"Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" George Wallace (D. AL) 1963 inauguration speech

So long, sucker

Rice University students demand separate “Black House”. A student group at Rice University, in Houston, Texas, is ‘demanding’ officials fund a Black House on campus as well as remove a prominent statue of the school’s slave-owner founder.

The commands were made by Rice’s newly formed Black Students Association (BSA) and posted publicly to the school’s Graduate Student Association (GSA) official Facebook page.

‘Here are what black undergraduate students have demanded from Rice University administration,’ author of the post, graduate research assistant Dani Perdue wrote. ‘I hope they are listening! #NoMoreLipService #blacklivesmatter.’

In addition to establishing a Black House on campus, the demands highlighted by Perdue also sought the ‘removal’ of a statue of the university’s founder, William Marsh Rice, a slave owner and businessman who left the bulk of his estate to help build the university in 1912 on the grounds it would be for ‘whites only’.

… Within that list, BSA explained the prospective Black House should have all the ‘features of a residential college’ but be ‘specifically made for Black students and Black organizations to congregate and hold events.’

‘It would be best to have a central, safe space that Black students can meet and hangout in anytime of the day,’ BSA continued.

In addition, the student also assets that ‘course descriptions should include tags that indicate what race/ethnic/cultural groups are included since many course titles do not make it clear if they include diverse perspectives in their course material.’

As reported by FOX News, after a number of students began questioning whether the demand for a ‘Black House’ amounted to a call for on-campus segregation, president of the GSA, Alison Farrish, apparently deleted the objections. Eventually, the post was removed all together [sic].

Because “demands” are not open for discussion.

Segregated dorms are not new: once-prestigious schools like Berkley and Cornell established them in the 70s, MIT has “Chocolate City”, and even lowly UConn created the “Scholastic House of Leaders”, which is either hilarious or tragic, depending on your view of these things. But in view of the increasing proliferation of separate admission standards, grading, and segregated course studies, why continue the pretense of being color blind and admit, proudly, that we a society built and run on racial principles.