Sounds like a good day to be absent down at Molly's.
Posted on 04/09/2008 9:53:12 AM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at abqjournal.com ...
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....
Sounds like a good day to be absent down at Molly's.
“....bourgeois.....”
A word and concept favored by communists, their fellow travelers, the naive, class and race baiting hucksters, and college professors, I believe.
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.
I have no idea of his race or ethnicity.
See his picture, post #38
The world is not ready for a MARXIST as president.
There’s only one solution to the “race” problem..........................got enough ammo?
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.
The only people who are keeping any of these people down is themselves.
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.
Being white in a situation that is all black, you feel not welcome. Does that mean the blacks are racists?
>>”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.
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.
Allen is so full of white guilt it seeps out his pores.
Sanctimony, more like. Too cool for school. Way hipper than thou. In a word, a creep.
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....
Critical pedagogy indeed. Patooee.
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