{"id":60201,"date":"2016-09-07T05:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T10:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60201"},"modified":"2016-09-06T17:32:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T22:32:05","slug":"60201","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60201","title":{"rendered":"Segregated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Cal State offers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/post\/28906\/\"><span class=\"s2\">segregated housing for Black students<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 This is a good thing, Black students demanded their own space, safe from racist attacks, racially insensitive remarks and micro-aggressions committed by faculty and students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Imagine if the headline said \u201cCal State REQUIRES segregated housing for Black students.\u201d\u00a0 The end result would be the same safe space for Black students; but would the headlines be as cheerful? \u00a0Of course not, freedom of association would be denied if Blacks were forced to segregate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Imagine if White students said \u201cPolicing our speech to avoid micro-aggressions is mentally exhausting.\u00a0 We want a safe space where we can freely express ourselves without offending others.\u00a0 We want Whites-only housing.\u201d\u00a0 The end result would be the same campus free of micro-aggressions against Black students; but would the headlines be as cheerful?\u00a0 Of course not, freedom of association would be denied if Whites were allowed to segregate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Why do these things always seem to be one-way streets?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">It&#8217;s only weird if your worldview is based in logic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Cal State offers segregated housing for Black students.\u00a0 This is a good thing, Black students demanded their own space, safe from racist attacks, racially insensitive remarks and micro-aggressions committed by faculty and students. \u00a0Imagine if the headline said \u201cCal State REQUIRES segregated housing for Black students.\u201d\u00a0 The end result [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60203,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60201\/revisions\/60203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}