Word: segregationism
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Thirty years after the U.S. government forcibly integrated American schools, segregation is returning. But rather than leading the fight against it, many minority students are now on the forefront of the effort to restore it.
The phenomenon of minorities, especially Blacks, deciding to live primarily with members of their own ethnic or racial group is visible today on may college campuses, in various forms and degrees of seriousness. In one of the more extreme examples, Cornell University has dorms exclusively for individual minority groups. Harvard...
It seems that in most cases, self-segregation has less to do with hate or distrust and more to do with comfort level; people generally feel more to do with comfort level; people generally feel more at home among those they relate to. For many minorities, that group naturally entails...
Yet self-segregation has in several places gone beyond issues of comfort. When the practice reaches levels like that Cornell, where whole, dorms are set aside for people of a certain color, it merits concern, and condemnation. At this level, self-segregation stops being about individual comfort and begins being...
The rationale behind this double-standard is that minorities, Black in particular, have and continue to suffer in this country. And there can be no disputing that; one only needs to look at the percent-ages of Blacks in poverty to know that discrimination continues to leave its mark. This...