UC Berkeley Accused of ‘Systemic Racism’ for Allegedly Banning White People from California Community Farm Co-Owned by University
The Gill Tract Community Farm, which is co-owned by the University of California- Berkeley, has allegedly banned White people from their farm on Saturdays, designating the day exclusively for use by ‘Black, Indigenous, and People of Color’ (BIPOC).
A complaint was filed with the US Department of Education by the Mountain States Legal Foundation (MSLF), with some criticizing the move as an example of ‘systemic racism.’
According to their website,” The UC Gill Tract Community Farm is a collaborative community project between the University of California Berkeley and the local community, focused on issues of food justice and urban farming. It is located in Albany, CA, at the corner of San Pablo Ave and Marin Ave. It is an urban farm where you can come and harvest food for yourself and your family in exchange for help with weeding, planting, and watering. It also hosts a sliding-scale farmstand and partners with several East Bay community organizations and food pantries to distribute fresh organic produce to those who lack access to it.”
William Trachman, general counsel for MSLF, told The New York Post, “UC-Berkeley thinks that racial segregation is progressive now, but it’s no different than segregation of the past.”
MSLF’s complaint includes an email from a farm program manager telling someone, “Saturdays are exclusively BIPOC. Exceptions have only been made for events that are BIPOC-centered and with plenty of advance notice and planning.”
“Preventing Caucasians from accessing Berkeley’s College of Natural Resources Farm on Saturdays is a clear violation of Title VI, which bars educational institutions from engaging in or allowing race discrimination,” added Trachman, a UC-Berkeley alumnus himself.
He said the feds should open a sweeping audit of every UC-Berkeley program to ferret out what he claimed was “systemic racism.”
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The complaint includes an email from a farm program manager telling someone, “Saturdays are exclusively BIPOC. Exceptions have only been made for events that are BIPOC-centered and with plenty of advance notice and planning.”
“I trust you stand in solidarity with upholding boundaries around that safe and sacred space,” the farm manager said.
A UC-Berkeley rep told The Post they were not aware of the discrimination complaint until contacted by the outlet.
UC-Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof told The Post, “The anonymous texts attached to the complaint have no specific information about time or place. And, as you can see, the Gill Tract’s website and calendar make no mention whatsoever of any program or activity of the sort described in the complaint.”
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