Dr. Minor.
Posted on 07/18/2006 12:19:23 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
My university recently announced the appointment of Dr. Tamra Minor as our new Associate Vice Chancellor of Institutional Diversity. Dr. Minor said her appointment illustrates that the entire university leadership is now serious about the commitment to diversity and the promotion of a “culture of inclusiveness” at UNC-Wilmington. I respectfully take issue with her socially constructed interpretation of reality.
As a preliminary matter, this Associate Vice Chancellor of Institutional Diversity position is not actually a new position at all. The name of Dr. Minor’s old position of Director of Campus Diversity was simply changed to sound more important. Her previous salary of $84,000 hasn’t changed either. She’ll do the same job for the same money despite making this grand statement in a university press release:
“(M)y major focus will include identifying strategies to enhance the culture of UNCW by assisting students in developing the intellectual, social, emotional, cultural and civic capacities essential to lead in a global economy.”
Dr. Minor’s statement that she will help students develop the “emotional capacities” that are “essential” to lead in a “global economy” could not be further from the truth. Directors of “diversity” - or even “institutional diversity” - always have the opposite effect on minority students. Without fail, they encourage minority students to be hypersensitive and, thus, deprive them of the emotional maturity needed to function in any economy, global or otherwise.
In my experience, the more money a school spends on “diversity initiatives” the more minority students complain. And, sadly, this also causes non-minority students to walk on eggshells around them. This, in turn, produces a form of accidental segregation, which only serves as a supplement to the university’s intentional segregation. In fact, this intentional segregation is one of exactly three unstated goals of the diversity movement:
1. To promote racist discrimination. 2. To promote non-racist discrimination. 3. To promote racial separatism.
I am fairly certain that every reader knows the meaning of racial separatism. But the distinction between racist and non-racist discrimination is not widely understood. The former is any initiative that seeks to increase minority presence on campus by lowering standards for minorities, usually blacks.
For example, in a recent press release, UNC-Wilmington made reference to Dennis Carter - an associate vice chancellor for Academic Affairs - who has been instrumental (in the school’s opinion) in supporting efforts on behalf of minority students at UNCW through programs such as “Great Expectations.” Often, when diversity initiatives make mention of “great expectations” they are simply concealing the fact that the initiative actually sets lower expectation for minorities. I classify these initiatives as “racist” forms of discrimination because they so often reinforce notions of black intellectual inferiority. This is both tragic and counter-productive.
But other forms of discrimination have nothing to do with racism in the purest sense. For example, initiatives that seek to retain minority faculty members - by paying them much more than whites – do not reinforce truly racist stereotypes. But this minority hush money does prove that affirmative action is no longer necessary.
Remembering these three goals of diversity helps achieve insight into why Dr. Minor was hired for this “new” position. It wasn’t because she is bright (though she is). It wasn’t because she is a nice person (though she is). It wasn’t because she’s attractive and skilled socially (though she is both). She was given this job simply because she is black.
Put simply, the diversity movement at UNCW, which advances racism, discrimination, and segregation, is there for the benefit of white college administrators who are seeking career advancement. But, since their agenda so closely resembles the agenda of the racist opponents of the civil rights movement in North Carolina fifty years ago, these white opportunists must find a black person to oversee the operation.
That is another way of saying that the new Associate Vice Chancellor really was not hired to promote institutional diversity. She was hired to expunge white guilt and to deflect potential accusations of racism.
I predict that under the protection of Dr. Minor, UNC-Wilmington will expand drastically upon at least two of their three unstated goals of diversity in the coming year. First, I predict that they will further their agenda of racial separatism by applying it to the ever-growing population of Hispanics in the Wilmington community. Within the next year, I expect UNC-Wilmington to break ground on a new Hispanic Student Center. The prediction isn’t that bold, given that the university has already started to write separate university brochures – written in Spanish, of course – for potential Hispanic Students.
Second, I expect that in the next year UNC-Wilmington will significantly lower admissions requirements – both SAT scores and Grade Point Averages – for incoming Hispanic students. And they will continue to do so every year to try to keep the university’s Hispanic population proportionate to Wilmington’s Hispanic population.
I also predict that after taxpayer-supported segregationist and racist policies grow out of control for a few years, the sensibilities of the public will finally be offended. When this happens, the university will finally have to reverse direction and undo some of the damage created by funding a movement based upon a notion (diversity) that no two people seem to be able to define the same way.
Since the diversity movement had to be implemented by a black PhD, maybe a white PhD will have to dismantle it. If I’m right, some day I’ll be the new Chancellor Emeritus of Institutional Diversity. Maybe one day, I’ll be tearing down “colored” signs that hang above water fountains. And, perhaps some day, I’ll restore the legacy of a man named Dr. King.
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Sometimes good things come out of no where, take heart. At my Alumni, they had to fire all the mulitcultural peer advisores. Their job was to act as an interpreter between people of different cultures. Completely worthless. I never met anyone who needed them. All they ever did was play sub. RA. They were all as left wing as left wing could be and if you were a WASP, you are wrong by default.
Dr. Minor.
This sounds like something the Nazis dreamed up in their twisted terrorism under Hitler. The idea of splitting the blacks and hispanics from the whites is part of their "divide and conquer" mentality. This is our future? God, help us.
hmmmm...hired to creat and promote division and dissent...thereby creating a "need" where none previously existed?!!typical lib shenanigans...the only problem being is that nobody on the board of trustees is acting responsibly and showing leadership by shutting this down. As a nation we cannot promote balkanization within our borders.
College brochures in Spanish? That makes no sense. A Hispanic who is college material would know English, un;ess, of course, they want to turn the college into a big ESL faciality.
Maybe one day, I'll be tearing down “colored” signs that hang above water fountains.Hmm, let's see if we can premeditate the answer of the diversity office:
Yes, I can see it now...DIVERSITY MACHT FREI
It is a simple statistical fact that since minorities are in the minority, whenever a person of color gets in line to quench his or her or questioning thirst at a water fountain, most of the people in front of them will be their white oppressors. Can you imagine what that does to a young colored person's self-esteem? Day after day, ending up behind the white man once again, desperately hoping to get a drop of water that's been left over by those who feel entitled to come first whenever there's anything to distribute? No, after a life of privilege, you cannot possibly fathom the depth of the plight of the oppressed person of color. But you can at least stop uttering your racist opposition to the heroic efforts of the Diversity Office when it finally sets things right by introducing full racial segregation at water fountains, and any other places where a person of color might get in danger of getting too close to evil ice people. No, those “Colored Only” signs must stay! DIVERSITY MACHT FREI!
I wonder how often the loony, liberal leftists that make up the "powers that be" at UNCW regret allowing Dr. Adams to achieve tenure, thus allowing him to, without worrying about retribution, spew forth his wonderful stuff? J Oh, and Thank you for NOT excerpting this article.
Thank you for the ping. I believe this is coming about across the board in the UNC system. Courtesy of Erskine Bowles?
I was wondering if he had tenure. If he didn't, this one would have done the trick.
The downside is that Bowles is the Chancellor of the University system.
The upside is that we won't have to see his goobery face in campaign commercials any more.
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