Posted on 04/05/2015 10:59:46 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
A diversity training session for the Army turned into a lecture on “white privilege” Thursday.
The Equal Opportunity briefing, which was presented to approximately 400 soldiers in the 67th Signal Battalion in Fort Gordon, Ga., garnered attention after a photograph of a PowerPoint slide of the presentation was posted on Facebook.
The slide, titled, “the luxury of obliviousness,” states, “[R]ace privilege gives whites little reason to pay a lot of attention to African Americans or to how white privilege affects them.” It adds, quoting, “To be white in American [sic] means not having to think about it.”
The quote appears to be from James Baldwin, as referenced in sociologist Allan G. Johnson’s book, “Privilege, Power, and Difference.” The popular book teaches readers how to examine the implications of their privilege.
Cpt. Lindsay Roman, a spokesperson for the Army, told USA Today the presentation material was not authorized and not part of the standard presentation. The Equal Opportunity instructor, instead, chose to incorporate the topic of white privilege into the presentation.
On Facebook, people expressed outrage over the inclusion of the topic of white privilege. Some individuals even joked that they would file an Equal Opportunity complaint against the Equal Opportunity course, pointing out hypocrisy of singling out white people.
As a result of this situation, Roman said, “To prevent further instances, all unit instructors will receive additional training on the importance of following Army EO training requirements.”
This is not the first time a discussion of white privilege has made its way into Equal Opportunity material. The Equal Opportunity Advisor Student Guide, which was used to train Equal Opportunity instructors during a 3-month course at Patrick Air Force Base, also explicitly discussed the topic of white privilege. The manual was provided through the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute, which is affiliated with the Department of Defense.
According to USA Today, Army officials are currently investigating the matter at Fort Gordon.
But we are constantly reminded about it. Being White means being harassed by those who see it as the so called enablers of inherent racial oppression.
I don’t get it. Lefties constantly depict blacks as too cool to hardly stand being in the same room with crackers. Then when it serves them they cast them as too stupid to get on with life in spite of all the stupid crackers. Which is it?
The blacks I think gave them this priviledge. They ALWAYS tried to break into their neighborhoods, their beaches, their clubs. Why don’t they raise their neighborhood SOCIAL capital and make everyone want to be THEIR neighbor...
They haven't thought that far ahead yet, but it is a good question.
You quoted me out of context.
Oh, I know. My post (#17) was not an attempt to correct you. I just wanted to make the point that this "white privilege" nonsense is now spreading to the schools. And while a soldier might be able to see it for what it is, a student might not. Sorry for any confusion!
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Soldiers Were Lectured On ‘White Privilege’ At Equal Opportunity Briefing
"They're not fooling anyone."
Unfortunately they are. - Not at the army bases, but in the schools. - They are deliberately feeding this dangerous mush to impressionable kids.
I'm not talking about "diversity training". - I'm talking about "white privilege" presentations. - It confuses the white kids, and makes the black kids angry.
Check out article, and comments.
These seminars do more damage than help.
Seems to me that it leads to anger in some communities where none existed. With all of this training and indoctrination we’re getting, some of it forced fed, doesn’t anyone wonder why race relations are at an all time low in this country?
If nothing else, this movement is simply stirring up anger from all involved
Ah, the Obama Manifesto.
Direct quote from the “Party for Socialism and Liberation”
“To this day, the Manifesto inspires revolutionaries the world over to struggle for the overthrow of the rule of capital. From Venezuela and Colombia and across Latin America, with the red banner still raised high by revolutionary Cuba, from the Philippines to Palestine, from the belly of the beast of U.S. imperialism, the closing words of the Communist Manifesto still ring clear:
“Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.”
http://www.pslweb.org/party/why-socialism/2b-the-communist-manifesto.html
Paid for by the working capitalists.
I was just wondering if these anger inducing white privilege indoctrinations weren’t producing veterans who will in fact be noted and tracked so that when called upon, they will shoot the privileged civilians.
When does this white privilege stuff start? I’m still waiting.
How about the rare sane black person who doesn’t let his brothers’ grudges dictate what he should think?
Black handicap is 99% self-accepted in modern USA. This is not a skin problem. This is a sin problem.
Not if they get shot first.
Chuckling.
I actually imagined myself as a young grunt, sitting there in horror at this shameful leftist indoctrination. I would have been too embarrassed for words.
This kind of below-the-radar indoctrination has been reported before, two years ago on FR where the subjects were National Guard troops. We called it out then, and here it is once more.
Civilian LEO's already have this "Us vs. Them" mentality - the active duty troops will, as well, when these blocks of instruction go mainstream without challenge.
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