[Altura Ct.]

Thus we see that the 2014 White Privilege Conference will sponsor such workshops as "White on White: Communicating about Race and White Privilege Using Critical Humility," or "Our Bodies Know the Way: Using Cellular Wisdom to Dismantle Whiteness and Live in Deep Community." And then there is "White Women: Internalized Sexism and White Superiority." Then the important "Climate-Change-Mind-Set: Replacing White Liberalism with Racial Justice As Our Communities Organize in Response to Climate Change." These, along with classes teaching educators how to propagandize to middle school and high schoolers, presumably were conducted at the Madison event.

[ilovesarah2012]

So they want blacks to run everything? Detroit comes to mind. You know what they say - “be careful what you wish for”.

[Antihero101607]

“The White Privilege Conference, held from March 25 to 29 in Madison, Wisconsin, is a conference geared toward educating the state’s teachers on how to destroy all that white power coursing through the school system.”

I see no satire tag, and this is April 1st. Perhaps this is not a day I should be reading or commenting on FR.

[Westbrook]

Whatever happened to MERIT?!

You know, judging people on the content of their character rather than the color of their skin?

What about achievement, accomplishment?

Oh, right, the current occupier of the White House could not have been elected if acheivement and accomplishment were any basis for the job.

[ransacked]

White folks discovered cures for all the diseases, built the greatest cities in the world, made it to the moon, are some of the best doctors/lawyers, composed the best classical music...need I go on? Shouldn’t they be celebrated?

[puppypusher]

White privilege.You know,Get your rear-end up,Go to work and pay everyone else’s bills.

[Ann Archy]

This is the EPITOME of RACISM!!! WHere is the “Just Us” Dept?? oh...never mind.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

Rather than being more like the successful, competent and intelligent, they want us to be more like them.

[Rich21IE]

This isn’t an April fools day joke. Actually, this is just the tip of a huge iceberg of a movement that has become nothing less than a business model. Search, (google) on some of the topics and you’ll find items such as this:
http://www.whiteprivilegeconference.com/pdf/WPC13_Program.pdf

This has to be one of the most amazing developments I’ve ever seen in my life time. They’ve even made up “terms”, or reference terms that sound like made up non-sense words: See for example, “Christono Mativity: The system of oppression which assumes Christianity as the norm,favors Christians, and denigrates and stigmatizes anyone that is not Christian. Equates Americanness with Christianity.”

See the vast number of books written on the topic by so-called, experts. This is a fricking INDUSTRY!

[artichokegrower]

I am privileged to have a wonderful wife and two great children who happen to be white. I am privileged to have a career I enjoy, worked hard to achieve and even though I am in my sixties I still work at 6 days a week. Oh by the way I am white. I am also privileged to pay more in taxes than probably 99% of those attending this conference. Yes I am part of the 1%. My grandparents were privileged to immigrate from Ireland, build the railroads from Minneapolis to Seattle and live in a sod house on the South Dakota prairie. If that’s privilege I’ll take it as it beats the hell out of being a self described victim.

[kcvl]

Sponsors:

YWCA
Gay Straight Alliance for Safe Schools
University of Northern Iowa
Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault
Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice
ATTIC CORRECTIONAL SERVICES
Diversity Action Team of Rock County
Diversity Center Gustavus Adolphus College
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Sinsinawa Dominicans, Inc.
S & J Consulting
Madison-Area Urban Ministry
City of Madison, WI
Groundworkis
Echo Valley Farm
The Wisconsin Conference of The United Methodist Church
Madison Area Diversity Roundtable
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Madison Area Technical College United Common Ground

http://www.whiteprivilegeconference.com/index.html

Sierra Club
Hackman Consulting Group
Race to Equity
LeaderShape
USAonRace
Forward Community Investments

[kcvl]

The Consortium of Equity Conferences (CEC) is a group of progressive, like-minded organizations unified through their common interest in promoting access and equity through educational programs and conferences. Each CEC member organization is dedicated to peace, equity, and social justice. The Consortium’s primary mission is to support, network and take action.

WPC 15 Keynotes

Jacqueline Battalora
Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Saint Xavier University

Daniel Beaty
Award-Winning Actor, Singer and Writer

Rosa Clemente
Activist, Journalist, 2008 Green Party Vice-Presidential Candidate
Doctoral student, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, UMASS-Amherst

Joe Feagin
Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M

John Powell
Professor of Law and African American Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law

Howard Stevenson
(BMTT Keynote)
Professor of Education and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania

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Racism Review
(Joe Feagin is a regular contributor to this blog)

Inheriting the Trade
(by Tom DeWolf)

Abby Ferber’s blog
on The Huffington Post

Kathy Obear, Ed.D.’s blog

Discussing Diversity

Dr. Warren J. Blumenfeld’s blog on The Huffington Post

POPSspot -
Power, Oppression, and Privilege in Sports

http://www.whiteprivilegeconference.com/index.html

2.It is not a conference designed to attack, degrade or beat up on white folks.

[kcvl]

Contact Us

Mailing & Shipping Address:

WPC
Attn: Marqita Jones
1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway
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Phone: 719-255-4766
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Email: mjones15@uccs.edu

Marqita Jones, UCCS Matrix Center Program Manager
University of Colorado Colorado Springs