Posted on 05/04/2015 12:37:15 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A black sociology professor at Vanderbilt University is arguing that “white privilege” is to blame for last week’s riots and looting in Baltimore, Md.
The professor, Tony N. Brown, took to the op-ed pages of The Tennessean late last week to make the claim.
White people act “routinely to harm, demean, and damage black and brown people,” Brown wrote in Nashville’s main newspaper. These actions “explain the lofty levels of frustration and despair among black and brown youth
The professor, who has a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, cites other unrelated incidents as evidence of the riots after the April 19 death of Freddie Gray while in police custody. He recalls the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity members at the University of Oklahoma who sang a shockingly racist song. He also alludes to the white South Carolina police officer charged with murder for shooting at a fleeing black man eight times.
Brown then blames the white parents of the fraternity members “and others like them” for the racism of their white children.
Using a host of names blatantly implying maximum whiteness — including “Sarah,” “Liam,” “Chase” and “Katey” — Brown offers a blanket condemnation of white parents for sending children to “racially homogenous” schools and churches, living in predominantly white neighborhoods and failing to read children’s books featuring minority characters.
Brown blames white parents for telling “racially insensitive” jokes in front of children and allowing grandparents to use racial slurs “at Thanksgiving.”
Also, white parents inform their children “that all poor people are black and it’s their own fault,” Brown suggests.
“The bottom line is that it’s everyday whites making everyday choices that lock in and protect white privilege,” the Vanderbilt professor admonishes.
Brown’s solution to the problem of white people using “white privilege” to “routinely to harm, demean, and damage black and brown people” is for “people of color” to create a massive, grassroots surveillance network to capture video evidence of racism.
Use cell phones and GoPro camcorders to “record the discourteous way co-workers or service industry workers or police officers treat you,” Brown writes in The Tennessean.
“Record your friends talking about the indignities and micro-aggressions you as a person of color, for example, face in all- or mostly-white spaces,” the professor instructs. “If you happen to identify as white, then record Uncle Roy talking at a private family gathering about the good old days when blacks knew their place. Record how pleasant your interactions are with police officers doing routine traffic stops.”
“Then let’s all post our videos,” Brown declares concerning the vague last step in his racism surveillance scheme.
The price for one year of undergraduate tuition, room and board and mandatory fees at Vanderbilt is about $54,600 (not including a $704 “first year experience fee”). (RELATED: Fancypants $54,600-A-Year Vanderbilt Professor Will Teach Cop-Hating Course)
The concept of white privilege was popularized in academic circles by a 1987 essay entitled “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.” The author was Peggy McIntosh, an inconsequential white feminist. (RELATED: Tea Party Is ‘Bald-Faced Racists,’ White Privilege Conference Speaker Tells Sea Of White People)
Costing the student $54000. The perfesser probably makes double that.
Accusations of “White Privilege”
are the same as historical antisemitism.
Yeah, they know it’s getting old,
that’s why their changing it to “White Supremacy”.
Global warming became Climate change.
And instead of being “offended”, leftist groups are now claiming to be “threatened”.
Blacks cause the disproportionate percentage of crime, killings, muggings, car jacking etc.
Well, that’s just ‘cuz YT is defining those things to be wrong.
What are the actual qualifications for being a professor these days?
TWENTY TWO MILLION MILLION DOLLARS
Just for a reference,
one dollar is to a million dollars
as
one million dollars is to a trillion dollars.
And “the poor” have receive TWENTY TWO TRILLION dollars of other people’s money since the “War on Poverty” started.
"There are only two races. The decent and the indecent"...Viktor Frankel
FMCDH(BITS)
>> leftist groups are now claiming to be “threatened”.
There’s an advantage to their crying “Wolf!”
His racist ass should be fired.
Oh, exalted and enlightened one, Dr. Brown, please show me the error of my ways (I was educated in the public school system, hmm, just like you, except that my education didn’t include lessons about hating those with a different skin color):
1) Freddie Gray was a known drug dealer - how is it that white privilege had anything to do with that?
2) Most, if not all, of the rioters that I saw on television in Baltimore were black - how is it that white privilege has anything to do with that?
3) Three of the police officers that are charged in Freddie Gray’s death are black - what does white privilege have to do with that?
4) Three of the police officers that are charged in Freddie Gray’s death are white - what does white privilege have to do with that, especially in view of Item #3?
5) Who is the real racist here???
In his writings, it became clear he would have done so.
Until Booth decided to kill him, that is.
Don’t let the angry rant from this unassimilated contraband fool you; deep down there is massive resentment that they are beholden to whites for their most basic needs. Even with a kindred spirit in the White House, they won’t get much further than the boundaries of their welfare reservations if they want war. In my area, they won’t even get past the Hispanic buffers that encircle their urban cores.
Remember after Hurricane Katrina, when within a day or two of the storm those who remained behind starting wandering out of their homes looking for food? The same thing would happen in any “race war”, and the self-loathing professor knows it.
Here’s an interesting response to the author of this drivel:
http://www.fredoneverything.net/Ballmer.shtml
Not too long now before the shooting starts for reals. Probably this summer.
The concept of “white privilege” was invented by committed Communists who, after their friends blew themselves up in their Greenwich Village apartment building bombs to attack “the (imperialist) man”, decided it was better to worm your way inside the public psychology with degenerate pedagogy and infiltration of media.
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