What ever happened to all of that diversity and multiculturalism?

Quote:Black Harvard graduate students plan to host a “black-only” graduation ceremony later in May.

Approximately 125 students will participate in the ceremony, which took over a year to plan, reports the College Fix. The event is supposed to celebrate how black students have succeeded in higher education.

“This is an opportunity to celebrate Harvard’s Black excellence and Black brilliance,” Michael Huggins, a master’s student in public policy, told The Root. “It’s an event where we can see each other and our parents and family can see us as a collective, whole group. A community.”

Students raised over $27,000 to cover the cost of the ceremony and its reception. They hope to have another black-only ceremony next year that will include undergraduate students as well.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/08/ivy-le...-ceremony/

I think it's only fair.

I think they should mark the degree of any person who gets special assistance or accommodation in college.

Yup... I said it.

Wasnt this the norm prior to de-segregation?

This is not surprising considering the the general liberal message to the American people is "Shut up, whitey."

All colleges should hold separate commencement ceremonies for families who want to hoot and holler when their graduate walks across the stage. Most of them are black families I have noticed. I'm so sick of that rudeness.

(05-09-2017 09:34 AM)usmbacker Wrote:  

What ever happened to all of that diversity and multiculturalism?

Quote:Black Harvard graduate students plan to host a “black-only” graduation ceremony later in May.

Approximately 125 students will participate in the ceremony, which took over a year to plan, reports the College Fix. The event is supposed to celebrate how black students have succeeded in higher education.

“This is an opportunity to celebrate Harvard’s Black excellence and Black brilliance,” Michael Huggins, a master’s student in public policy, told The Root. “It’s an event where we can see each other and our parents and family can see us as a collective, whole group. A community.”

Students raised over $27,000 to cover the cost of the ceremony and its reception. They hope to have another black-only ceremony next year that will include undergraduate students as well.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/08/ivy-le...-ceremony/

Are you trying to make this more than it's not? I don't see a problem with it. The article clearly states that its not a form of segregation but a time of fellowship.

The students insist that having a ceremony just for black students isn’t a form of segregation, but a way for them to have fellowship together.

“This is not about segregation. It’s about fellowship and building a community. This is a chance to reaffirm for each other that we enter the work world with a network of supporters standing with us,” Huggins added.

Black students at Harvard have a higher graduation rate than national standards — 96 percent of the college’s black students graduate within six years, according to a 2011 report. Only 44 percent of black students graduate on a national level."

That is a big accomplishment.

Can you imagine the outrage if there were a white only ceremony?

They are just clinging to their guns, bibles and race.

(05-09-2017 09:53 AM)pcm0103 Wrote:  Are you trying to make this more than it's not? I don't see a problem with it. The article clearly states that its not a form of segregation but a time of fellowship.

The students insist that having a ceremony just for black students isn’t a form of segregation, but a way for them to have fellowship together.

“This is not about segregation. It’s about fellowship and building a community. This is a chance to reaffirm for each other that we enter the work world with a network of supporters standing with us,” Huggins added.

LMFAO. Please. There would be pure outrage if white people did this and said they wanted to just have time to "fellowship together."

(05-09-2017 09:53 AM)pcm0103 Wrote:  Black students at Harvard have a higher graduation rate than national standards — 96 percent of the college’s black students graduate within six years, according to a 2011 report. Only 44 percent of black students graduate on a national level."

That is a big accomplishment.

Of course they have a higher graduation rate than at other schools. That's the same for whites at Ivy Leagues too. Be intellectually honest.

(05-09-2017 09:53 AM)pcm0103 Wrote:  The students insist that having a ceremony just for black students isn’t a form of segregation, but a way for them to have fellowship together.

In other less reported news, KKK members insist that having a ceremony just for white students isn’t a form of segregation, but a way for them to have fellowship together.

(05-09-2017 09:51 AM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  This is not surprising considering the the general liberal message to the American people is "Shut up, whitey."

Well...All cities were racist last week, now ALL white people are racist.

Quote:The outgoing chair of the University of Wisconsin-Madison student government ripped her college upon departure, saying it “lacks the capacity, courage, and integrity to protect communities of color.”

The Daily Cardinal reports that in a letter addressed to the entire UW-Madison community, Carmen Goséy wrote “I was operating in a white position as a person of color […] Now I see the University was not designed for the success of minority communities; it was designed for white students to learn about my oppression while not having to participate in dismantling it.”

