Michigan college inanely fights racism by encouraging segregation

Published September 13, 2020 5:43pm ET



The University of Michigan, Dearborn, last week showcased two concurrent events that encapsulate almost everything wrong with the Left’s approach to issues of race and higher (supposedly) education. It also shows again how pitiful are the tender sensitivities of too many of today’s college students.

Indeed, the mere language surrounding the events reeked of such outlandishly “woke” jargon as to be an unintentional self-parody of overly fragile, grievance-mongering pseudo-intellectuals in the throes of delayed adolescence. The two events were encouraged to be racially segregated, cafe-style discussions, one for students who are “BIPOC,” meaning black, indigenous, and people of color, and one for “Non-POCs,” apparently meaning a whiter shade of pale.

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