Notre Dame Professor Calls Covington Catholic An Example Of ‘Violent Manifestation Of Whiteness’

On January 25, during the University of Notre Dame’s "Walk the Walk Week," a six-member panel convened by the Meditation Program of the university’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies hosted an event called "Confronting Whiteness at Notre Dame: Power, Identity, and Exclusion."

According to the university’s independent Catholic student newspaper, the Irish Rover, the professor who moderated the event talked about forms of "violent manifestation whiteness," listing the debunked Covington Catholic School controversy as an example.

"The illusion of whiteness as related to racial categorization disguises what is actually important … namely, white is a description of both a political condition and a mechanism for the distribution of power," Professor David Anderson Hooker, a professor of the practice of conflict transformation and peacebuilding, said. "Where it has real relation to the concept of racism, the two don’t squarely overlap."

Hooker noted that the "kind of whiteness that we’re investigating isn’t that kind of repulsive, violent manifestation of whiteness" like "the kind of Richard Spencer, Milo Yiannopoulos, Ann Coulter, Steve King, Charlottesville, Covington Catholic School forms," reports the Irish Rover.

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