The Off-Campus Housing Cooperative for Students at UC Berkeley prohibits whites from entering public spaces to "avoid white violence." This has sparked criticism that the policy fosters racial tensions.
says his five-story, 30-room "Person of Color Theme House" near the school declares race upon sign-in and brings white guests into the building. When you have to announce House rules leaked to his Reddit.com.
“Many POCs moved here to avoid white violence and presence. please,” declares the rule. "White guests are not allowed in public spaces."
This building houses up to 56 students a few blocks from the university also urges students to avoid bringing family members who "express prejudices." College Fix.
“Queer, Black, and Indigenous members are not required to avoid shared spaces because of homophobic or racist parents/family members,” says the rule .
The building was commissioned by the Berkeley Student Co-op to provide affordable housing for "low-income, first-generation, immigrant, and marginalized students of color" in the Bay Area. was established in
However, some rules sparked outrage, with students saying they were too aggressive and went against the spirit of inclusion.
One mixed-race student who claimed to have lived in the house said that "their presence as fair-skinned persons was not well received" and was called a slander.
} "[I] was not allowed into the house because my father is white," the student wrote on Reddit.
Another former member wrote in a Medium article that the house had a reputation for an aggressive "call-out culture" and "lack of intersectionality." It is written that
According to the Daily Mail, Janet Gilmore, the university's senior director of strategic communications, said the house "is not run by the campus" and that "it is not the campus' role to comment." .
School theme The program has a policy as claimed in the Reddit image, and which states, "In line with UC and campus policies, we do not discriminate based on race."
"Because this involves an off-campus non-affiliated landlord, the campus does not have the ability to discipline the landlord under the Student Conduct Code," she said.
University officials did not immediately respond to the Post's request for comment on Friday.
