The left’s effort to divide people is backwards and a little creepy.
The College Fix reports:
University of Chicago student group offers ‘Black Graduation’University of Chicago graduate students this June can participate in a “Black graduation” according to an email obtained by The College Fix.“Black Action in Public Policy Studies…is hosting a graduation ceremony for all University of Chicago Black graduate students” on June 1, the email stated. BAPP is a student group at the Harris School of Public Policy.The email described the event as “an important capstone in the Black experience at the University of Chicago.” The Fix reached out to Christian Johns and Semeredin Kundin, two Harris students listed as event contacts, to ask who is funding black graduation, how it fits in with other graduation events and what the organizers would say to criticism that black graduation is akin to segregation.“Unfortunately, we will not be able to comment on your inquiry at this time,” Johns replied.The group “dedicates itself to centering the experiences and needs of Black people through policy from a Black feminist lens,” according to its description listed on the university’s website.The university denied that the “capstone in the Black experience” event is exclusionary. The Fix reached out to spokesman Gerald McSwiggan, asking if, in addition to a “black-only graduation ceremony at UChicago,” there were any other race- or identity-specific graduation ceremonies.“Your description of the event as ‘black-only’ is inaccurate and is not part of the event description,” McSwiggan said via email. “The group’s online materials make it clear that its events and activities are open to all who are interested.”A professor and commentator on racial issues at DePaul University criticized the event in an email to The Fix.Professor Jason Hill said the university is “painting white students as persons from whom blacks need to be separated; that whites are an intimidating presence…”“The universities are creating racists out of students because, in effect, it is painting white students as persons from whom blacks need to be separated; that whites are an intimidating presence,” Professor Hill told The Fix. “The whole all-black-graduation ceremony phenomenon is predicated on the DEI axis, with an emphasis on inclusion.”
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