{"id":123013,"date":"2021-02-10T09:47:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T14:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=123013"},"modified":"2021-02-10T09:58:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T14:58:00","slug":"elon-university-hosts-white-caucus-meeting-to-unpack-systemic-oppression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-university-hosts-white-caucus-meeting-to-unpack-systemic-oppression\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon University Hosts \u2018White Caucus\u2019 Meeting To \u2018Unpack\u2019 \u2018Systemic Oppression\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felon-university-hosts-white-caucus-meeting-to-unpack-systemic-oppression%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=123013&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/White-Supremacy-Sign.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Elon University is slated to host a weekly \u201cwhite caucus\u201d meeting for white students to \u201cunpack race and systemic oppression.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to a letter obtained by the<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yaf.org\/news\/elon-university-hosts-urgent-whites-only-caucus-to-process-complicity-in-racism\/\"><span>Young America\u2019s Foundation<\/span><\/a><span>, the North Carolina university\u2019s school of education will put on a white-only caucus every Tuesday night.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cA white caucus is a space for white-identifying individuals to engage in conversations that unpack race and systemic oppression,\u201d the email reads. \u201cWhite caucuses allow white-identifying [sic] allies to have these conversations in a way that does not burden or re-traumatize people of color.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhite caucuses give white people a space to learn about and process their awareness of and complicity in unjust systems without harming their friends of color.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The caucus was branded to students as a coalition of white people serious about rectifying past racial injustices. It described white caucusing as \u201cone part of a lifelong and multifaceted commitment to antiracism for white-identifying people who are passionate about racial justice.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to a Google Form obtained by the Young America\u2019s Foundation, interested students were required to sign a confidentiality agreement stating that they would not share the content of meetings with an outsider. This includes recording, taking photos, posting about the group on social media, and even \u201ctalking negatively about others outside of the caucus.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Racially segregated events on college campuses have increased in the name of racial justice. Many of the events claim to be \u201csafe spaces\u201d for people of color to avoid hearing white voices that may offend them. A 2019<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nas.org\/storage\/app\/media\/Reports\/NeoSeg%20at%20Yale\/NeoSegregation_at_Yale.pdf\"><span>report<\/span><\/a> <span>from the National Association of Scholars discovered numerous instances of campuses segregating residence halls, commencement ceremonies, cultural centers, alumni groups, and classes on the basis of race.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>At the University of Florida, Ph.D. students in the anthropology department<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yaf.org\/news\/u-florida-department-bans-white-students-from-virtual-town-hall\/\"><span>hosted<\/span><\/a> <span>a segregated virtual town hall that barred white students from attending. At the University of Kentucky, Resident Assistants were<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yaf.org\/news\/university-of-kentucky-forces-ras-into-segregated-trainings-white-accountability-space\/\"><span>separated<\/span><\/a> <span>into two training groups. \u201cOne for RAs who identify as Black, Indigenous, Person of Color, and one for RAs who identify as White.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Even smaller universities have succumbed to the pressure to racially segregate. A satellite campus for the University of Michigan<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/09\/10\/university-of-michigan-dearborn-apologizes-for-segregated-virtual-cafes\/\"><span>hosted<\/span><\/a> <span>segregated online student \u201ccafes\u201d intended to spark discussions about race. One was for students of color and the other was for \u201cnon-person of color\u201d students. The university has since apologized.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Such events have drawn the attention of the federal government. In Oct. 2020, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AK) and former Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA)<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/cotton-asks-justice-department-to-investigate-racial-segregation-on-college-campuses\/\"><span>penned a letter<\/span><\/a> <span>to the Department of Justice calling for an investigation into racially segregated campus events.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Both the University of Michigan-Dearborn and the University of Kentucky were listed in the letter.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The two Republicans wrote that they believe schools that host racially segregated events may be violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits racial discrimination at taxpayer-funded institutions.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon University is slated to host a weekly \u201cwhite caucus\u201d meeting for white students to \u201cunpack race and systemic oppression.\u201d\u00a0 According to a letter obtained by the Young America\u2019s Foundation, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893068,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4870,4249,4997,4470,6122,4861],"class_list":["post-123013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-caucus","tag-elon","tag-hosts","tag-meeting","tag-oppression","tag-university"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}