Posted on 01/18/2016 8:41:34 AM PST by BridgeOutAhead
Portland Community College has designated April "Whiteness History Month" (WHM), an "educational project" exploring how the "construct of whiteness" creates racial inequality.
"'Whiteness History Month: Context, Consequences, and Change' is a multidisciplinary, district-wide, educational project examining race and racism through an exploration of the construction of whiteness, its origins, and heritage," PCC states on its website. "Scheduled for the month of April 2016, the project seeks to inspire innovative and practical solutions to community issues and social problems that stem from racism."
Whiteness "does not simply refer to skin color[,] but [to] an ideology based on beliefs, values, behaviors, habits, and attitudes, which result in the unequal distribution of power and privilege based on skin color." Tweet This
The WHM site makes clear that the project is not a "celebratory endeavor" like heritage months, but is rather "an effort to change our campus climate" by "[challenging] the master narrative of race and racism through an exploration of the social construction of whiteness."
whm-group@pcc.edu
I would wear a white t-shirt all month that just says FU on the front.
It’s like the racist, leftist pukes sense the end of their reign coming, and are giving their insane ideas free reign.
They should just have a big Jim Jones, Koolaid party.
But the idea of an unequal distribution of power and privilege based on personal effort and responsibility will never occur to them.
See my tagline.
Luckily, the school was funded by the state on the basis of class days that students were present. Most of the parents were pretty upset at the school district as well.
So the concepts in the education community are not new. What is new is that either enough time has passed for “educator/activists” to forget what happened or that the political climate has changed enough in Portland that they think this might actually work for them.
How truly sad for the students of all races who will be exposed to such nonsense.
“we’d like to teach the world to hate,
in perfect harmony.”
Paid for (largely) the by those we are teaching to hate.
Seems like this is designed to further racist stereotypes.
BTW, here’s a course we’ll never see at PCC (or anywhere else for that matter):
Portland Community College has designated April “Blackness History Month” (WHM), an “educational project” exploring how the “construct of Blackness” creates racial inequality.
“’Blackness History Month: Context, Consequences, and Change’ is a multidisciplinary, district-wide, educational project examining race and racism through an exploration of the construction of Blackness, its origins, and heritage,” PCC states on its website. “Scheduled for the month of April 2016, the project seeks to inspire innovative and practical solutions to community issues and social problems that stem from racism.”
Blackness “does not simply refer to skin color[,] but [to] an ideology based on beliefs, values, behaviors, habits, and attitudes, which result in the unequal distribution of power and privilege based on skin color.”
The WHM site makes clear that the project is not a “celebratory endeavor” like heritage months, but is rather “an effort to change our campus climate” by “[challenging] the master narrative of race and racism through an exploration of the social construction of Blackness.” (”Challenging the master narrative,” PCC explains, “is a strategy within higher education that promotes multicultural education and equity.”)
The initiative was conceived by a subcommittee of PCC’s Cascade Campus Diversity Council, which noticed that “evidence from hiring data, student-Âled research, surveys, focus groups, college-wide emails, and other sources have illuminated the underlying reality of Blackness embedded in the overall college climate.” In response, the subcommittee decided that “intentional action” was necessary across the district’s four campuses to honor PCC’s strategic plan, which calls on the college to “create a nationally renowned culture for diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
According to a sub-page defining the term (adapted from a definition developed by the University of Calgary), Blackness “does not simply refer to skin color[,] but [to] an ideology based on beliefs, values, behaviors, habits, and attitudes, which result in the unequal distribution of power and privilege based on skin color.”
Not only does the concept of Blackness allow those who are “socially deemed Black” to accrue benefits, the page asserts, but those benefits “are accrued at the expense of people of color, namely in how people of color are systemically and prejudicially denied equal access to those material benefits.”
The ideology of Blackness, it continues, dates back to “at least the seventeenth century, [when] ‘Black’ appeared as a legal term and social designator determining social and political rights,” a concept that eventually grew to include “thousands” of “special privileges and protections” for Black citizens.
For those interested in learning even more about the study of Blackness, PCC provides a link to a portal on the school library’s site listing additional resources.
Perfect!
My dad thought that those who lived West of the Cascades and the Shasta's were brain damaged. Weather and Water were the problem.
I'd wear these to class in protest, with a sign reading, 'Doesn't get Whiteness'
100% TRUE. Those beliefs, values, behaviors, habits, and attitudes are:
Finishing high school
Going into the military, or college, or trade school, or finding a job
Getting up early each morning and going to that job or those classes
Arriving on time
Arriving on time
Arriving on time
Arriving on time (needs to be emphasized for Certain People)
Going to the job every day
Every day!
If going to college, avoid stupid majors
Avoiding crack, meth, weed, and nutella (damn Euro-addictoid)
Avoiding any other activity that will land you in jail
Not having children out of wedlock
Not spending all of your income on booze, cigarettes, bling, athletic designer wear, or any other non-essential
Not falling prey to credit cards
Not buying more car or house than you can afford
I could go on, but this is a basic list. Those whites who follow the list do indeed obtain a comfortable life, unless some bizarre and random disaster strikes, and if they set aside a little money for insurance (instead of adding to the Coach purse or Nike Air Jordan collection) they usually survive pretty well. Those whites who don't adhere to these beliefs and habits usually end up "disadvantaged and disenfranchised" along with everyone else who doesn't.
None dare call them racist.
The term “racism” was invented by communists. Leon Trotsky was one of the first to use it. When whites engage in favoritism toward other whites (and therefore discrimination against non-whites), it’s called “racism”. When other groups engage in favoritism, it’s called “ethnic solidarity”. When you buy into these word games, it’s called being a useful idiot.
Racist is an interesting word, after all who are the real racists? A person that loves their race, is proud of all it’s accomplishments, wants to live with their own kind and preserve their heritage? Or is a racist someone that is trying to destroy someone’s heritage through mass foreign immigration, diversity, multiculturalism and race mixing?
They must have meant "blackness".
Portland Community College, is Oregon’s answer to Southern University.
It is, and was when I lived there in the ‘90’s, the ‘also-ran’ college of the area.
As to public and taxpayer monies being received by this, ahem, institution, yes they are.
Lots of possibilities here to highlight how ambition, quest for improvement, dedication, reliability and parental loyalty and guidance make a difference in how a culture grows and achieves.
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