Blake Neff of the Daily Caller reports on one Midwestern university’s odd response to recent high-profile shooting incidents involving police.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) held a special healing session Monday for students to cope with recent racially-tinged events like the Dallas shooting and the deaths of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling. Ironically, these sessions were segregated by race.
“Today the Multicultural Student Center will hold open space for people to gather in community to process this past week’s events,” a Monday announcement on an official UW Facebook page said. “This is an opportunity to discuss, reflect, and support one another.”
But the opportunity to come together came with a notable quirk: Students in the community were split up by race.
“All are welcome and there will be affinity spaces for people of color and for white people,” the announcement said. The center held two distinct sets of “processing” meet-ups. First, two “processing circles,” one for white staff and another for non-white staff, were held in the morning, followed by racially separated “processing meet-ups” for students in the evening. No options were given for those who wish to have an unsegregated meeting.
