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News: Cal State LA offers "segregated" housing for black students
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Cal State LA offers "segregated" housing for black students
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California State University Los Angeles recently rolled out segregated housing for black students.
The arrangement comes roughly nine months after the university’s Black Student Union issued a set of demands in response to what its members contend are frequent “racist attacks” on campus, such as “racially insensitive remarks” and “microaggressions” by professors and students. One demand was for a “CSLA housing space delegated for Black students.”
“[It] would provide a cheaper alternative housing solution for Black students. This space would also serve as a safe space for Black CSLA students to congregate, connect, and learn from each other,” the demand letter stated.
The newly debuted Halisi Scholars Black Living-Learning Community “focuses on academic excellence and learning experiences that are inclusive and non-discriminatory,” Cal State LA spokesman Robert Lopez told The College Fix via email.
The public university has 192 furnished apartments in a residential complex on campus, and the Halisi community will be located there, Lopez said, adding it joins other themed living-learning communities already housed there.
Lopez declined to answer any additional questions or provide more details on the new community, such as how many rooms it encompasses, and whether it’s a whole floor or just a few rooms.
Cal State LA joins UConn, UC Davis and Berkeley in offering segregated housing dedicated to black students. While these housing options are technically open to all students, they’re billed and used as arrangements in which black students can live with one another.
Meanwhile, at Cal State LA, campus leaders took down much of the online information on the new housing that it posted in late July. And university housing officials and other campus officials rebuffed requests by The College Fix for more details.
If campus leaders are proud of the new housing, they appear disinclined to talk about it.
CSULA’s Housing Services page offers one paragraph on the new black living-learning community, calling it an effort to “enhance the residential experience for students who are a part of or interested in issues of concern to the black community living on campus by offering the opportunity to connect with faculty and peers, and engage in programs that focus on academic success, cultural awareness, and civic engagement.”
In addition to the Black Student Union’s housing demand, the group also demanded a $30 million dollar scholarship endowment to aid black students, three new black faculty counselors, a new anti-discrimination policy and cultural competency course for faculty and students, and finally, a meeting with the president for them to discuss the “fulfillment and implementation of each demand.”
After the Halisi housing community was announced, the Black Student Union celebrated on its Instagram page, calling it a “long overdue, but well deserved” achievement, Young America’s Foundation reports.
Members of Cal State LA’s Black Student Union declined requests for comment from The College Fix.
Young America’s Foundation quoted from the Halisi housing application prior to university officials taking it offline. Rules students who seek to live in Halisi must agree to include “respect the differences of others that live in my community and look for positive thing to learn from them,” “be an advocate for change if the tools and resources available are deemed inadequate,” and “accept that I am still learning and need to be open to new ideas and experiences.”
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http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/28906/
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Los Angeles leading the way 
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My black best friend just moved there 
She just said she hasn't heard anything about this and "there are more Mexicans than anything on campus" 
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my school has this too, it's not "segregation"
at my school it's called Harambe House ( ) and its like 80% black students and 20% white/non-black students who are interested in black activism/just want to live there because their friends live there
this type of housing would only be segregation if black students were forced to live in the black housing and white students weren't allowed to live there
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Originally posted by lightstheyblindme
my school has this too, it's not "segregation"
at my school it's called Harambe House ( ) and its like 80% black students and 20% white/non-black students who are interested in black activism/just want to live there because their friends live there
this type of housing would only be segregation if black students were forced to live in the black housing and white students weren't allowed to live there |
Not Harambe House
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Originally posted by lightstheyblindme
my school has this too, it's not "segregation"
at my school it's called Harambe House () and its like 80% black students and 20% white/non-black students who are interested in black activism/just want to live there because their friends live there
this type of housing would only be segregation if black students were forced to live in the black housing and white students weren't allowed to live there |
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Is it really "segregation" if they're there by choice?
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Good choice for them. If the area doesn't work on its racism, they have a right to safe spaces.
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Originally posted by lightstheyblindme
my school has this too, it's not "segregation"
at my school it's called Harambe House ( ) and its like 80% black students and 20% white/non-black students who are interested in black activism/just want to live there because their friends live there
this type of housing would only be segregation if black students were forced to live in the black housing and white students weren't allowed to live there |
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Originally posted by lightstheyblindme
my school has this too, it's not "segregation"
at my school it's called Harambe House ( ) and its like 80% black students and 20% white/non-black students who are interested in black activism/just want to live there because their friends live there
this type of housing would only be segregation if black students were forced to live in the black housing and white students weren't allowed to live there |
;kmljvndskfm;ads, NOT HARAMBE HOUSE 
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This is why Cal State Northridge >>>>>> Cal State L.A.
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Is not this against what black people have been fighting for?
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Originally posted by MANUELF
Is not this against what black people have been fighting for?
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Yes but SJW's are cheering for regressive actions and calling them "progressive".
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Originally posted by MANUELF
Is not this against what black people have been fighting for?
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What are you talking about?
Throughout US history, black people have always built their own communities and tried to succeed and progress and build where they could, even if that meant outside of other communities that they were locked out of. Look at Black Wall Street. There's black-only colleges. How is having to find ways to cope and protect black livelihood against white supremacy that refuses to change or be changed not part of what civil rights is?
White supremacy is also not part of what black people fight for, yet you focused on everything but that. Interesting.
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Yes but SJW's are cheering for regressive actions and calling them "progressive".
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What's regressive about this?
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If they want their own building, let them have it. 
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The way they're phrasing it in the headlines is just to receive attention. This is nothing new. Many schools have specialized housing programs (my school called them living-learning programs and had them for different academic groups and stuff, some of the aimed at minorities). My school even has housing that is gender-neutral/specialized for LGBT students. I don't see it as regressive. Honestly, I would have loved the idea of getting to live with other Black students, especially since my school had a really small population of Black students that lived on-campus.
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Originally posted by lightstheyblindme
my school has this too, it's not "segregation"
at my school it's called Harambe House ( ) and its like 80% black students and 20% white/non-black students who are interested in black activism/just want to live there because their friends live there
this type of housing would only be segregation if black students were forced to live in the black housing and white students weren't allowed to live there |
It's called " Harambee House", which in Swahili means "all pull together". Do your research.
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Originally posted by NE.
The way they're phrasing it in the headlines is just to receive attention. This is nothing new. Many schools have specialized housing programs (my school called them living-learning programs and had them for different academic groups and stuff, some of the aimed at minorities). My school even has housing that is gender-neutral/specialized for LGBT students. I don't see it as regressive. Honestly, I would have loved the idea of getting to live with other Black students, especially since my school had a really small population of Black students that lived on-campus.
It's called "Harambee House", which in Swahili means "all pull together". Do your research.
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Thank you because I was about to say, are people in this thread really laughing about a house being named after a gorilla because black people live in it???
OT: Sounds good
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Originally posted by lightstheyblindme
my school has this too, it's not "segregation"
at my school it's called Harambe House ( ) and its like 80% black students and 20% white/non-black students who are interested in black activism/just want to live there because their friends live there
this type of housing would only be segregation if black students were forced to live in the black housing and white students weren't allowed to live there |
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