The University of Wisconsin is offering a course this spring on the “Problem of Whiteness,” which is taught by a radical assistant professor who believes America is a terrorist state.I'm old enough to remember when classifying an entire group of people by their skin color, and calling them a "problem", was considered racist.
The course will cover institutional racism and “what it means to be #woke"...
“Have you ever wondered what it really means to be white?” the course description states. “If you’re like most people, the answer is probably ‘no.’ But here is your chance!”
“In Frantz Fanon’s famous White Skin Black Mask (1952), his chapter ‘Look, a Negro!’ interrogated the meaning and experience of coming to know oneself as Black under the constant scrutiny of the white gaze,” the course description continues. “It is an experience concomitant with W.E.B. Du Bois’s observation that under systemic racism, even well-meaning whites are constantly asking, in one way or another, ‘what is it like to be a problem?’ But, Like Richard Wright’s quote above, philosopher George Yancy’s book, Look, a White! (2010), turns the question around, and rightly returns ‘the problem of whiteness’ to white people. After all, since white supremacy was created by white people, is it not white folks who have the greatest responsibility to eradicate it? Our class begins here.”
The course is part of “Critical Whiteness Studies,” and will attempt to offer solutions to the “problem of whiteness.”
Ties in nicely with this post.
The problem is that taxpayers only indirectly pay for this stuff, and many of them are sold on the idea that college education = successful.
ReplyDeleteAll it takes is for alums to stop endowing chairs in radical areas. Put that money into engineering or other solid programs. Rant like hell via social media when you oppose what you see as official oppression of ANY group in the name of political correctness.
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