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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

Our society, from college students to congress, has really lost touch with how to bring about effective change.

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ORIGINAL: thompsonx


ORIGINAL: Real0ne


yeh, the gubmint model, at the end of a barrel of a gun! works every time!

Since when have lying nazi buffoons like yourself been against this sort of behavior?

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

oh no comrades, fox news!

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More than 100 students at the University of California, Santa Cruz took over an administration building on Tuesday, calling school officials to meet demands on changes at the campus.

The group African/Black Student Alliance organized the protest where about 150 students blockaded Kerr Hall about 1 p.m., KGO-TV reported. They chained the front door closed and barred other openings with furniture.

Good morning everyone! Things are great here at reclaimed Kerr Hall. #MeetABSADemands pic.twitter.com/PesmmkqDQ2
— Kadijah Means (@SpecialKay00) May 3, 2017

The protesters are pushing the administration to guarantee four-year housing at Rosa Parks African American Themed House, located at Stevenson College. The building is a housing option for students interested in "historical, present-day, and future experiences of predominately Black/African American peoples," according to the university's website.

The protesters also want the house painted red, green and black, and want the university to offer diversity competency training to incoming students, KGO-TV reported.

The protesters told school officials they would remain at Kerr Hall until their requests are met.

"We gave the chancellor a simple, very simple list of demands that will uplift and affirm the humanity of our black people, we will be here until our demands are met and we are not leaving until our demands are met," the group said in a statement to KGO-TV.

Scott Hernandez-Jason, a UC Santa Cruz spokesman, said in a statement to Fox News that the protest is peaceful and the chancellor is working with student groups to address their concerns.

"Our focus is on ensuring the safety of staff who work in the building and of the students who took over the building," Hernandez-Jason said in the statement.

"Chancellor George Blumenthal has been working with several student groups, including the African/Black Student Alliance and the Black Experience Team, over the past year to explore ways to effectively address some of their concerns. We’ve taken some steps forward, including hiring a recruitment specialist and a retention specialist, and continue to discuss how we can make sure that all students feel supported and have a sense of belonging."

The African/Black Student Alliance is said to be one of the largest and oldest student organization at UC Santa Cruz, the university website stated.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/05/03/student-protesters-take-over-uc-santa-cruz-administration-building.html

I don't see the "taking over of a building" as "peaceful."

forcibly remove them? have them arrested? expelled? allow them to continue?

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ORIGINAL: WinsomeDefiance

My response to that is WTF? Why are they demanding to be segregated? This one, I don't get.

I get that young people go to College to broaden their minds and acquire progressive ideologies, but desegregation isn't progressive.

It is regressive, decades worth of progress toward civil rights being .... crap, I got nothing.

I'm an old white lady, I'd like to understand their reasoning and logic, maybe I'm missing something.

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ORIGINAL: Nnanji

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ORIGINAL: WinsomeDefiance

My response to that is WTF? Why are they demanding to be segregated? This one, I don't get.

I get that young people go to College to broaden their minds and acquire progressive ideologies, but desegregation isn't progressive.

It is regressive, decades worth of progress toward civil rights being .... crap, I got nothing.

I'm an old white lady, I'd like to understand their reasoning and logic, maybe I'm missing something.

It shows that it's not about equality. They're doing exactly what segregationists in the south did.

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ORIGINAL: thompsonx


ORIGINAL: WinsomeDefiance


I'm an old white lady, I'd like to understand their reasoning and logic, maybe I'm missing something.

We have computers and google...how difficult would it be to follow the links nnanji posted to the actual folks making the demand/b]

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ORIGINAL: WinsomeDefiance
How can racism be eradicated, if people insist on thinking along the lines of Us vs Them, and demanding to be segregated?

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