Posted on 08/28/2005 2:37:52 PM PDT by Crackingham
Montgomery College in Maryland is offering a course on the unbearable lightness of being white. Whiteness Studies is intended to stimulate reflection and research into how people "become white." Please, no Michael Jackson jokes. Please.
"Course participants will look at changing definitions of 'White' or 'Caucasian' over time; examine how people learn the norms, behaviors, and roles of this status; and address tensions of those who feel 'forced to choose' one label or another."
The teacher will be the school's program director of diversity management -- Laura M. White. Yes, White. Her training includes "white privilege" conferences and one titled "What White People Can Do About Racism."
"It is about looking objectively on how whiteness is imposed on you and then how to deal with it," Ms. White said. As opposed to looking subjectively on how it is imposed. Or something.
"Colleges and universities are moving to infuse the entire curriculum with multicultural perspectives," White said. Math and science included.
Look for kinder and gentler integers and isotopes that celebrate diversity. The course probably will reference antebellum terms like quadroon, octoroon and maybe even sextupleoon. Black Irish, too.
But there is so much more to being what we white people call "white." As the course description reminds us, whiteness can be viewed as a powerful social and legal construct put in place over centuries to provide access and leverage for opportunities. It's often taught and reinforced nonverbally and through subtle sanctions for going outside "the rules."
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
I take it then that he's more than okay with porn including people of his own skin color.
MEN love porn. One of the key reasons the lesbo feminists never could get porn banned is that their Gay "allies" consumed so much of it.
Hey as long as women are objectified by men that look like them it's okay. I'm not objective about porn period anyway. I think it's ALL trash.
And coaches a pee wee football team too :sigh:
Why is it everysingle day there are ten threads rolling here on Immigration? If what you said were try, these proponents would have found Jesus long ago and embrace our Mexican brethren...
As stated at the onset. Why is TV advertising set up to Idolize the black man, hook him up with the white babe, and degrade the white man? It is truly out there and it's resentful.
I live near Detroit. The majority of the blacks in the city are in the Ghetto. Seeing the Majority of Black men in Advertising is a lie...plain and freaking simple!
I won't live your live.
I posted a FASCINATING story about the Melungeon people a while back that turned into a FASCINATING thread. There were many "white" FReeper FRiends of ours who went to that thread and were tickled and had their interest heightened about their possible mysterious "Melungeon" roots. It never did get ugly, but the "usual" suspects pretty much ignored that thread too.
Yes, I realize that.
I first heard that term from David Duke. The only other times I've heard it are from left-wing PC professor types.
And I'm no "European"-American. There's a reason my ancestors left that continent.
2. In the case of illegal immigration, there are several issues involved, including enforcement of the rule of law, the costs inherent in a large influx of poor people, and language issues of first generation immigrants. I don't see too many people on this site complaining about LEGAL immigrants from India, Colombia, China, or even Mexico, do you?
I live near Detroit. The majority of the blacks in the city are in the Ghetto.
** So the truth comes out... because all you see is the ghetto then that means that's all there is. You sound just like the black folks with a ghetto mentality that believe there aren't any good white people. Do you know any decent black people? Do you go to church at all?
Ah. I see what that fool's problem was. It's not necessarily inter-racial pornography in and of itself, it's pornography in which the woman is white and the man is black. Would it be okay if the races of the participants were reversed?
All pornography is disgusting, regardless of the races of the participants.
Those threads are about ILLEGAL aliens from every country, led by Mexico, and you'll find me on them too. Opposing illegal immigration doesn't mean there's no room for hispanic culture and multi-generation American hispanics like me in the U.S., alongside the cultures of the O'Neals and the Schmidts and the Harrises and the DeFazzios.
Or, are you one of those full-circle "conservatives" who doesn't differentiate between me and those illegals? (Full circle, because the open borders libs do the same thing).
gadz.
I'm hoping sit-rep isn't too close to where I live.
cyborg:
Let's go out and have a Cultural Milkshake.
My treat.
:-)
Exactly!
heh!
Cyborg, one of FR's resident pin-up girls.
I am :-)
Spare me your freeway size paint brush.
Hey! How about a little love over here?!!
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