Bill Bennett is racist, but not these folks

No white women allowed.

On Sept. 25, the Women's Studies and Graduate Consortium at Northeastern University in Boston held a public on-campus meeting called "Breaking Bread: Women of Color Dialogue." White women were barred.

No racism here! Nope.

The SGA demanded that no student be denied entry to a public, on-campus event because of skin color. This was not merely a moral stand but also a demand that the university-sponsored event comply with the university's non-discrimination policy. (Exclusion on the basis of gender seems to have raised no comment.)

Bah! Such policy stipulations don't apply when people of color are putting on events.

Rather than cancel the event, Dr. Robin Chandler — director of women's studies and an organizer of the event — cracked the door wide enough for white women to walk through. Only one attended — a senator from the SGA. Her presence was obviously meant to make the point that students cannot be excluded from campus events due to race.

In NU, Northeastern's student newspaper, Chandler described her response to allowing a white woman to attend.

"I welcomed her anyway, in addition to telling the audience to conduct themselves with integrity even though the presence of a white woman was unwelcome," she said.

"But I'm not racist," she quickly added.

Chandler continued, "I think it's a shame that one or two white students based on white privilege, a lack of awareness of racial issues and a lack of generosity of spirit complained to the office of the provost and were able, because they were white, to gain admission to the morning session that I was forced to open up."

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Nevertheless, attendees said they would feel "threatened … if white women were present." White women, they claimed, could not understand issues like prostitution and truancy.

"Again," she stated, "I'm still speaking as someone who isn't racist."

Come on! Don't people know that only whites can be racist? When colored people exclude whites, that's not racist. When colored people say white people are "unwelcome," that's not racist. When colored people say they are "threatened" by the presence of white people, that's not racist. When colored people say white people can't understand certain issues because of their skin color, that's not racist. Nope. Not in the least.