They’re creating enclaves of whiteness,” said Chad Dion Lassiter, a social worker, lifelong Philadelphia resident and the president of Black Men at Penn School of Social Work, an alumni network. “When communities of color can’t come to your library, can’t come to your lawn, when you situate security booths around the perimeter of your campus and keep people out … you’re dismantling a community to create a university as a community.
