Brickbat: Separate but Unequal

The Staff, Faculty
and Administrators of Color of South Puget Sound Community College
not only did not invite any white colleagues to a scheduled happy
hour meeting, they explicitly excluded
them. “If you want to create space for white folks to meet and
work on racism, white supremacy, and white privilege to better our
campus community and yourselves, please feel free to do just that,”
said an email sent by the group to college employees. After media
picked up the story, the group canceled the meeting, and the
school’s dean of college relations called it a mistake. But Karama
Blackhorn, program coordinator for the school’s Diversity and
Equity Center and co-author of the the invitation, says only that
the email could have been worded better.