The media hasn't highlighted it much this week thanks to James Comey and Donald Trump (did anyone really reach any conclusions from those hearings anyways???), but the recent happenings at Evergreen College in the state of Washington are most certainly newsworthy. In case you didn't know, a student group within the college has been throwing a massive uprising because white students and certain professors refused to leave campus for a day of "racial exclusion" that occurred this past April.

Yes. You read that right: racial exclusion. The very people demanding equality are now breaking windows and screaming in the streets because they want to be separate. For years, Evergreen College has promoted a day of exclusion on campus. Titled the "Day of Absence," the college spends one day a year reflecting and celebrating the roles and influence of students and staff of color. Black students and teachers leave campus for an entire day of activities in order to demonstrate their richness of diversity and the skills they bring to the campus as a whole.

Up until this year, Evergreen's Day of Absence was highly anticipated and honored, but this is 2017, and oh how the tides have turned. A campus student group decided to make the request to have all white students and faculty leave campus for an entire day. Since the majority of this school is soaked in liberalism, there didn't appear to be any issues with this request. That is until a white professor decided that he would be turning his back to equality by removing himself from campus as desired. So he stayed, and the outcry was incredible.

The student group lashed out fairly quickly and demanded that the professor be fired. They also insisted that every white student who refused to leave be punished in some way. "Racism," the students of color cried, all while wearing an invisible sash of hypocrisy proudly across their chest. As the uprising continued to be fueled by the fire of angry students, the college president George Bridges felt obligated to shut down campus as a matter of security. Evergreen College was literally forced to cease from activity for multiple days because students of color wanted to separate themselves from everyone else.

I will never have the right nor desire to judge the black community as a whole, but I can look at what is happening at Evergreen College and shake my head in disgust (shaking my head IS a civil right, so don't even try to fight me on that). Racism isn't just a problem for people of color. No, it has spread far beyond that now. Black students want their white teachers to lose their jobs because they refused to spend time in racial separation. Separation. The word is ugly and cruel, but it seems to be what many at Evergreen want. My God, people, how long has this country been trying to engage in a battle against this exact problem?

Evergreen is very knowingly setting the tone for racial tension across the United States. If white people had demanded that black students leave campus for a day, there would have been violent war and fire in the streets. At Harvard University, black graduates recently held a separate commencement ceremony for themselves. What do you think would have happened if the white graduates held an all-white ceremony?

Black History Month is celebrated nationwide, but where is White History Month? It doesn't exist, and it has no need to. A black person can look me in the eye and say "oh my gosh you're so white," and it's given and received as a joke.

Try saying "dude, you're so black," and you might just end up with a black eye or a prison sentence. The problem is not that the black community wants to stand up and stand out; rather instead, it arises when black people start to demand separation to make themselves look better. Could black privilege be an actual thing? Well, yeah, I really think it could. If we are all equal, why does there need to be separate organizations, scholarships, clubs, days of absence, history months, etc.?

In closing, I have a few final words for Evergreen College and the student group so set on blatantly separating themselves from society: make up your damn mind. If you want inclusion, then please don't ask for exclusion. The words have totally different meanings.