'White Racist' Invite Offends Lab Workers (NM-Sandia Lab)

The Albuquerque Journal ^ | April 9, 2008 | John Fleck

[CedarDave]

An invitation to a "diversity workshop" sent to Sandia Labs employees last week by labs management has drawn complaints because of its suggestion that white people are inherently racist.

"Recent studies suggest whites' lack of awareness about other cultures has to do with whites' commitment to maintaining higher social status, or 'white privilege,' '' the invitation said.

It also said whites "are likely to persist in racist behaviors unless persuaded to abolish the privileges they receive as members of the white race."

Sandia staff received a dozen calls from employees upset about the wording, labs spokesman Michael Padilla said.

He said Sandia apologized to employees offended by the e-mail. But Sandia's position is that it was not responsible for the wording ...

The e-mail ... encouraged labs workers to sign up for the 19th Annual Diversity Forum. It summarized a talk on "white privilege" by University of New Mexico faculty member Ricky Lee Allen at the April 24 forum.

The text of the e-mail about Allen's talk on "White Privilege and Diversity" was excerpted nearly verbatim from the flier and Web site on the diversity forum. It was not written by Sandia staff, Padilla said.

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Allen, a professor in UNM's College of Education, specializes in the study of race in education. In a 2000 book on the subject, Allen and two colleagues argued that white culture in the United States perpetrates widespread and unacknowledged racism ...

"To be a person of color in white territory is to be monitored, marked and excluded," Allen and his colleagues wrote. "To be white in white territory is to be able to pass the gaze of its bourgeois sentries." Central to this tacit racism ... is a desire by white people to retain the privileged place race provides for them in contemporary society.

[CedarDave]

"Who the f**k is running that place?"
guilt ridden liberals and the legal dept.

Good answer. Management is Lockheed-Martin with DOE oversight.

[chris_bdba]

As a white kid raised in Appalachia I’m still wondering what exactly white priviledge is?

[devistate one four]

Amen

[ANGGAPO]

The victim syndrome again. A real money maker every time.

[farlander]

I’d tell them to go to hell. Fire me for insensitivity if you dare.

[Lancey Howard]

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Doesn’t sound like too many lab workers are going to sign up and be forced to listen to racist rants.

[I see my hands]

To: Sandia Labs

"whites' lack of awareness about other cultures"

Let's find out. Let's get a hundred of each race and sit down for an cultural awareness quiz. Let's see which races are ignorant and which races are not.

Let's have quizzes on other topics too. Let's find out, punks.

[junta]

Could they possibly define “racism”, I’m left guessing that it has something to do with voodoo.

[subterfuge]

"To be a person of color in white territory is to be monitored, marked and excluded," Allen and his colleagues wrote.

Really? Where I work, to be a person of no-color (eyes rolling) is to be marked, monitored and assumed as privileged. And you know what? That kind of stings when you know you aren't one of the "privileged."

We have a Special women's "Networking" group, Latino networking and self help group, a special African Americans networking group. It's just assumed that whitey's already got his group, but apparently I don't know where the meetings are held or who to pay the dues to.

[maine-iac7]

abolish the privileges they receive as members of the white race."

"Okay, Whitey, sit down, listen up, shut up and PAY up."

Let obamama into the WH and there will be blood in the streets as his "Quiet Riots" break out.

Good God = this is nothing but 'reprogramming' of the most insidious scale. I don't think even Communist Russia cast this wide a net...

[Blue Turtle]

Whites consider themselves AMERICANS first! No hyphens or color to distinguish and/or separate.

[goldstategop]

Liberals are the true racists.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[linn37]

Typical white person bump.

[weegee]

After reparations will come the “white privilege” sin tax.

[Finop]

Sure would be appropriate to call more attention to the ever increasing “Black Racist” population in this country.

[ohioman]

The DOE is full of liberal steaming piles. Thankfully, I have worked with USAF, Army, and Marines, which means that it is rare that you come across a flaming liberal turd. Of course if they’re on fire, the question is whether or not it’s worth stamping them out.

[Cincinatus]

The miscreant bozo:

"Dude...where's my whiteness seminar?!"

[OKIEDOC]

There is an all out war about being white.

This makes me angry.

[weegee]

We are told that only white people can be racist because only white people have the “power structure” to do anything with their prejudice.

If the president of the united states is non-white, will that demographic suddenly have the “power” to be racists or will they still be free to be racists without rebuke?