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 ...
As I said to my grandmother once when she expressed similar misgivings: who appointed you guardian of the Race and don't you have better things to do?
You've yet to post a picture of yourself, although I have a vivid imagination as to what you look like. ;-)
Spare me your pinhead size intellect.
Should have a FReeper Hot Mami calender ;-)
"People give their kids 4 and 5 years of tuition and living expenses to experience that crap."
Actually it is to be brainwashed and turned into whites' enemies.
It's a war out there.
Picture a cross between Jennifer Lopez and Salma Hayek.
Why am I bombarded with it on TV? And don't give me that crap about shutting the TV off.
We have pin-ups? Does that mean that there's a "Ladies of FR" calendar? If so, I want in!
Did you see the front cover of Vogue? JLo looks GOOD.
That's the best you could do?? I thought you were one of these boiling wtaer IQs!!
Post a cute picture of yourself on your profile page for a while and you're IN.
If you've got those stats, then produce them, please.
As for it being false advertising, baloney. I've dated several black guys before I got married, and they far and away treated me better than any of the white guys I dated. My husband, for the record, is 1/2 Native American.
We have four kids together, and we've been married for six years.
Anecdotal, yes, but you can still stick that in your pipe and smoke it. I'm done with you and your racist twaddle, and pontifications about who is and is not conservative, according to YOU.
1. Divorce your husband and marry me. or
2. Will to me your first born daughter.
Oh, she's very white to me.
Nice dish, btw.
If you turn off the television you won't have to see anything you find offensive.
I save it for the worthwhile. You never DID answer about the illegal immigration threads, BTW.
Ah, you lucky gal! :)
I also nominate Freeperettes RM Dupress and Repubmommy, although they would kill me if I pinged them.
LOL!
Actually most commercials nowadays use ambiguous people. Sad, but true.
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