USC has Jewish groups and black groups. Will it get a safe place for white people to hang out?<\/p>\n
From The Los Angeles Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n “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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n * How would you like an African American heritage house on your block? As opposed to a Jewish\/Chinese\/Korean\/Latino\/Islamic heritage house?<\/p>\n Friend: “Saw a bunch a black people turning a historic house into a mosque the other day though.”<\/p>\n Susan: How would you like an Aussie moving in to your neighbourhood and setting up a humpy?<\/p>\n * 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" USC has Jewish groups and black groups. Will it get a safe place for white people to hang out? From The Los Angeles Times: When some USC student government leaders voiced support for creating a cultural house for black students, … Continue reading