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'We are an atmosphere that cultivates a community free from tokenization, filtering, or exploitation,' group promises

White students are excluded from a new art club this year at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill called "Earthtones." According to a Google form for sign-ups, the club is:
"An atmosphere that cultivates a community free from tokenization, filtering, or exploitation. We're creating a living, breathing, network of artists of color to explore creative expression and learn from each other."
Member Eliyambuya Baker told The Daily Tar Heel:
"I think the idea of Earthtones is just to celebrate the brown people in our community and just pay homage to the beautiful color spectrum we create."
The no-whites-allowed club has sparked an interest in creating other groups that shut out white people.

Tar Heel reported:
"Inspired by the organization, [executive member Ye-Bon] Hong, a dramatic arts major, eventually wants to start her own theater company consisting entirely of people of color."
The group is a "safe space" for "artists of color" the campus newspaper summarized Lucienne Boileve, another member, as saying:
"While the organization is one of several art-centric clubs at UNC, Boileve said that it is difficult to express oneself as a person of color in other clubs or spaces that are predominantly white."
UNC is not the only campus to host programming that excludes white people, all in the name of diversity.

Arizona State University hosted a theater event called "The Color Cabaret" that excluded white actors. Only after publication of The College Fix story did ASU come out and try to claim it was open to anyone. However, a campus news release included a quote that would clearly tell white people they were not welcome:
"My hope for the cabaret in the future is to always be a space safely held and reserved for any BIPOC students in the music theater program."
Harvard University officials also tried to downplay their role in a no-whites-allowed seminar hosted on campus. The "No Labels Academy" aimed to help non-white individuals break into the music industry.
About the Author:
Matt Lamb has previously worked at Students for Life of America, Students for Life Action and Turning Point USA. While in college, he wrote for The College Fix as well as his college newspaper, The Loyola Phoenix.