Claremount "students of color" (aka shitskins) refuse to live with white students
A group of minority students at the Claremount Colleges are searing for roommates, but not white roommates.
Student Karé Ureña posted on Facebook that non-white students looking for housing arrangements should reach out to either her or two other students that she plans to live with in a house off campus. “POC [people of color] only” will be considered as a roommate, says the post. “I don’t want to live with any white folks,” she added.
Dalia Zada, another Claremount student, saw the post and commented, “POC only?’ Maybe I’m missing something or misunderstanding your post, but how is that not a racist thing to say?”
“This is directed to protect POC, not white people. Don’t see how this is racist at all…” responded AJ León, who is a member of the Pitzer Latino Student Union.
“People of color are allowed to create safe POC only spaces. It is not reverse racism or discriminatory, it is self preservation [sic],” said Sara Roschdi, another Pitzer Latino Student Union member. “Reverse racism isn’t a thing.”
“We don’t want to have to tiptoe around fragile white feelings in a space where we just want to relax and be comfortable,” Nina Lee, a Women’s Studies major, commented. “I could live with white people, but I would be far more comfortable living with other poc.”
“White people always mad when they don’t feel included but at the end of the day y’all are damaging asf [sic] and if a POC feels they need to protect themselves from that toxic environment THEY CAN! Quick to try to jump on a POC but you won’t call your friends out when they’re being racist asf [sic],” added Terriyonna Smith, an Africana Studies major and Resident Assistant (RA) for the 2016-2017 school year. “I’m not responding to NO comments and NOPE I don’t wanna have a dialogue.”
Jessica Saint-Fleur, another RA and member of the Black Student Union, jumped in on the conversation. “White people have cause [sic] so much mf [sic] trauma on these campuses … why in the world would I want to live with that? Bring that into my home? A place that is supposed to be safe for me?”
Pitzer College’s Mission and Values statement reads, “Intercultural Understanding enables Pitzer students to comprehend issues and events from cultural lenses beyond their own.” It also states, “[Pitzer College] supports the thoughtful exchange of ideas to increase understanding and awareness, and to work across difference without intimidation. We have the right to be heard and the responsibility to listen. Communication, even at its most vigorous, should be respectful and without intent to harm.”