Segregated Housing Is Not What Black College Students Need

Walter E. Williams

September 22, 2016 ge administrators and leftist faculty, the actual fate of black students is not nearly so important as the good feelings they receive from a black presence on campus.

Walter E. Williams

Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University.
Last year’s college news was about demands for safe spaces, trigger warnings, and bans on insensitivity. This year’s college news is about black student demands for segregated campus housing and other racially segregated campus spaces and programs.

I totally disagree with these calls by black students. It’s a gross dereliction of duty for college administrators to cave to these demands, but I truly sympathize with the problems that many black college students face.

For college administrators and leftist faculty, the actual fate of black students is not nearly so important as the good…