Posted on 02/28/2016 3:11:14 AM PST by Altura Ct.
A professor at Calvin College in Michigan wrote a column accusing his students and fellow faculty members of being white supremacists for failing to accept the notion of “white privilege.” The professor also says Calvin College itself and the entire state of Michigan only exist because of said white privilege.
In late November, Calvin College endured a small scandal when swastikas and the words “white power” were found written on several cars using snow. Two students confessed to the deed, but their names, motivations and punishments haven’t been revealed, leaving open the possibility the stunt was a hoax or a poorly conceived prank rather than an act of hate.
But according to Joseph Kuilema, a professor in social work, the swastika incident is only one tiny part of the much greater problem of white privilege.
“What occurred was not an isolated incident, a freak occurrence in an otherwise loving and inclusive community,” Kuilema says in a column last Friday in Calvin’s school paper. “While few members of this community openly espouse white supremacy, many members of our community continue to deny white privilege. It must be clearly stated that those who deny white privilege functionally believe in white supremacy, whether they have the courage to write it on a car or not.”
Kuilema goes on to say both Calvin College and the entire state of Michigan are products of white privilege and white supremacy.
“White supremacy created slavery and Jim Crow, but when it was combined with its Calvinist cousin Manifest Destiny … it also created Michigan,” he says. “The land on which Calvin College sits was stolen from what our own Declaration of Independence termed ‘the merciless Indian savages’ by the Treaty of Chicago in 1821 … Calvin College would not exist without racism.”
Kuilema also expresses distress over a recent statement from college president Michael K. Le Roy, who stated all people are racist in some way. But Kuilema says that’s not the case, as only white people can be racist in America.
“I, Joseph Kuilema, am certainly a racist,” he writes. “As a white male, I benefit tremendously from institutions and systems that have been built by and for people like me. This is how the social sciences define racism, not as merely the product of prejudice, explicit or implicit bias, but a system of power based on the invention of the ‘white race’ by people in power.”
Despite Kuilema’s claim, his definition of racism is hardly the consensus definition, and instead is the subject of much debate even within academia. Legitimate or not, though, Kuilema forges ahead to cap his argument that much of Calvin College continues to espouse white supremacy.
“If, as a white person, you refuse to acknowledge [white] privilege, you are asserting that the game of life in America is inherently meritocratic, that it is a fair game, that those who try hardest win,” he says, before claiming this is obviously false due to phenomena such as white families having higher average wealth and and blacks having a higher incarceration rate.
“As a white person, you can choose to believe the game is fair,” he continues. “You can choose to believe that you have no privilege. You can see what happened on November 22 as the splinter in the eye of two misguided students. But if you do so, you ignore the plank. If the game is fair you are assuming that white people are simply better at it … You are assuming white supremacy.”
For a war, it is very badly fought. Had I been more accepting and less questioning of the poverty narrative that was instilled into me throughout childhood, I never would have become successful. Kids born into poverty are discouraged from doing anything with their lives--if they have big ambitions, they are told that they have no chance whatsoever of realizing those ambitions (the rich are holding them down, of course).
...America is inherently meritocratic, that it is a fair game, that those who try hardest win,” he says, before claiming this is obviously false due to phenomena such as white families having higher average wealth and and blacks having a higher incarceration rate.
This is pure leftist ethnic scapegoating and hatred. It does lead to racist discrimination rage and violence - black on white.
Why do they continue to get away with stoking racist hate and murder?
My white privilege consists of being ...
unable to get a job at the post office.
ineligible for loans from the SBA.
penalized by race during college application.
unable to form student associations that cater to my race.
ineligible for federal set-aside contracts.
the unwilling provider of support for useless eaters.
“After 2009, the Justice Dept stopped releasing all statistics of interracial rape. I wonder why?”
Since January 2015 the GOP majority in Congress has enjoyed the power to pass a law to force the Justice Department to release any statistics it desires. No such law has been passed. I wonder why?
This one is so easy it almost writes itself:
“Professor, put your money where your mouth is. Find the deed to your house, give it to the nearest Indian, and return to Europe immediately. Otherwise, STFU!”
Do facts give you head aches?.
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Nope, but idiots do.
Thanks for playing, Chumley.
Sounds like Professor Joseph Kuilema needs to go to a black run gulag to get his mind right...like living in Zimbabwe for a year. But maybe he’d be like Kathy Buckle and not learned much from Mugabe’s rule.
Well, obviously this professor of social work didn't take much world history. In all of man's civilizations since the dawn of the written word (and before), there has always be slavery. The Egyptians did it, the Greeks did it, the Arabs did it (and still do), the African tribes did it, the American Indian tribes did it, as did the Mayan and Aztec cultures.
In the history of the world there have been only two nations that have outlawed slave importation: 1) the British in 1807 and 2) the Americans in 1808. Fifty three years later, America was convulsed in a bloody Civil War that killed 600,000 of its citizens. One of the accomplishments of that war was to make slavery illegal in the United States. The post-war 13th Amendment (1866) to the Constitution reaffirmed the freedom of ex-slaves throughout the U.S. The 14th Amendment (1868) made ex-
slaves citizens of the U.S. The 15th Amendment (1870) gave ex-slaves the right to vote.
If “white supremacy” was the reason, how come those same original sinners voted with their blood to end this barbaric practice in the U.S.? Notice that Professor Joseph Kuilema is all excited about “white supremacy” and bigotry in the U.S., while real, authentic SLAVERY is still practiced in Muslim controlled areas of the world. This guy needs a serious reality check.
Your a team leader for sure.
Gee, thanks for that, Buttercup.
You know, I was a four sport Letterman in high school and a two sport Letterman in college, as well as Captain of both the football and track teams at.bothnlevels.
How perceptive you are. Very impressive.
Now, I suggest you go back to the bar and get back to work hustling BJs for beer money in LA King lot.
Don’t drink or smoke but you can play your game all you want have fun in utopia Captain zero.
And toilets? How come we white dudes never get blamed for toilets, electricity, automobiles, airplanes, tampons? Nothing, no blame what-so-ever for tampons. Is that one ours? I get confused.
Dude, what’s your major malfunction? Are off your meds again?
Quick, give me your location and I’ll call 911 for you.
Lord Almighty, it’s a terrible shame when inbred idiots such asbyou drink and blog.
Suggest you get professional help ASAP, Buttercup.
It’s true facts do give you head aches and you proved it.
Whatever, douche bag.
Go away.
How childish you must be a teenager too.
The best way for you to end this childish crap is to just shut the hell up and stop making comments. Kep in mind that you initiated this exchange, not me. I am simply responding back to your comments.
You initiated this exchange you were just asked a question about not dealing with facts in your statement now grow up and deal with and let it go.
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