Posted on 10/16/2020 4:30:02 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
The University of Minnesota’s School of Social Work and Continuing Education Series recently hosted what they called a Special Webinar Series that was titled, “Deconstructing & Decentralizing White-ness in Practice: A Three-Part Series,” in which a lecture titled “Recovery from White Conditioning” taught white people how to use a “12-step” program similar to Alcoholics Anonymous to “recover and reclaim our full humanity.”
Therapist Cristina Combs, who created the program, spent “years of struggling to navigate the role and presence of whiteness in her personal, academic, and professional journeys,” the website for the series claims.
“Combs began the lecture by acknowledging that ‘I am on traditional Dakota land,’ the territory of a Native American tribe which settled in Minnesota,” The College Fix reported, in a lengthy article detailing the presentation. “She also acknowledged ‘George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and all of the other lives stolen from families and communities and our world due to police brutality and state-sanctioned violence.’”
After asking, “What comes to mind when you hear the term ‘white supremacy?”, Combs showed a slide with images of Ku Klux Klan members and white nationalists in Charlottesville, then replaced their images with one of herself, commenting, “When BIPOC (black, indigenous, people of color) activists would use the term ‘white supremacy’ to talk about the systems that needed to change and the work that white people needed to do, my instinct was to recoil. It felt like too hard or too raw of a word, and I didn’t like it. And I ultimately realized that that is my ego … Stepping into that tension and accepting my connection to white supremacy has been a freedom of sorts to show up in better alignment with my values and do the work for the rest of my life.”
In her preamble to the explanation of her 12-step program toward racial sobriety, Combs quoted feminist author Bell Hooks saying that “‘imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy’ [is] the power structure underlying the social order.”
The 12 steps in the program:
Step 1: “We admitted that we had been socially conditioned by the ideology of white supremacy.”
Step 2: “We came to believe that we could embrace our ignorance as an invitation to learn.”
Step 3: “We develop support systems to keep us engaged in this work.”
Step 4: “We journeyed boldly inward, exploring and acknowledging ways in which white supremacist teachings have been integrated into our minds and spirits.”
Step 5: “We confessed our mistakes and failings to ourselves and others.”
Step 6: “We were entirely ready to deconstruct previous ways of knowing, as they have been developed through the lens of white supremacy.”
Step 7: “We humbly explored new ways of understanding…proactively seeking out new learning and reconstructing a more inclusive sense of reality.”
Step 8: “We committed ourselves to ongoing study of our racial biases, conscious or unconscious, and our maladaptive patterns of white supremacist thinking.”
Step 9: “We develop strategies to counteract our racial biases.”
Step 10: “We embraced the responsibility of focusing on our impact, more than our intentions, in interactions with people of color.”
Step 11: “We engage in daily practices of self-reflection.”
Step 12: “We committed ourselves to sharing this message with our white brothers, sisters, and siblings…in order to build a supportive recovery community and to encourage personal accountability within our culture.”
Fundamental problem is that 12 Step programs are based on the idea of a spiritual malady that can only be cured by a reliance and relationship with God
This really should be a column from the Babylon Bee.
Yes, I have been teaching my high school kids for years that affirmative action is the only systemic, racism in America, and it is state-sponsored to boot.
The University of Minnesota’s School of Social Work and Continuing Education Series
Well you now know where they have institutionalized the education of “stupid”.... I’m sure they have advanced degree programs in “stupid” also.
If MN ever gets a Republican governor again, and also control both houses of the legislature, they should make drastic cuts in the U of MN budget, and specify that they drop all "grievance studies" courses and any racism programs in the individual departments. I have been saying this for years, but no states ruled by Republicans seem willing to do it. Texas should certainly do it to UT-Austin.
“””It means what it says.
Return the area to the pre-industrial, pre-white settler past.”””””
But they would still want their free stuff and lots of whiskey.
Is there Yellow supremacy in China?
What no sack cloth and ashes and prostrations in self-abasement while beating ones breast ...through my most grievous fault I was born white?
 "My name is "Cracker", and I am a closet whitey!" |
I took this course and I’m still a productive law abiding citizen with no debt and half MOA hits at 100 yards.
It’s a fraud.
Grass huts, contaminated water, starvation, and abject poverty for the next 5000 years. Let’s do it!
That’s a headshot on a squirrel at that distance, or a boiler-room hit on a deer at half a mile.
You’ll be eating well after the apocalypse, as long as the ammo holds out.
Because then they would feel “in charge”.
They wouldn’t be surrounded by all the technology and advancements brought about by...ummm...civilized people.
Their surroundings make them feel inferior, because they know it’s on loan and wasn’t their idea.
None of it was my idea either, but I don’t resent those who dreamed it up. My wifi, laptop, Playstation, and flatscreen TV? I couldn’t tell you how they really work, but I applaud the inventers and have no desire to go backward.
Prediction of things to come: the Universities are going to to go through a big economic crunch. The Critical Race Theory industry will not be cut back. Instead, STEM will be on the block. The faculties and boards will comply
Dumbest thing I ever heard of & I’m sure this gal makes more money off this idiotic course than I ever did by working at a skilled job. By the way, there was no discrimination between white & black that I was aware of at any place where I worked. Minneapolis must be a great place to live & work.
Do you get a free t shirt announcing your coming out, do you still get a beat down from BLM pukes and snowflakes protesters, can you receive reparations now that you are not white but maybe grey?
“Pre European America didn’t have horses...horses came with the Spanish.
So it would mean walking everywhere. “
And without those colonial cellphones they will be able to watch where they walk.
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