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Should the NAACP be forced by the courts to accept white people? I believe the courts would examine the "Harms" to both sides and award compensation to the "class" where discrimination caused harm.
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Whew! That hat was burning my head. Now, for my opinion. I agree with you.
If there were a "Blacks Only" public library, that would be an intolerable discrimination. Also, there would be an outrage if outside the lounge in question they had a "blacks only" restroom. So, how can a lounge be allowed to be minority only? I think it would be a tough legal fight and they would be branded by 90% of the campus as racists or KKK. For me, I would leave it be as a distraction from the real purpose of being at the University, to get the degree and then escape to the *real* world. Let the pompous, elist, snobs have their ivory tower. It is just unfortunate that our society values and in many cases requires that experience of wallowing through the bowels of liberalism.
Personally, I wouldn't get worked up about it as there are plenty of other places to study on campus. But, I'm just a rich white boy who never had to work very hard for things and when I knocked on the doors of opportunity they were not shut in my face. Some of that may be due to the color of my skin, but I also had to work to get them. When my ancestors arrived here in Minnesota from Sweden in the early 1900's the harms of slavery in the south were past, but they benefitted from a society that favored the white immigrant over the black american. They benefitted from being able to buy and farm the land that was taken from the native americans (as recent as the mid 1800's). So, am I culpable as the product of that privaledge? If yes, then for how long? How many generations will need to pay the reparations? Maybe they will take it all back and send us whitey's back to Europe. I'm glad I still have relatives and friends in Sweden.
Should the NAACP be forced by the courts to accept white people? I believe the courts would examine the "Harms" to both sides and award compensation to the "class" where discrimination caused harm.
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Whew! That hat was burning my head. Now, for my opinion. I agree with you.
If there were a "Blacks Only" public library, that would be an intolerable discrimination. Also, there would be an outrage if outside the lounge in question they had a "blacks only" restroom. So, how can a lounge be allowed to be minority only? I think it would be a tough legal fight and they would be branded by 90% of the campus as racists or KKK. For me, I would leave it be as a distraction from the real purpose of being at the University, to get the degree and then escape to the *real* world. Let the pompous, elist, snobs have their ivory tower. It is just unfortunate that our society values and in many cases requires that experience of wallowing through the bowels of liberalism.
Personally, I wouldn't get worked up about it as there are plenty of other places to study on campus. But, I'm just a rich white boy who never had to work very hard for things and when I knocked on the doors of opportunity they were not shut in my face. Some of that may be due to the color of my skin, but I also had to work to get them. When my ancestors arrived here in Minnesota from Sweden in the early 1900's the harms of slavery in the south were past, but they benefitted from a society that favored the white immigrant over the black american. They benefitted from being able to buy and farm the land that was taken from the native americans (as recent as the mid 1800's). So, am I culpable as the product of that privaledge? If yes, then for how long? How many generations will need to pay the reparations? Maybe they will take it all back and send us whitey's back to Europe. I'm glad I still have relatives and friends in Sweden.