School that teaches ‘white guilt’ class will re-examine curriculum

Capture“If you’re white, you’re oppressing. If you’re non-white, you’ve been a victim.” That is how one parent described a class that her son and other students were required to take  at a high school in Wisconsin.

FOX News’s Todd Starnes reports that Delavan-Darien High School will re-evaluate the course, titled “American Diversity,” which is to designed to promote white guilt and foster non-white resentment.

In a typical field assignment, students were instructed to visit the toy aisle of a local Wal-Mart and count the number of dolls representative of blacks and compare the number with that representative of whites.

Reading materials included a passage from a book title “White Privilege,” that includes the following:

In critical race theory, white privilege is a set of advantages that are believed to be enjoyed by white people beyond those commonly experienced by non-white people in the same social, political, and economic spaces (nation, community, workplace, income, etc.). Theorists differentiate it from racism or prejudice because, they say, a person who may benefit from white privilege is not necessarily racist or prejudiced and may be unaware of having any privileges reserved only for whites.

Another handout, this one from University of Texas professor Robert Jensen, argues that people don’t have complete control over their fate:

There is not space here to list all the ways in which white privilege plays out in our lives, but it is clear that I will carry this privilege with me until the day white supremacy is erased from society.

Brendan Pringle, of the conservative Young America’s Foundation, called the course “race-baiting,” adding:

[It] offers a snapshot of a larger trend that has plagued university curriculum for years and has only recent crept into high school classrooms. Professors and teachers are increasingly telling white students that they are part of the problem of racism, and are telling black students that they are second-class citizens. This race-baiting technique is an attack on American values and can only breed bitterness and envy.

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Friday, January 18, 2013 at 10:49 AM

3 comments

  1. Keep the class. Academic freedom, etc. Just balance it out. Teach a course “Black Crime and Culture in America: The Social, Political, and Economic Consequences.” It’s way past time to educate this spoiled rotten demographic how their present history impacts America more than their past history.

    Steven

  2. critical race theory

    “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

    “If you’re white, you’re oppressing. If you’re non-white, you’ve been a victim.” That is how one parent described a class that her son and other students were required to take at a high school in Wisconsin.

    That’s exactly right. It’s not more complicated. It’s that, wrapped up in endless rationalization.

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