George Wallace was governor of Alabama for a total of 16 years, though not all sequentially. He served from 1963-1967, 1971-1979, and 1983-1987. He gained national notoriety for taking a stand (literally) against integration of the schools and universities of Alabama, even personally standing in the doorway of a classroom building of the University of Alabama to block black students from entering in 1963.
In his inaugural address that year, Wallace spoke the words that would come to mark his legacy: "I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny... and I say ... segregation today ... segregation tomorrow ... segregation forever."
Let it be noted that Wallace was a Democrat for all 16 years of his multiple terms. He died at age 79 in 1998. And now, in 2017, in keeping with the segregationist tradition and antebellum values of the George Wallace wing of the American Left, we have this:
The new Director of Multicultural Student Affairs at North Carolina State University recently pledged to create a segregated housing option for “women of color” only."Microaggressions.? Don't you love that? These students' precursors never suffered "microaggressions." They suffered macroaggressions - they were beaten, harassed, roughed up physically and their families were threatened. They were openly cursed and treated with vile contempt - and that was on a good day.
Nashia Whittenburg, who was hired by NC State less than a month ago, shared her plans to create the housing option for female minority students in a university news release published Tuesday, adding that she plans to submit an official proposal for the housing option by February 2018.
"Here is your opportunity to get some support and to deal with some of the microaggressions."
“The point and purpose is if you are a Latina and you are an engineering major, with a very specific specialization, you may not ever see anybody who looks like you,” Whittenburg explained. “But when you come home, here is your opportunity to get some support and to deal with some of the microaggressions you might have had to deal with throughout your entire day when you’ve been at class.”
And they put up with it, indeed forced the issue, in order to break down barriers, not create them, to move physically and morally into the mainstream of American life, not withdraw from it.
While NC State already has two housing options for racial minorities—one exclusively for black males and another for Native American students—the school does not currently have one for female racial minority students, hence Whittenburg’s proposal.
It's a thing, apparently, and is being protested (and hopefully sued) at the University of Connecticut by the New York Civil Rights Coalition.
Stacey Dash has some pointed comments at Patheos.com.
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