She added “all white people are racist” and that her chairmanship of the Associated Students of Madison made her “a token for white supremacists.”

https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/32486/

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/0...story.html

Quote:Black students make up just under 14 percent of the students accepted into Harvard’s undergraduate class of 2020.

Notice how that sentence is phrased.

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/table/PST045215/00

Quote:Black or African American alone, percent, July 1, 2015, (V2015) (a)
13.3%

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/0...story.html


But the ceremony is “not about segregation,” said Michael Huggins, president of the Harvard Black Graduate Student Alliance, which is organizing the event. Students of all racial and ethnic backgrounds may attend, he said, and the black students taking part in the ceremony also plan to attend the university’s official commencement on May 25 in Harvard Yard.

“The primary reason we wanted to do this is we really wanted to come together to celebrate Harvard black excellence and brilliance,” said Huggins, who is graduating from the Kennedy School. “This is really an opportunity for students to build fellowship and build a community.”

(05-09-2017 10:07 AM)pcm0103 Wrote:  https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/0...story.html


But the ceremony is “not about segregation,” said Michael Huggins, president of the Harvard Black Graduate Student Alliance, which is organizing the event. Students of all racial and ethnic backgrounds may attend, he said, and the black students taking part in the ceremony also plan to attend the university’s official commencement on May 25 in Harvard Yard.

“The primary reason we wanted to do this is we really wanted to come together to celebrate Harvard black excellence and brilliance,” said Huggins, who is graduating from the Kennedy School. “This is really an opportunity for students to build fellowship and build a community.”

Of course they can attend. They can't participate though b/c they aren't "special".

(05-09-2017 10:09 AM)Hood-rich Wrote:  

(05-09-2017 10:07 AM)pcm0103 Wrote:  https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/0...story.html


But the ceremony is “not about segregation,” said Michael Huggins, president of the Harvard Black Graduate Student Alliance, which is organizing the event. Students of all racial and ethnic backgrounds may attend, he said, and the black students taking part in the ceremony also plan to attend the university’s official commencement on May 25 in Harvard Yard.

“The primary reason we wanted to do this is we really wanted to come together to celebrate Harvard black excellence and brilliance,” said Huggins, who is graduating from the Kennedy School. “This is really an opportunity for students to build fellowship and build a community.”

Of course they can attend. They can't participate though b/c they aren't "special".

(05-09-2017 09:34 AM)usmbacker Wrote:  

What ever happened to all of that diversity and multiculturalism?

Quote:Black Harvard graduate students plan to host a “black-only” graduation ceremony later in May.

Approximately 125 students will participate in the ceremony, which took over a year to plan, reports the College Fix. The event is supposed to celebrate how black students have succeeded in higher education.

“This is an opportunity to celebrate Harvard’s Black excellence and Black brilliance,” Michael Huggins, a master’s student in public policy, told The Root. “It’s an event where we can see each other and our parents and family can see us as a collective, whole group. A community.”

Students raised over $27,000 to cover the cost of the ceremony and its reception. They hope to have another black-only ceremony next year that will include undergraduate students as well.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/08/ivy-le...-ceremony/

Imagine this:
"This is an opportunity to celebrate Harvard ' s White excellence and White brilliance. " And a separate whites only commencement.

Heads would explode.

hmmm so they want to go back to the segregation era?

(05-09-2017 10:07 AM)pcm0103 Wrote:  https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/0...story.html


But the ceremony is “not about segregation,” said Michael Huggins, president of the Harvard Black Graduate Student Alliance, which is organizing the event. Students of all racial and ethnic backgrounds may attend, he said, and the black students taking part in the ceremony also plan to attend the university’s official commencement on May 25 in Harvard Yard.

“The primary reason we wanted to do this is we really wanted to come together to celebrate Harvard black excellence and brilliance,” said Huggins, who is graduating from the Kennedy School. “This is really an opportunity for students to build fellowship and build a community.”

Of course they do!

One for me and one for us.

(05-09-2017 10:09 AM)Hood-rich Wrote:  Of course they can attend. They can't participate though b/c they aren't "special".

Almost like they are having separate, but equal, events.

(05-09-2017 10:16 AM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  hmmm so they want to go back to the segregation era?

MLK is turning around in his grave. Poor guy, and he had to die for nothing. Thanks Oblunder and your "type of diversity".