Posted on 11/11/2015 9:38:17 AM PST by rightistight
In a scholarly article published in Teaching Education, Professor Cheryl Matias calls whiteness "a disease," while suggesting new ways to teach urban students about "racism and whiteness."
Dr. Matias is an assistant Professor at the University of Colorado at Denver. Her article, Why do you make me hate myself?: Re-Teaching Whiteness, Abuse, and Love in Urban Teacher Education, was published in Teaching Education this year.
In her article, Matias writes that teachers must address "normalized, oppressive Whiteness," saying that a "colorblind" society cannot truly exist in the United States. "Despite silently acknowledging that race plays a role in" achievement gaps, writes Matias, "the study of race, racism, and exertions of Whiteness are rarely recognized as a substantive issue in teacher education and the teaching profession."
Racism and whiteness are diseases that need to be addressed, she continues, writing, "We cannot even begin to address symptoms, such as the racial achievement gap, if we do not address the underlying diseases of racism and Whiteness."
There isn't even an argument that white supremacy exists, Matias writes, saying she won't even bother to prove the concept during her paper.
"This article acknowledges White supremacy as an overarching system of white Western racial domination, which manifests globally," she explains. "We are all operating under the system of white supremacy."
Teachers must examine their own "whiteness," Dr. Matias argues. "As the only person of color in the room," she explains, "I am often left with the pain of being denied a racial reality. Thus, the cycle of abuse is a pyrrhic victory, one where the pain and tears of whites override my own pain."
Indeed, she writes, "DiAngelo (2011) argued that white fragility plays an essential role in the maintenance of Whiteness and when unfettered, the consequences can be dire."
Education has been biased in favor of "whites," Dr. Matias goes on. "Teacher education - replete with a majority of white stakeholders who write the curricula, program frameworks, assessments, and standards - has permitted Whiteness to become a white enterprise.
“Worse yet, some white teachers and teacher educators co-opt and redeï¬ne theories ï¬rst conceptualized by scholars of color who were resisting the hegemonic oppression of Whiteness,†she continues. “In using their white ocular to ï¬lter out the most radical parts of these theories to ï¬t within white color-blind comforts,the essence of their conception is lost.â€
In the end, "Once teacher education understands how and why whites have become culturally white, it can engage in a deeper conversation of race and racism, move beyond guilt, anger, and denial needed to become whole-heartedly antiracist."
She should get off her @zz and proclaim General Race War, right now!
The 13% versus the 87%. Let’s get it on!
No wonder everyone is tuning out. The haters can’t get their ideology straight beyond heads I win, tails you lose.
“In her article, Matias writes that teachers must address “normalized, oppressive Whiteness,” saying that a “colorblind” society cannot truly exist in the United States.”
But no, that can’t be right because all you race baiters say this:
http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2011/12/is-being-colorblind-just-another-form-of-racism/
I just don’t give a rats anymore.
When I hear this sort of crap, I make a mental note that I’m prepared and sworn to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
I didn’t know my being white is as bad as having a malignant disease. I blame my father and mother for making me white, plus I blame climate change. Hillary said a day or so ago, that climate change helped cause the wars going on in the middle east, so everything that happens can be blamed on climate change - even my being white.
I can’t change my being white so I now have PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder). I need to take some pills for this and drink alcohol with them so I can escape for a while from this terrible feeling that I am destroying everyone who isn’t white.
This damn climate change destruction has got to be stopped.
The above is sarcasm except this Dr. Matias doesn’t realize climate change is the root of all evil.
An absurd collection of rationalizations for an effort to redefine reality, penned by someone who is obviously very deeply committed to the Egalitarian/Collectivist war on reality, is not a "scholarly article."
Right. Because black racists just won't quit banging the black racist drum all day long. It's all they know how to do. They sure don't produce anything of value.
Anyone willing to argue that liberals do not belong in cages?
Eventually we embrace Existential Gage Theory or we will be eradicated like a ‘disease.’ They are rather open about it. We should be likewise. Tell them straight up. “You belong in a cage and if you continue, you will be put in one.’
If Whiteness is a disease, and a disease is a disability, then i want free stuff and I want to be on Social Security Disability!
DAG NABBIT!
Sexually transmitted, too.
Putin and Trump, not ashamed of being white.
It worked to create blackface in 1947 when Mother and classmates put on a Minstrel Show for her high school class. Oh, how I savor telling that bit of political incorrectness these days...
It’s time for whites to start being just as rotten as they’re constantly accusing us of being. Let’s show them what “racism” really looks like! We’ve been giving, giving, giving; cowering, pleading, and capitulating for decades, and they still hate us. What have we got to lose?
And the cure for this “disease” is - what?
Could we just allow those who suffer from too much “whiteness” to pay an annual tax, jizya, like the world of Islam allows the dhimmi to do?
Is that what is what’s coming for the world?
Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. She is jealous of the achievers and producers that outclass her. Such envy is the basis of Liberalism.
Cage Theory Ping.
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