Berry College in Rome Discriminates Against Asian-Pacific Peoples--Part I
Targeted Racism at a “Woke” College in Floyd County
Everyone with a brain knows it’s Asian Pacific American Heritage month in the United States, but Berry College celebrates this month instead by hosting an event on the Experience of Black Professionals in Corporate America.
Why?
Said another way, the Asian American Pacific Islander community (or just the AAPI for short) “ain’t gettin’ no love” from Berry. The African-American celebration concerned itself with the Black professional experience as narrated by Araya Mesfin, Mairo Akposé Simpson, and Marcus Yates—all qualified voices for such an event. But in all fairness, why wouldn’t Berry College narrate corporate American experiences from an AAPI perspective, especially in the month of May? Why couldn’t the elites at Berry save the Experience of Black Professionals in Corporate America for February 2022?
Why would the elites at Berry College marginalize a group of people?
Why?
Again, why?
And still again, why?
Berry College is the worst kind of “woke” as it practices the worst kind of discrimination—namely selective discrimination. This type of discrimination favors one minority over another, all the while ignoring the accomplishments and experiences of the unselected group. As such, Berry thrives on intersectionality as the institution loses more and more of its soul in the ethers of “wokism.”
Wonder what the new dean in the Evans School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences might say? There’s a pretty good chance nothing—a nothing burger—as the AAPI experience has nothing to do with the “Ñ.” What’s that line from Lear, Mister Dean: Nothing will come of nothing. Speak again. Why isn’t the new dean leading a charge to include the AAPI experience? Why isn’t the Campbell School of Business—a cohost of the event—leading a charge to include the AAPI experience? Why isn’t the Berry Center for Personal and Professional Development—a cohost of the event—leading a charge to include the AAPI experience? Why isn’t the Student Diversity Initiative—a cohost of the event—leading a charge to include the AAPI experience? Why isn’t the Black Student Association—a cohost of the event—leading a charge to include the AAPI experience? Does this mean that Berry—like Harvard in Boston—is excluding the AAPI community from admissions into the college? Are the grades of the AAPI community too high for Berry College?
These are fair questions because they reflect the character and whims of a community, albeit an isolated, insular, toney group of academic blue bloods—excluding of course the food service worker, the facilities crew, public safety, etc. This type of discrimination falls at the feet of the Berry College power structure, and may they be damned—figuratively of course—for their arrogance and exclusion.
Hey Berry, if you gonna talk it then walk it because when it’s all said and done, it’s pretty simple—Berry College be a hatin’ it would seem.