USC has Jewish groups and black groups. Will it get a safe place for white people to hang out?
When some USC student government leaders voiced support for creating a cultural house for black students, Ama Amoafo-Yeboah thought that she and other undergraduates were closer to having a space where they could hang out and hold events.
But before a vote was held, word spread that the house could be located on the Row, USC’s two-block stretch of fraternities and sororities near 28th and Figueroa streets. Social media lit up.
“Why would they open a prison on the Row?” one user asked on Yik Yak, a popular social media app that allows anonymous comments from users within a 1.5-mile radius.
* How would you like an African American heritage house on your block? As opposed to a Jewish/Chinese/Korean/Latino/Islamic heritage house?
Friend: “Saw a bunch a black people turning a historic house into a mosque the other day though.”
Susan: How would you like an Aussie moving in to your neighbourhood and setting up a humpy?
* After congratulating the Mexican for the second time today on Cesar Chavez day, I told him that I considered him white and he gave me a strange look because he evidently considered himself Mexican and not white, even though he looks white and he sounds white and acts white. I thought I was giving him a compliment but I don’t want to commit cultural genocide.
