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Ida Bae Wells Summed up here with Citizen Chris & Entae.

Ida Bae Wells 60 years ago, White Mobs gathered to stop :

-a 9 yr old, #RubyBridges from integrating school in Louisiana
-Students from being allowed to be educated in white schools in Boston & other cities
- #JamesMeredith from integrating College in Mississippi

Today, instead they do this!

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Ida Bae Wells And this is at the state’s only land grant school, which already has rural white male learning communities (School of Ag) and even a fraternity called “The Farmhouse” … isufarmhouse.org

Ida Bae Wells Jackie Pepper ✊🏽☮️🌊😷 Not just that they need a space for them, but they need a space that isn't near any other spaces made for people that are not them. It's explicitly the exclusion of non-white thoughts or influence, framed as white inclusion in one of the whitest places in the country.

Ida Bae Wells Eddie S. Glaude Jr. Yup! As a white - 73 year old grandma - I am ashamed of my state. Diversity makes a stronger community! Equality helps get rid the “good Ol’ boy” syndrome of hiring and equality means my autistic grandson is given many more opportunities!

Ida Bae Wells Every DEI training that I've taken across multiple companies since 2020 has included white men. One training included citizenship privilege, socioeconomic privilege & ableism. I'm actually glad they are finally explicitly admitting that DEI to them means Black people.

Murray Rothbard II Ida Bae Wells Hogkillin' Jackson Because that’s never been the model. The default position was “give white people whatever they want” and that’s what it would go back to without any kind of representation requirements.

Ida Bae Wells OGBlack They were pushing back but you only care about that 13 second clip.

HerkyBrigade OGBlack No one is arguing a single thing that you want to argue against. We have to call the language out for what it is and what the actual facts reveal, because the anti-DEI campaign is at its root deploying propaganda to legitimize regressive, anti-Black policy.

OGBlack Ida Bae Wells So get fired and replace with someone 10Xs worse? Barb Wilson is a huge DEI advocate.

HerkyBrigade Ida Bae Wells So Nikole’s comment “but university presidents choose how they respond, what they say, whether they exhibit courage,” still stands.

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HerkyBrigade Iowa State is 83 percent white, and majority male, so again: Help me understand how white men didn’t have safe spaces to learn at the university. registrar.iastate.edu/sites/default/…

Ida Bae Wells It was about creating safe places for everyone. It was about making everyone welcome within the University. Unfortunately, that is how the discussion has to go within the political construct Iowa has become. If they don’t frame it that way they’d just replace her.

HerkyBrigade I know the GOP forced it, but university presidents choose how they respond, what they say, whether they exhibit courage. Would you like to contextualize her specific comments?

Ida Bae Wells It was a 13 second clip from a much larger discussion. It was highly edited. I got sucked in by the bait as well. The GOP led board of regents are forcing the Universities to do this. GOP led legislature passed laws this year forcing their hands.

Keep in mind: These are the folks claiming to be colorblind, claiming that DEI focuses too much on race, explicitly saying the real problem is white men in a university system that is at least 75% white in a state that is 90% white need a space that’s racially for them. It’s…