Racism is racism no matter how you slice and dice it

Lawrence Edward Hinchee
3 min readAug 21, 2022

Is this the 1940’s or is it 2022? If a private co-op tried to create a similar housing that banned persons of color the NAACP would have filed a lawsuit so fast that the property would have shut down. If you try to have anything that is similar to Black Entertainment Television for whites again the NAACP will file a lawsuit for inclusion. But what I am reading out of the University of California, Berkeley smacks of racism. How can it not? In his article they refer to the student who are persons of color pays to have a place to stay that is free of white people violence. I am not understanding this at all. I thought we had done away with Jim Crow, separate but equal and I thought the anti-discrimination act of 1964 did away with this bull shit? I thought the civil rights act put an end to this crap.

The UC Berkeley People of Color themed student cooperative home, which bans white people from ordinary spaces, has a troubled history of discrimination and neglect, according to the students.

However, the house was ‘founded on pillars of cross-cultural exchange, academic and professional support, and anti-harassment/cooperation,’ student Manduhai Baatar said, adding that it has operated counter to those ideals during a tumultuous past.

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Lawrence Edward Hinchee

I am a published author. Book Titled Silent Cries A Memoir. I am a writer, photographer and author. I write under the pen name Brent Seheult. I also read a lot