An off-campus student housing co-op at UC Berkeley is going viral after someone leaked the co-op’s set of guest house rules — which bans white people from the common areas to “avoid white violence and presence.”
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UC Berkeley Off-Campus Student Housing Bans White People To ‘Avoid White Violence & Presence’
The co-op, which has been titled “Person of Color Theme House,” has five stories and offers 30 rooms for up to 56 selected University of California, Berkeley students.
It was set up by the Berkeley Student Cooperative to bring affordable “housing to low-income, first generation, immigrant and marginalized students of color” in the Bay Area.
In order to enter the building, a student must declare their race when signing in, and they must announce when they are bringing white guests into the building — which is looked down upon.
Now, the only reason things are this way is so that people of color can “avoid white violence and presence.”
The leaked photo of the house guest rules says:
“House members and rules should always be respected by all guests. Make sure your guests understand our house values and uphold the theme of the house, as you are responsible for their behavior.
Many POC members moved her to be able to avoid white violence and presence, so respect their decision of avoidance if you bring white guests.”
The housing also protects those in the LGBTQIA community and urges students to avoid brining family members that “express bigotry.” Additional rules listed read:
“Queer, Black, and Indigenous members should not have to avoid common spaces because of homophobic or racist parents/family members.”
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While the idea behind the housing and its controversial rules more than likely was meant well, the rules are clearly sparking outrage and leaving some students with a sour taste in their mouths, as they believe they are “too aggressive” and “defy the spirit of inclusion.”
One student, who is mixed raced, posed on Reddit, where the photo of the rules was leaked, that they lived at the house and that their “presence as a light skinned person was not received well.” They went on to claim that they were also called slurs.
They said, “[I] was not allowed to let my dad enter the house because he’s white.”
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