By
Walter Williams
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What would you think if your 8-year-old came home and told you that
"white privilege is something that white people have, meaning they have
an advantage in a lot of things and they can get a job more easily"? You
would have heard that at the recent 15th annual White Privilege
Conference in Madison, Wisconsin, attended by 2,500 public-school
teachers, administrators and students from across the nation
(http://tinyurl.com/lkoqj9b).
The average parent has no idea of the devious
indoctrination going on in classrooms in many public schools. What
follows are some of the lessons of the conference.
In one of the workshops,
"Examining White Privilege and Building Foundations for Social Justice
Thinking in the Elementary Classroom," educators Rosemary Colt and Diana
Reeves told how teachers can "insert social justice, anti-racist
information" into their lessons that "even little kids" can understand.
Kim Radersma, a former high-school English teacher,
hosted a session titled "Stories from the front lines of education:
Confessions of a white, high school English teacher." She said that
teaching is a purely political act and that neutral people should "get
the f—- out of education." (http://tinyurl.com/q5adt2d). She also
explained: "Being a white person who does anti-racist work is like being
an alcoholic. I will never be recovered by my alcoholism, to use the
metaphor. I have to every day wake up and acknowledge that I am so
deeply embedded with racist thoughts and notions and actions in my body
that I have to choose every day to do anti-racist work and think in an
anti-racist way" (http://tinyurl.com/q4z969q).
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But the propaganda and lunacy go even deeper.
Jacqueline Battalora, professor of sociology and criminal justice at
Saint Xavier University, informed conference participants that "white
people did not exist before 1681. Again, white people did not exist on
planet earth until 1681" (http://tinyurl.com/lkoqj9b). That's truly
incredible. If Professor Battalora is correct, how are we to identify
William Shakespeare (1564), Sir Isaac Newton (1642), John Locke (1632),
Leonardo da Vinci (1452) and especially dear Plato? Were these men
people of color, or did they not exist?
John A. Powell, a University of California, Berkeley
law professor, told his audience, "And right now, I'm going to suggest
to you that race is driving almost everything that's happening in the
country." He explained the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans by
saying, "They took money away from protecting the levees because the
levees were protecting black people."
Stephanie Baran's message to conference participants
was that capitalism is the cause of racism in the world today. This
adjunct professor at Kankakee Community College,
who calls herself a vulgar Marxist, added that racism was invented in
Colonial America by white capitalists as a tool to divide labor and keep
the working class in their place.
Educator Paul Kivel explained what he sees as
Christian hegemony, saying, "Very simply, I define it as the everyday
pervasive, deep-seated and institutionalized dominance of Christian
values, Christian institutions, leaders and Christians as a group,
primarily for the benefit of Christian ruling elites."
Speaker Leonard Zeskind — according to the
MacIver Institute, which covered the event — explained that "the longer
you are in the tea party the more racist you become." He added, "Parents
put their kids in private schools because they're racist."
University of Iowa Professor Adrien Wing gave some
of her observations about white privilege, asking, "Does having a black
president change that? Has it changed that? Unfortunately, it hasn't.
... (President Obama) ends up being the front man for the system. ... He
works for the master of the system of white privilege."
I can't imagine people being stupid enough to
believe all that was said at the White Privilege Conference. There's
something else at work. I think it's white guilt. That's why, for almost
three decades, there has appeared on my website a certificate of
amnesty and pardon that I've granted to Americans of European ancestry
in the hope that they stop feeling guilty and stop acting like fools
(http://tinyurl.com/opd8vgd).
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