I accuse...my father!
Loyola University-Chicago is expanding a controversial program that trains white students to become anti-racist, anti-supremacist White allies.
While the school has offered the Ramblers Analyzing Whiteness (R.A.W.) program in the past, the number of recruits will nearly double this year, according to Loyola, which hopes to recruit at least 25 participants, more than double the 12 students who participated in 2016.
“It’s time for white folks who get it to put in the work of ushering their white peers into the future.”
Unlike last years iteration of the program, this year graduate students are invited to join, as well, according to posts from the schools Multicultural Affairs Office to promote the events.
The program will hold seven workshops this semester to create an affinity space for self-identified white students to engage in dialogue surrounding racial issues.
Aimed to further awareness, knowledge, and skills, R.A.W. invites white students to begin the journey of operating in solidarity with others in an effort to work towards racial justice, the R.A.W. website states.
No prior knowledge of racial issues is required for participation as the program welcomes everyone from students with little exposure to concepts of white privilege to more advanced students who are active white allies in their communities.
During weekly meetings, students will explore topics such as Unpacking White Privilege, Oppression, Microaggressions, and Vulnerability. Upon conclusion of the program, participants will be required to develop an Action Plan they will use to educate the larger Loyola community through presentations, interviews, and workshops.
While the program is primarily marketed to white identified students, the application notes that students can be bi-racial or multi-racial with white heritage so long as they identify as white.
You may also identify as bi-racial and/or multi-racial, where you may come from a mixed-race, mixed-heritage family where some members identify as white, the website notes, but warns students that if they identify as bi-racial and/or multi-racial, please know that the R.A.W. experience will focus primarily on the exploration of whiteness.
Our office is proud to offer a brave space for self-identifying White students to explore their identities as it relates to race, Naseeb Bhangal, program coordinator for the Student Diversity and Multicultural Affairs Office, remarked. Joining this space will spark courageous conversations and inspire others to take action and create change.
Notably, as the program has faced widespread criticism and attention since its founding, it now includes a specific portion on its website dedicated to addressing such criticisms and offering testimony from students who stand by the program.
“I stand by this program, because people of color should not have to educate white folks about white privilege or systematic racism, wrote one anonymous R.A.W. facilitator from last year. It’s time for white folks who get it to put in the work of ushering their white peers into the future.”
I support R.A.W. because it helps white people become more comfortable and competent to talk about race and gives action plans for the journey to allyship, another remarked.
In addition to the R.A.W. program, Loyolas Multicultural Affairs Office is also selling t-shirts to help fund scholarships for DACA recipients, and will host an event on monument removals and reparations next week.
Campus Reform reached out to the university for comment, but did not receive a response in time for publication.
My son is a Residence Hall Director at a large state university main branch. He shares my political views so keeps quiet about politics. He has many gay and black friends at his school and tells me that they really appreciate that he treats them as just regular people and doesn’t try to come across as an “ally”, just as a regular guy. I suspect many so-called oppressed people on campus are as sick of this nonsense as the rest of us.
Zampolit or Kapo?
I’m confused. I thought all white people were born racist?
I can analyze things for them. It’s best typified in three little letters.
BLM
Begin with understanding how the Black Lives Matter crowd is the biggest and best example of racism in America and then move on to other liberal factions like the Congressional Black Congress. Then on to TV/movies/entertainment that glorify rap, thug cultures and black racism and so on.
But what process are these white students able to rid themselves of their white privilege so as to become anti-racist allies?
“Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.” Psalm 51
That verse apparently only applies to us white folks now.
The collaborationist wing of Obama’s private army. It won’t end well for them because, as soon as they’ve served their purpose, they’re gone. After all, they’re white. Not to mention, if they’ll turn on their own race, how can they be trusted?
They’ll probably be eliminated in a very gory way. I heard machetes are popular in Africa.
Why yes!
I’ve never been associated with the Racist, Democrat Confederates.
Jesuit stench is strong
When it comes to dehumanization, it is now mainstream to dismiss a persons knowledge and accomplishments because he is a f***ing white male. Violence against whites is openly celebrated in films such as Get Out. Whites, and only whites, are forbidden to identify positively with their ancestry, culture, or heritage, and are told never to act in their group interests. In mainstream American culture, whites are already dehumanized in that unlike every other group, they have no positive existence as whites. Their race is nothing more than the means by which they can be identified so they can be attacked.
This is a “catholic” school; until they fight the very real injustice of affirmative action, they can get their money elsewhere. If they think the “victims” will repay their kindness by filling the pews and coffers, they should come to my area in NJ and see just how little they give. We are watching dominoes fall as Americans leave or die off, and the “replacement American” Hispanics let the parishes and schools be auctioned off/rented out.