‘Embarrassed to be a part of the university’
When American University gave into demands from black student activists to keep white people out of a new cafe, the administration probably considered the school-sanctioned segregation would be short-lived.
In the wake of the racist-banana incident on campus, activists had demanded sole use of The Bridge Cafe as a “sanctuary” for people of color through the end of the semester, which was only a few days away.
Now that the semester is over, The Bridge Cafe has apparently become a sanctuary for junk.
An alumnus who went to check out the space Monday told The College Fix in an email that “it was unoccupied and looked like it was being used [as] a storage space for stuff from commencement weekend” the prior two days.
He said he had wanted to “see if I would get kicked out” because he could “pass” as a person of color – the lone qualification for access to The Bridge under the activists’ accepted demand.
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The activist response to the hanging of bananas around campus, marked with “Harambe” and the initials of a historically black sorority, “makes me embarrassed to be a part of the university,” the alumnus said:
I’m not sure why they think that solving hate (or alleged hate in this case) with more hate and discrimination is a good solution. That’s all aside from the fact that the school is putting a bunch of snowflakes into the real world who won’t stand a chance after being coddled like this.
He wondered if the same outrage would have followed the hanging of bananas identifying the university’s College Republicans.
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American University has yet to respond to Fix queries this week asking to clarify what the university promised the black student activists in practice, including whether the university vowed to remove any whites who tried to access The Bridge.
It has also not answered whether the administration has formally removed the “sanctuary” designation from The Bridge, or if black student activists have laid claim to the space through the summer, until it begins coffee and food service in the fall.
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