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originally posted by: ketsuko
I wonder if Rudy Martinez, of the Your DNA Is an Abomination OpED, is their keynote speaker? Sounds like he'd fit right in.
“When I think of all the white people I have ever encountered – whether they’ve been professors, peers, lovers, friend, police officers, et cetera – there is perhaps only a dozen I would consider ‘decent,’” student author Rudy Martinez writes in the University Star.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: seasonal
This conference and that editorial, just further proof that we crossed over from equality into vengenace a long time ago.
originally posted by: bladerunner44
a reply to: seasonal
booth 15 "maffs is raciss" A university professor actually asserted this. Well not exactly in those words, I took some Ebonics liberties.
originally posted by: seasonal
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: seasonal
This conference and that editorial, just further proof that we crossed over from equality into vengenace a long time ago.
Agreed.
Whiteness seen as an automatic racist is what Professor Moon is shooting for.
originally posted by: Tempter
Imagine your life is so consumed by hate that you actually create an event to celebrate it.
These events are just like the KKK gatherings.
originally posted by: seasonal
More of the same. This time 14 posters detailing how whiteness in America oppresses people of color and society. Luckily whites are not part of society right?
www.thecollegefix.com...
SAN MARCOS, Calif. — A “Whiteness Forum” at Cal State San Marcos on Tuesday prominently displayed 14 poster boards detailing different ways in which students say whiteness in America oppresses people of color and society.
For 15 years and “going strong,” this annual forum has taken place as a part of Professor Dreama Moon’s “Communication of Whiteness” course, the scholar said as she kicked off the two-hour event inside a large multipurpose room.
At noon there were performances by students in the class. These students in a very expensive college expressed their frustrations with whiteness.
Professor Moon looked on and smiled, and encouraged the crowd to interact with the frustrated students and learn about white supremacy.
The forum kicked off at noon with two spoken poems performed by students in the class who took the opportunity to express frustration with whiteness.
One of the performers, a female African American student, called Africa “the greatest country in the world, where we all once originated.” Her poem went on: “On a daily basis I am seen as a threat, but you get a pass because you’re white.”
“I am an African American and by my people and country I stand,” she continued. “I identify not with the equality of America, but with the ‘We The People.’”
Another student’s poem offered similar sentiments: “Whiteness thrives on the hate of everyone. Realize we are all pawns in this chess game. Every day is a day to challenge whiteness.”
As the young women spoke their poems with passion, Professor Moon, who is white, stood nearby and watched with a smile. After the performances, Moon encouraged the crowd to interact with her students and learn about “white supremacy.”
One of the 14 poster board exhibits pointed out the fact that some tv and movies have actors that are cast white that should be black.
Another poster board labeled “Whiteness in the Entertainment Industry” depicted different films and television shows in which white actors had been cast in roles that some believe should have been portrayed by people of color. The students also accused Hollywood of stereotyping, citing as an example Sophia Vergara’s “hypersexualized” character on “Modern Family.”
One student who is objectively looking at this got it right, this is racist.
Writing It White and Asian Does Not Start With A+ are a few of the names of the 14 poster exhibits. Divide and conquer.
“The event is racist in itself,” she said in an interview with The College Fix, pointing out that if the forum was dedicated to any other race in the same way it was dedicated to whiteness there would have been a huge outrage.
The titles of the 14 booths were: “Anti-Racist Discourse in Mental Health,” “Whiteness in the Entertainment Industry,” “Writing It White,” “Asian Does Not Start With A+,” “Colorism,” “Confederate Monuments,” “It’s Not Us, It’s Them,” “White Supremacy in Government Representatives,” “Redlining,” “The Spin,” “Got Privilege,” “No Human Left Behind,” “Puerto Rico & Whiteness,” and “Build Bridges Not Walls.”
More of the same from the very fortunate college students that are frustrated. I hate to break it to these "kids" (young adults) that almost everyone is frustrated at their age.