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What is cultural competency- and why does it sound so demeaning???

Student protesters take over UC Santa Cruz administration building w/ these demands:  1- Guarantee four-year housing for black students at the Rosa Parks building, which is marketed as a 'housing option for students interested in "historical, present-day, and future experiences of predominately Black/African American peoples,"' per the school. 2- They want that building/house to be painted red, green and black, the colors of black liberation. The house, in the middle of the Stevenson College ** -which is a predominantly white-serving college- is to become a matter of symbolism and visibility, because there are black students are on the campus who pay to go there just like anyone else and they feel they do deserve to be seen on the campus. 3- And lastly, they want the university to offer diversity competency training to incoming students. Let's start here: ** UC Santa Cruz has a distinctive residential college system in which all undergraduate students, whether ...