This morning Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. The protests are already underway in many places. I do not envy President Trump and the job he now faces. There is so much dissent in our nation and so many people that are just plainly wrongheaded. Case in point; Cal State Los Angeles’ so called “Special Interest Housing Community. “
I bring this up on Inauguration Day for two reasons. First, because it demonstrates the completely backwards thinking that President Trump and his supporters now officially face. Second, because five days ago was the anniversary of the birth of a man who lead a movement that also faced a similar backwards thinking. That man was Martin Luther King Jr.
Don’t get me wrong, I disagree with a lot of MLK’s politics. After all, he was socialist enough in his thinking that he could be considered a Maoist. However, he was an extraordinary man by any measure. He led an effective movement to bring civil rights to Black Americans at a time when they faced true discrimination. Unfortunately for him, he paid for that movement with his life when he was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee.
Fast forward to Fall of 2016 in Los Angeles, California. The Black Student Union of Cal State Los Angeles petitioned the university to create housing specifically aimed at housing primarily Black students. CSLA bowed down to this request by setting aside a small group of dormitory rooms to be primarily used for housing Black students. These rooms are not segregated in a literal sense; students of other races may apply for and live there too. Having said that, are they aimed at segregating Black students? Absolutely.
What is ironic and quite tragic is that Black students asked to be segregated. The Black Student Union at CSLA actually claimed they were subject to “racist attack.” These so-called attacks included, “racially insensitive remarks and micro-aggressions.” What a bunch of BS. Most of these dumb, spoiled students probably have no idea what a real racist attack actually looks like.
MLK and his peers grew up in a time when Black students could be beaten to death simply for walking into a certain college dorm, let alone apply for learning and housing there. Here we are almost 50 years after his death; Black students are whining because they cannot handle diversity or opposing opinion now that they have been given all the opportunities that MLK and his peers could literally only Dream of.
Part of the objective of going to college is to expose one’s self to different cultures and opinions. Doing so grants incalculable life experience and social skills, if one keeps an open mind. All MLK asked of his opponents during his struggle was to keep an open mind. 50 years later, Black students in California are willing to close their minds; they want to live, learn, and socialize only with those of similar background and thought as them. I dare say that MKL would tell them, “shame on you!” MLK died so that these spoiled brats could have the opportunity to achieve higher learning and expose themselves to varied cultures and life experiences.
CSLA is not the only university in California offering such a quasi-segregated housing feature. Stanford and University of California Berkley, both allegedly universities of great liberal thinking, have similar “themed communities.” What a crock of crap. It doesn’t matter if students of all backgrounds have access to such communities (thereby allowing universities to deny they are segregated). What matters is there are students, and apparently officials, who feel the need for such communities to be established. This is the type of backwards thinking facing President Trump and his supporters nowadays.
I look forward with hope for the future of the United States but with the realization that it will come at some cost. Things will always get worse before they get better. The cry babies will go out and riot and protest under the guise of freedom of speech. Yet, if you disagree with them, they will either trample on your freedom of speech, or they will go hide in their “safe spaces” and “themed communities.”
Is has only been a few hours since President Trump made his inaugural address and already the liberal media is making the asinine comparisons of President Trump to Adolf Hitler. Meanwhile their liberal followers riot in the streets. This is the kind of back-ass-wards thinking which has become prominent in the United States today. The election of President Trump is a step in the right direction but there are clearly a lot of mouth breathers out there working against us. The struggle has only just begun.
~AD
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