Cornell University created a special rock-climbing course for “people of color,” reports indicate.
The “BIPOC Rock Climbing” class has since been slightly altered following backlash, but it was originally restricted to “people who identify as Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, or other people of color” – meaning no whites allowed.
The course, which costs $1,890 – this includes the standard one-credit course cost of $1,575 plus an additional mandatory $315 “course fee” – was branded and marketed as a way to get more dark-skinned people involved in the sport of climbing rocks.
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Campus Reform reached out to Cornell to ask about the racially discriminating class, the school quietly changed its description to state that it is: