Posted on 02/27/2015 3:17:21 AM PST by Altura Ct.
For over half a century America has struggled to improve race relations and progress is modest, at best. But optimism soldiers on although failure only seems to breed desperation. A recent New York Times article recounts the latest crackpot panacea. The article tells how wealthy white children enrolled in some of New York City’s toniest and expensive private schools are being detoxified of their poisonous white racism. The message is that these youngsters must develop “anti-racist thinking” as a skill, a competency necessary for the 21st century. It exaggerates only slightly to compare this process with Maoist self-criticism where people publicly confessed to crimes, many imaginary, and then admit remorse as the first step in “voluntarily” embracing the party line.
Typical was a daylong session (“A Day of Concern”) at Manhattan’s upscale and largely white Friends Seminary where speakers lead the workshop discussion about social justice and its relationship to racial/ethnic identify, gender, and most of all, privilege and power. According to Derrick Gay, a professional diversity consultant who led the discussion, the exercise was to help students escape their racial/ethnic “bubble” that hinders them in a global society. Mr. Gay explained that everyone has an identity, for example, lesbian or Jewish and society does not value all identities equally. But that is nobody’s fault -- you just must be aware of the inequality.
Elsewhere comparable elite schools held discussions, often in all-white groups, about unearned (white) skin privilege, white racism and dominance. A particularly hot topic is white micro-aggression -- how whites unconsciously, often with the best of intentions, repeatedly harm people of color, for example, compliment black students for a high test score that would not draw praise if the student were white. Some schools send students to the annual White Privilege Conference where they examine privilege...
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I’m sure their pin headed, liberal elitist, rich and guilt ridden parents are proud.
They should be careful about exposing wealthy whites to others; it will probably lead them to believe in racial superiority rather than convince them of any flaws in their mindset (which may have been naively open-minded).
For all of the attempts at indoctrinating racism out of young people, real-life experiences and “The Maury Show” will expose the truth.
I guess they’re not familiar with a phenomenon know as “backlash”.
what on earth is a diversity professional consultant?
Amazing there are people out there making a ton of money by spouting crap
Proving once again that anti-racism is nothing but code speak for anti-white. And how conservatives fall for that BS that the left is morally superior is beyond me.
Hey... maybe they can do something like create programs to promote unqualified non-whites over whites. Maybe they can call it ..hmmmmm.... (snaps fingers) call it AFFIRMATIVE DISCRIMINATION ...no...AFFIRMATIVE ACTION! Yeah, that'll be the ticket.
Non-whites won't have to study or work as hard as whites and will get automatic promotion in many areas of life that most whites have to actually legitimately qualify for. Yeah, that'll fix things for the better. (snicker)
This must be an occupation recruiters try to fill at job fairs. Maybe companies hire head hunters that specialize in this line.
How much experience do you require before anyone will consider you for the job?
It is just a way to fit unskilled ethnic minorities into the economy. A lot of affirmative action jobs seem designed to simply lure unassimilated minorities away from breeding.
>>how whites unconsciously, often with the best of intentions, repeatedly harm people of color, for example, compliment black students for a high test score that would not draw praise if the student were white.
So now it was White Privilege that caused us to elect a completely unqualified black man president?
I really really doubt these particular kids ride subways
yes FYI, tuition at Friends is $38k/year
no subway or bus riders here. limo/private car all the way.
“Anti-racism” these days means anti-white.
Wrong! I ride the subways at 3pm and the trains are loaded with rich white kids - as well as black kids from the public schools. Trains are the fastest way around town, clean, air-conditioned and (generally) safe.
Maybe a way to create jobs for all those black studies and ethnic studies majors who have no real job skills. It could all be considered part of the growing Racial Grievance Industry.
Well, for starters grasshopper in NYC there are several flavors of elite private schools and academies. The upper east side tends towards preppy dress and even they use buses for the most part or walk simply because the subways don’t serve the immediate area of school and residence.
One of the sadder things I saw in Manhattan was the cluster of four miniature prepies, all under four foot loaded with backpacks slung over their blazers, trying to co-ordinate some kid time activity. ALL four had their little Daytimers out trying to find some free time amenable to all. Lot of head scratching..
At the other end you have the ultra liberal from the West Side and Downtown who dressed pretty much like street people albeit in freshly cleaned outfits. Trains and buses, again because of proximity to schools and residences.
This observation held true for the three plus decades of my stay in NYC.
Suburban schools are of course quite different but travel modes are the same for public and private. Parent drop off, car pool, and school buses. At HS level some areas alllow student vehicles for either segment.
When my eldest son was 13 and we were in Boston area church shopping, we attended a liberal church where the sermon was on the topic of the minister having attended a weekend racism retreat. He proclaimed that he was shocked to discover he is a racist.
My son whispered, “He’s lying.” The kids are not all stupid.
Also, remember that like Brooklyn, the train has become super hip in NYC. I was astonished to find my snooty brother traveling by train! He always used to take cabs and would become enraged if he was forced onto a bus.
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