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

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

[SouthernBoyupNorth]

if I worked there I would be looking into a lawsuit with a high powered lawyer claiming mental cruelty and anguish.... hostile work environment and anything else I could....

[martin_fierro]

An invitation to a "diversity workshop" sent to Sandia Labs employees

Sounds like a good day to be absent down at Molly's.

[yellow rubber ducky]

“....bourgeois.....”

A word and concept favored by communists, their fellow travelers, the naive, class and race baiting hucksters, and college professors, I believe.

[weegee]

Socialists use issues of “diversity”, “racism”, and “discrimination” to stir up discontent and to stifle dissent.

If you oppose Obama or Clinton, you are a racist or a sexist.

You have freedom in this country to vote, comrade. You do not have the freedom to have a political opinion.

[CedarDave]

If Ricky Lee Allen is a Black then it begs the question how did He become a professor? Were the bourgeois sentries out on coffee break when he slipped under the wire.

I have no idea of his race or ethnicity.

[Cincinatus]

See his picture, post #38

[weegee]

The world is not ready for a MARXIST as president.

[glide625]

There’s only one solution to the “race” problem..........................got enough ammo?

[Smokin' Joe]

"To be white in white territory is to be able to pass the gaze of its bourgeois sentries."

Allen must not be white or he would realize that how one is dressed, how one acts, patterns of speech, and general demeanor are judged of whites by whites as well.

I reckon he never heard that cracker was a term not for all whites, but for poor, low-class farmers and sharecroppers.

It is the racist blacks who have tried to make it into a generic.

I also offer "white trash", "trailer trash", and "from the wrong side of the tracks" as a few examples of whites who are often looked down upon by those who merely buy their suits off the rack...who are looked down upon by the nouveau riche, who in turn are looked askance at by the "old money".

In short, Allen's racism is apparent by lumping all whites into one category.

[freekitty]

The only people who are keeping any of these people down is themselves.

[NavVet]

This is why the David Duke's of the world can be rightfully condemned, but the Reverend Wright's are praised as “Liberation Theologians”.

[AD from SpringBay]

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.

You are obviously mired in the tired dialectic of past Euro-centric educational pedagogies. Of course you, knowing that some ethnicities think in terms of the rasict ideal (note the White-Platinic use of the word) of facts and figures while other cultures think in more abstract terms, would be in favor of testing. I bet your test was written by a Cracker!

[CedarDave]

Great place to eat when I lived in SF. Used to have some great food; may visit and drop by to see if it’s still there.

[chas1776]

Being white in a situation that is all black, you feel not welcome. Does that mean the blacks are racists?

[vikingd00d]

>>”It was not written by Sandia staff, Padilla said.”

Doesn’t matter. If the Sandia staff, copied it, or distributed it in any way, they have created a hostile work environment. Everyone offended ought to sue. Use the Leftists’ B.S. against them.

[Eurale]

I remember, circa 1963, that my Dad had a poster of a black man dressed in Col. Sanders-like white suit, sitting in a rocking chair on the porch of a southern plantation mansion and holding a mint julep. The caption read, “Now this is what me and Martin King had in mind.” Now, flash forward 45 years.

[CedarDave]

Allen is so full of white guilt it seeps out his pores.

[Cincinatus]

Sanctimony, more like. Too cool for school. Way hipper than thou. In a word, a creep.

[Boonie]

The only people who are keeping any of these people down is themselves.

I have always wanted to ask Jesse Jackson if he got where he is on his own or if he needed “affirmative action” to get there? if he said he got there on his own, I would ask if he thought he was “better” than other blacks because he states they “need” affirmative action....

[muleskinner]

Any male over 12 years old who still goes by "Ricky" is a disturbed individual. Too bad UNM will give a job to the offal of the academic community.

Critical pedagogy indeed. Patooee.