So you're a college student, and you don't want to live with roommates of a particular race because they give you the creeps?

Transfer to Pitzer College!

The Claremont Independent, a conservative student magazine at the Claremont Colleges, a consortium of elite schools, including Pitzer, in Southern California, reported this:

A group of students at the Claremont Colleges are in search of a roommate for next year, but insist that the roommate not be white. Karé Ureña (PZ ’18) posted on Facebook that non-white students in need of housing arrangements should reach out to either her or two other students with whom she plans to live in an off-campus house. The post states that “POC [people of color] only” will be considered for this living opportunity. “I don’t want to live with any white folks,” Ureña added.

Dalia Zada (PZ ’18) expressed concerns to the anti-white discrimination. “‘POC only?’ Maybe I’m missing something or misunderstanding your post, but how is that not a racist thing to say?”

“This is directed to protect POC, not white people. Don’t see how this is racist at all…” responded AJ León (PZ ’18). Sara Roschdi (PZ ’17), a Pitzer Latino Student Union member, stated, “People of color are allowed to create safe POC only spaces. It is not reverse racism or discriminatory, it is self preservation.”

“We don’t want to have to tiptoe around fragile white feelings in a space where we just want to relax and be comfortable,” commented Nina Lee, a Women’s Studies major. “I could live with white people, but I would be far more comfortable living with other poc.”

“We don’t want to have to tiptoe around fragile white feelings in a space where we just want to relax and be comfortable,” commented Nina Lee, a Women’s Studies major. “I could live with white people, but I would be far more comfortable living with other poc.”

“White people always mad when they don’t feel included but at the end of the day y’all are damaging asf [as f*ck] and if a POC feels they need to protect themselves from that toxic environment THEY CAN! Quick to try to jump on a POC but you won’t call your friends out when they’re being racist asf,” noted Terriyonna Smith (PZ ’18), an Africana Studies major and Resident Assistant (RA) for the 2016-2017 year. “I’m not responding to NO comments and NOPE I don’t wanna have a dialogue.”

The last time we read  about college students not wanting students of a different race on their premises because they wanted a safe space was…oh, right, James Meredith. Those Ole Miss students who bounced basketballs above Meredith's dorm-room ceiling while he tried to sleep at night undoubtedly just wanted to feel "more comfortable" sticking to their own kind.

Speaking of uncomfortable, Pitzer President Melvin Oliver, a sociologist whose field is racial inequality, obviously wasn't very happy about the Ku Klux People of Color Klan posting, issuing this statement:

While Pitzer is a community of individuals passionately engaged in establishing intracultural safe spaces for marginalized groups, the Facebook post and several subsequent comments are inconsistent with our Mission and values. …

So here is Oliver's solution:

Pitzer offers its new 2-course Intercultural Understanding requirement and dedicates new curricular and extra curricular programming to address difficult issues of racism, diversity, community discourse and national and international political conflict.

In short, forcing Pitzer students to waste college credits sitting through a year of "intercultural Understanding" brainwashing. How about simply issuing a statement declaring that there's to be no housing discrimination at Pitzer based on race, color or creed? That's how it's done in the outside world.