "99%" stat for Muslim terrorism.

Check out the mirror, Yurt.
 
Thing1 said:
And not a single rightie - you included - said anything at all about NOVA's bogus "99%" stat for Muslim terrorism.

Check out the mirror, Yurt.
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Link that up, please. If the thread speaks about how 99% of Muslims are susceptible to the terrorist bug, I'd believe that.
 
Leonthecat said:
This racial discrimination could be racist, but this racial discrimination is not likely racist in nature.
People of color are very rarely true racists.
See my signature for the definition, if you need clarification.
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Nope its not racist at all...its not like they 'excluded' the white race with premeditation. And white could be black, but white is not likely black. What the hell? Clarification? Really? Have you ever been introduced to the 3rd law of logic? Nothing can be both true and false at the same instance. Nothing can be a little bit true and a little bit false. Either its true that racism has occurred or its negation is true. It appears that you have no trouble playing both ends against the middle. FYI: That logical thought is called the Law of Excluded Middle....something is either true or its negation is true...its impossible to hold both positions and still be considered as a LOGICAL TRUTH. But I have never considered BULL SHIT as truth. :)
 
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