WND EXCLUSIVE

PROGRESS? IT'S BACK TO SEGREGATION AT U.S. COLLEGES

'This can only be described as dumbing down of the population'

Leo Hohmann

An Illinois college has defended its restriction of portions of a mandatory course to black students even though part of the stated goal of the class is to teach students “an appreciation for diversity.” But the case appears to be part of a larger trend of “black only” zones on U.S. college campuses.

In the most recent case, the mother of a student said she and her son noticed something strange in the course description for “College 101” while registering at Moraine Valley Community College.

“We noticed that the required course College 101 has two sections limited to African-American students,” the concerned parent told the Chicago Tribune. “He wants to know why there are not two sections limited to Asian-American students? How about Native American students?”

The College 101 class “provides an opportunity to assess your purpose for college, assess your study strategies, set college and career goals, examine your values and decision-making skills, and develop an appreciation for diversity,” according to the course catalog.

“While peer support may improve success rates among African-American students, the reverse is not necessarily also true. Imagine the outrage if, in this day and age, students registering for classes were confronted with sections designated ‘whites only,'” writes the Tribune’s Ted Slowik, who said he supports segregated programs for blacks because of inequalities in the K-12 education system that often denies blacks an education of equal quality and, therefore, leaves them less prepared for college.

Blacks are less likely to be as well prepared as whites, he said, because of the “achievement gap” in public schools and, therefore, they deserve special attention to help them succeed in college.

Not all agree.

Alex Newman, co-author of “Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians are Using Government Schools to Destroy America’s Children,” said it’s no longer unusual to see these types of outrageous courses being taught on college campuses.

Alex Newman

“This sounds like yet another example of collectivism gone wild in the so-called education system, which is almost becoming a parody of itself with these kinds of absurdities,” Newman told WND.

‘Schools no longer teaching what normal people understand as academics’

And if you think the absurdities start at the college level, think again, he said.

“Americans need to understand that this otherwise fringe ideology and extremism is now thoroughly embedded throughout the education system, from pre-K through university. Schools are no longer really doing what normal people understand as education or academics,” Newman said.

“Instead, they are increasingly involved in indoctrination, social engineering, and what can only be described as the dumbing down of the population,” he added. “Unfortunately, as we document in ‘Crimes of the Educators,’ it is true that the government’s miseducation system has harmed black Americans even more than others, although all Americans have suffered from it.”

But the remedy is not more of the same “racialist, collectivist, leftist poison,” he said.

And it’s not just happening at Moraine.

Fox News reported earlier this year that the University of Connecticut was implementing a “bold” new strategy to help boost its abysmal graduation rates for black males. The plan involves the clustering of 40 black male students in a portion of one dorm, no whites or Asians allowed, in what the university calls a “learning community.”

Proponents believe the students can draw on their “common experiences” and help each other make it to commencement, Fox reported, while others cringe at the idea of “black-only” housing, saying it overturns decades of hard-fought racial progress.

Horace Cooper

Horace Cooper of Project 21 told OneNewsNow he questions how the UConn housing policy differs from the Jim Crow laws of the Deep South, where blacks were blocked by whites from using the same public water foundations and were sent to a blacks-only public school.

There is no difference, Cooper says, between a Jim Crow segregationist and a “progressive” professor claiming that black-only segregation is good.

“The truth of the matter is, it is absolutely dividing people along racial lines,” he told OneNewsNow.

At UCLA, the Afrikan Student Union is insisting upon an “Afrikan Diaspora floor” as well as an “Afro-house,” the College Fix reported.

A group called WeDemand.org has a list of hundreds of “demands” by black student movements at universities across the country. Many of the demands include calls for major reductions in white faculty and separate”safe spaces” for black students.

For example, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, black students seem to be calling for a return to racial policies that were phased out years ago, stating that they “DEMAND that the Black Student Movement (BSM) reclaim control of the Upendo Lounge in the Student and Academic Services Building. As early as 1972, BSM had its own space in Chase Hall, called the Upendo Lounge; however, Chase Hall was demolished in 2003, and BSM currently does not have a meeting place under their complete jurisdiction.”

Newman pointed to another case of college race-bating at the University of Missouri last November. After university president Tim Wolfe was forced to resigned over his handling of alleged racism on campus, the “concerned student organization” that fomented the resignation asked its white supporters to leave so they could have a “blacks only healing zone,” NewsFoxes reported,

“It’s time for the education system to get back to teaching and real academics,” Newman said. “American taxpayers expect schools and community colleges to educate children and young adults as unique individuals, not indoctrinate them with collectivist race-mongering or segregate them based on arbitrary characteristics like the melanin content of their skin. This extremism at Moraine Valley Community College is just the tip of an iceberg of insanity pervading all of America’s so-called education system. It’s time for real change.”

But Jessica Crotty, Moraine’s assistant director of communications, made the case for segregation, saying the school periodically reserves certain course offerings for various demographics of students, including veterans.

“Sometimes we set aside sections for specific populations, including veterans and older students,” Crotty told the Tribune.

“The focus can be on specific issues they face,” she explained. “For example, veterans face a specific set of challenges. Students feel comfortable and are more likely to open up because they’re with other students who are like them.”

Segregation in public schools is illegal

Pastor and author Carl Gallups

Carl Gallups, a Christian pastor, popular author and radio host, said the actions by Moraine are not only morally suspect but patently illegal, given the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision 60 years ago that racial segregation in public education was a violation of the U.S. Constitution.

In the landmark 1954 case of Brown vs. Board of Topeka, Kansas, the Supreme Court ruled that separate but equal schooling was not acceptable.

“In typical and hypocritically liberal fashion the course’s description says that it will help the black students develop an ‘appreciation for diversity.’ The course description and the course’s requirement of the separation of the races are oxymoronic,” said Gallups, author of “Be Thou Prepared” and “Final Warning.”

Could that same same logic then be used, Gallups asks, for a class offered in “white history,” only for white students, and designed to help them appreciate diversity in order to more adequately assimilate into college life? “Can you imagine the outrage?”

And, Gallups wonders, what does this course say to the new black student on the university campus?

“I think it says something like, “You’re not equipped for campus life yet, so we’re gonna give you some remedial training right from the start. You need some ‘special’ help because you’re black. No other racial group needs this special attention.”

To add further insult to the matter, a university official claims that by offering segregated classes, “Students feel comfortable and are more likely to open up because they’re with other students who are like them.”

“But, wasn’t that the same argument used by the racist elements in the United States before the ’50s who were opposed to black students integrating within their schools?” Gallups asked. “Wasn’t their argument, which was ultimately deemed to be blatantly racist, exactly the same argument this university is now making in 2016? Of course it is. It appears this university has gone down the same road, perhaps with initial good intentions, but the same road nonetheless.”

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