Posted on 04/01/2021 7:52:03 AM PDT by grundle
Cancels entire business competition
Loyola University Maryland’s business school removed a video that proposed a project to match black entrepreneurs in Baltimore with black students to provide them with mentoring on business skills and financial literacy.
Several students at the Catholic university in Baltimore submitted the video to the “Building a Better Baltimore” competition as part of the Sellinger School’s annual “Building a Better World Through Business” series that involves various events.
“How might the Baltimore business community effectively advance racial equity?” the proposal competition asked.
The video quotes from slavery abolitionist Frederick Douglass and former President Barack Obama to make the case for the mentorship program that focuses on the “black youth of Baltimore.” Students talk about the program while walking through decrepit streets and housing.
The video (below) has been removed by university officials, but someone reuploaded the video and The Fix uploaded it as well to preserve it in case that version is removed.
The program, to be called “Baltimore’s financial fathers” would have worked with the “Baltimore business community” to match black business owners with black youth to become “agents of change.”
However, the university removed the video after complaints from the student government association and an activist group called “Addressing the System.”
Furthermore, the entire competition has been cancelled by the university. “This even [sic] has been cancelled” the page said.
University officials are thankful for community members for “calling us into deeper conversations about institutionalized racism on campus,” Kathleen Getz, the business school dean wrote in an email, a portion of which the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education obtained.
Getz also said that “Black lives matter, and we must demonstrate that through our actions.”
Getz said the university planned to find “opportunities” for the community to “participate in a practice of restorative justice.”
Students drive university to respond
The response came after complaints from some student leaders and activists.
“This is disrespectful on so many levels and is Racist [sic] !!” the student group wrote on Instagram on March 22 along with a screenshot of one student participant walking through crippled buildings while wearing a suit.
“The video promotes the ideology of white saviorsim [sic], white supremacy and most of all a lack of addressing structural racism!” the page said.
“Countless times Loyola has pushed racial issues to the side. And deemed them self’s [sic] as separate from the Baltimore community !!” the activist group said.
The student government, which co-sponsored the annual business promotion event, criticized the video as well.
“[W]e do not condone the racially insensitive messages displayed in the video,” the group posted on social media, in a post archived by FIRE. It appears to be from an Instagram story, which deletes after 24 hours. The post is not visible on its Instagram page.
“As a once-proud Loyola University alum, I am ashamed that my alma mater has succumbed to this kind of pressure,” Giovanni Gravano, a staffer for the free-speech group, wrote in the blog post covering the story.
“Where strong university values once guided Loyola and its initiatives, it seems those have been replaced by submission to politically motivated demands from social media,” Gravano said.
The free-speech group said it is monitoring the situation.
I’m confused as to just what the controversy is.....
Can’t have them getting knowledge to get off the plantation..................
And of course the dean sided with the crazies.
The program itself may be worthwhile, but the video is ridiculous. It actually IS offensive to see these white boys walking through the rubble - Kim Klacik they are not.
Some think it relays a message that blacks can’t get up the ladder without white help.
Haven’t seen the video yet, why would it be offensive for white people to try to help people?
They’re leftists. They think a Black entrepreneur is a bad role model and part of “the problem.”
Wow, so I was rolling my eyes pretty hard at the story until I saw your comment, which got me curious about the video itself. It’s just clip after clip of white college guys in full suits walking through the literal rubble of collapsed row homes in Baltimore talking about teaching black people “financial literacy” and such.
It’s a pretty ridiculous video and really difficult to hear at times since they didn’t use any mics. F-
Are college kids really this dumb?
Any traditionally white institution, founded by whites, can never be sufficiently “woke” to systemic racism.
Only the members of BLM can fix them.
Here are our demands:
1. No descendant of the African slave trade (Irish honkies are EXCLUDED) will need to comnplete an admission application or test.
2. No descendant of the African slave trade will be required to register for or attend any classes.
3. An on-campus residency will be provided, free of charges. As will meals.
4. Music students and student athletes will get a per diem (to be determined by the student) paid daily in cash.
5. All descendants of the African slave trade are either athletes or music students.
6. Students will determine their graduation date.
7. Students will assign their Pass/Fail grades and determine their degree level, regardless of the handbook definitions.
Here is a link to the wokest, most whitest-privileged group on campus. It's good to have so many woke whiteys to look after the poor incapable black folk.
https://www.loyola.edu/department/academic-affairs/about/academic-affairs-leaders
At what point does all this black crap become racist?
If it's black entrepreneurs, how is that "white saviorism"?
You can’t show Black people how to advance economically, you can only show them why they haven’t advanced economically (White Man’s fault, etc).
Apparently, this activist group objected to the idea that black people could be rescued by white people:
“The video promotes the ideology of white saviorsim [sic], white supremacy and most of all a lack of addressing structural racism!” the page said.
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I am guessing some “saviorsim” is needed to help these dolts learn English. Apparently, their instruction in rhetoric and composition ended after second grade.
As for Loyola, it’s heartbreaking to see what it has become. I know people
who graduated from there when it was a fine school.
White Democrat Man’s Burden.
Liberals can’t even save liberals from themselves.
Huh, imagine this, happening in Maryland. /rimshot
Blacktivist: “This video is all about forcing black people off the plantation and not being dependent on the government for their provenance and happiness. There isn’t anything that is more racist and white supremacist than that!”
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