{"id":18456,"date":"2021-09-02T06:37:08","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T13:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=18456"},"modified":"2021-09-02T06:37:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T13:37:08","slug":"quick-takes-racial-segregation-in-academia-parent-teach-dialogue-sessions-racial-affinity-housing-internships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/09\/02\/quick-takes-racial-segregation-in-academia-parent-teach-dialogue-sessions-racial-affinity-housing-internships\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes \u2013 Racial Segregation in Academia: Parent-Teach Dialogue Sessions; Racial Affinity Housing; Internships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: Your kind don\u2019t belong here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood music:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GKiLEgAzFDQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Carrying on\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5372\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"176\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Elite education is segregated again, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/elite-private-school-hosts-racially-segregated-dialogue-sessions-with-parents-teachers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this time it\u2019s woke<\/a> so it\u2019s spiffy and stuff\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cBrentwood School was in the national news a couple years ago because a female teacher was accused of sexually preying on male students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cNow the elite private school in Los Angeles, with a reported tuition of nearly $38,000, is bragging about something it should also be ashamed of: racial segregation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt\u2019s not just separating the races from each other at the same \u2018Dialogue &amp; Community-Building Sessions,\u2019 part of its yearlong initiative on diversity, equity and inclusion that started last month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cBrentwood is hosting completely different virtual meetings by race and ethnicity over the next two months.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThey start later today with six meetings for faculty, staff and \u2018parents &amp; families.\u2019 Whites and blacks have their own meeting in each cohort. Parents and families for \u2018Hispanic &amp; Latinx\u2019 (woke whitespeak for Latino) and \u2018Asian &amp; Asian American follow on Wednesday.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Segregated housing was bad until <a href=\"https:\/\/campusreform.org\/article?id=17364\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">became woke<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cResponding to the conviction of Derek Chauvin for the killing of George Floyd, American University announced that it will now offer \u2018Black Affinity Housing.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018The murder of George Floyd and the many other acts of violence against Black people and communities of color are horrible reminders that racism still exists in many forms\u201d the university said on Tuesday. It stressed the importance of creating \u2018the space to process these events and care for ourselves and one another.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIn accordance with this goal, it is \u2018working to open Black Affinity Housing in the fall and advance a sense of belonging for the community.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;No Whites allowed, because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/university-of-dallas-student-denied-internship-solely-for-being-white\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">allowing someone of the wrong race<\/a> is racist or something\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cA female student at the University of Dallas has recently come forward with her story after being rejected from a summer internship opportunity due to being white.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018It\u2019s not like I was underqualified or anything, I met everything else,\u2019 said the student, who asked to remain anonymous so that her future career in the finance field is not jeopardized.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018I had the right major, I had the right GPA, I was the right year in college,\u2019\u201d she said, \u2018but I was white so they wouldn\u2019t help me.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe internship in question was offered by Sponsors for Educational Opportunity, a professional development organization with ties to major financial corporations such as CitiBank, IBM and Goldman Sachs. It was advertised as the \u2018SEO Career 2021 Paid Summer Internship\u2019 and the description was for a financial position.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIn its emailed rejection statement to the student, a copy of which was obtained by The College Fix, SEO outlined the reason for its rejection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018Thank you for your interest in SEO Career! Unfortunately, you are not eligible for the program. SEO Career targets Black, Hispanic, and Native American undergraduates, who are underrepresented in the careers they seek,\u2019 reads the rejection statement the student received.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TTFN.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Racial Segregation in Academia: Parent-Teach Dialogue Sessions; Racial Affinity Housing; Internships\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The focus this time: Your kind don\u2019t belong here...\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: Your kind don\u2019t belong here&#8230; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood music: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Carrying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/09\/02\/quick-takes-racial-segregation-in-academia-parent-teach-dialogue-sessions-racial-affinity-housing-internships\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[25,42,69,68],"class_list":["post-18456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-progressives","tag-higher-ed","tag-mood-music","tag-quick-takes","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18457,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18456\/revisions\/18457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}