Emory University’s Campus Life Department will be hosting a social event for people of color only.
According to DeLa Sweeney, Emory’s interim director for Multicultural Programs, the event “will hopefully manifest into a series of annual gatherings.”
In an interview with Campus Reform, Sweeney defended the event – which certainly seems like a strange one for a director of Multicultural Programs to plan.
He says the socials will help people of color explore their “shared interests and common goals” in the absence of white people.
This event has drawn the ire of many people online.
More blatant racism at college. Wrong skin color, you can't come, can't sit at our lunch counter. https://t.co/uUneBxxLc1
— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) October 21, 2016
Just imagine if someone proposed a whites-only campus social event. They'd be expelled & charged with a hate crime. https://t.co/waOiLzQceF
— Elizabeth Evans (@Deplorable_EE) October 21, 2016
Indeed, you’d be hard-pressed to find a recent example of white students even trying to form a ‘caucasian only’ group.
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