Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Mich., is sponsoring a "White Privilege Conference" next month where students, educators, and others will be empowered and equipped “to work for equity and justice through self and social transformations.”
Conference participants will discuss “how white privilege, white supremacy, and oppression affects daily life while giving strategies for addressing issues of privilege and oppression and advancing social and economic justice.”
According to the event's website, examples of white privilege include: “Being able to … assume that most of the people you or your children study in history classes and textbooks will be of the same race, gender, or sexual orientation as you are; assume that your failures will not be attributed to your race, or your gender; not have to think about your race, or your gender, or your sexual orientation, or disabilities, on a daily basis …”
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2 comments:
History is studied, for one reason among several, to learn about accomplishments and those who did the accomplishing.
Reality means nothing now??
It must break their heart that a bunch of white guys created the most unique country on Earth.
The list is rather long and has a lot to do with what the world looks like today. Good and bad.
Just quit playing us with that "muslims made this country great" and women won the Civil War, or ANY of that fake, feel-good BS being taught to make kids (and adults) feel good about themselves.
That would be a different class, not History.
It might be a reason that college grads have trouble passing a sixth grade
year-end test from 75 years ago. BUT, they feel great about themselves. Dumb. But arrogantly dumb.
Keep cheering.
Please help me find my white privilege, I never received mine.
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