Posted on 11/26/2015 6:16:48 AM PST by Kaslin
When students protesting "microaggressions" took over an administrative building at Occidental College in California, they issued 14 demands. The school agreed to all except the first, which required the firing of its president. Similar protests took place concurrently at other colleges nationwide.
Occidental's five-day takeover was organized by Oxy United for Black Liberation, led by members of Oxy's Black Student Alliance (BSA) and Coalition at Oxy for Diversity and Equity (CODE). Occidental says the demands they agreed to meet were:
"Promotion of the new chief diversity officer (CDO) position to vice president level.
"Increase budget of the CDO office by 50 percent.
"Allocate $60,000 to Diversity and Equity Board (DEB) to fund programming and provide resources for black and other marginalized students.
"Creation of a fully funded and staffed Black Studies program, a demand the group says 'has not been met for over 40 years.'
"Increase percentage of tenured faculty of color by 20 percent for the 2017-18 school year, and by 100 percent over the next five years.
"Provide funding for Harambee, the student group for black men, which has not received funding in five years.
"Institute mandatory training for all College employees -- especially Residential Education, Student Affairs and Campus Safety -- that provides tools to properly assist people from marginalized backgrounds.
"Immediate demilitarization of Campus Safety.
"Immediate removal of LAPD's presence on campus.
"Ensure the continued existence of the Intercultural Affairs office on campus.
"Elimination of the First Year Residential Education program. In its place, restructure Core Studies Program classes to focus on issues surrounding identity, fulfilling its original purpose.
"Hire physicians of color at Emmons Wellness Center to treat physical and emotional trauma associated with issues of identity.
"Meet the demands that CODE made following the arrest of a community member on September 5."
Whew!
On Twitter, I asked a pro-protest Occidental College student to provide a definition of "microaggression." He refused, instead sending a link to a PhD philosophy thesis on the subject. Repeat, a PhD philosophy thesis. The paper's definition:
"The overt nature of racism in the United States has morphed into an insidious, covert manifestation called racial microaggression. ... Though not often intentional in nature, these microaggressive behaviors have become pervasive in the lives of people of color. ... Extant research reveals the harmful and cumulative effects of racial microaggressions. ... Much research has been done on people of color's experiences with racial microaggressions; however, few studies have given attention to why some African American college students are able to excel in microaggressive academic environments while others do not." Oh.
The thesis's author conducted a study with 47 undergraduates, but only 35 completed the survey and were included in the data: "As a result of insignificant results, as well as predominantly male participants, secondary analyses were conducted based on demographic variables, which are salient for African American male college students." Oh.
The paper's takeaway: "Results indicated that students' backgrounds impact how they handle microaggressive behaviors." Seriously?!?
Here's what's really happening.
Faculty leftists now rule the humanities departments in America's colleges and universities. They teach victimhood. Students learn that they've been victims of America's racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. So why the surprise when they begin to act like victims? And due to self-imposed or external pressure to "diversify" campuses by race and ethnicity, colleges relax customary academic standards of admission for so called "underrepresented students," specifically blacks and Hispanics. Such students would have done fine at a less competitive school, one commensurate with their grades and test scores. But when standards are watered down, students can struggle to compete, thus becoming "academically marginalized." Thus the very same students who "benefited" from the push for diversity then complain about the perceived "microaggressions" that supposedly hinder their success.
So, given anti-microaggression protests at places such as Dartmouth, Brown, Columbia, Occidental and University of Missouri, among others, we offer 10 Tips to Survive Today's College Campus, or: Everything You Need to Know About College Microaggressions:
1. Facts are "microaggressions."
2. Facts are racist.
3. Blacks cannot be racist. Racism requires power. Blacks lack power and therefore cannot be racist.
4. A student of color, except for Asians, who gets bad grades is "academically marginalized."
5. Professors who give bad grades to students of color, except for Asians, are racists.
6. The SAT is culturally biased.
7. White male students/staff/faculty must renounce their "white male privilege" and then, well, we'll get back to you on that.
8. If you're white and your response to "Black Lives Matter" is that "All Lives Matter," you're a racist.
9. If you're black and your response to "Black Lives Matter" is that "All Lives Matter," you're an "Uncle Tom."
10. If you're Latino and your response to "Black Lives Matter" is that "All Lives Matter," you're a "Tio Taco."
Good luck.
Isn’t this Obama’s alma mater?
Bfl.
"God D*** America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11"
--Rev Dr. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's "Black Liberation"(Communist) pastor for 20+ years
Obama's Church: Gospel of Hate
Kathy Shaidle, FrontPageMag.com
Monday, April 07, 2008
In March of 2007, FOX News host Sean Hannity had engaged Obama's pastor in a heated interview about his Church's teachings. For many viewers, the ensuing shouting match was their first exposure to "Black Liberation Theology"...
Like the pro-communist Liberation Theology that swept Central America in the 1980s and was repeatedly condemned by Pope John Paul II, Black Liberation Theology combines warmed-over 1960s vintage Marxism with carefully distorted biblical passages. However, in contrast to traditional Marxism, it emphasizes race rather than class. The Christian notion of "salvation" in the afterlife is superseded by "liberation" on earth, courtesy of the establishment of a socialist utopia.
http://web.archive.org/web/20090321190904/http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=30CD9E14-B0C9-4F8C-A0A6-A896F0F44F02
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Catholics for Marx [Liberation Theology]
By Fr. Robert Sirico
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, June 03, 2004
In the days when the Superpowers were locked in a Cold War, Latin America seethed with revolution, and millions lived behind an iron curtain, a group of theologians concocted a novel idea within the history of Christianity. They proposed to combine the teachings of Jesus with the teachings of Marx as a way of justifying violent revolution to overthrow the economics of capitalism.
The Gospels were re-rendered not as doctrine impacting on the human soul but rather as windows into the historical dialectic of class struggle. These "liberation theologians" saw every biblical criticism of the rich as a mandate to expropriate the expropriating owners of capital, and every expression of compassion for the poor as a call for an uprising by the proletarian class of peasants and workers.
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Re: James Cone, founder of "Black Liberation Theology":
SEAN HANNITY: But Reverend Jeremiah Wright is not backing down and has not for years and in his strong stance on the teaching of black liberation theology is nothing new. He had the same things to say last spring when he appeared on "Hannity & Colmes:"
WRIGHT: If you're not going to talk about theology in context, if you're not going to talk about liberation theology that came out of the '60s, systematized black liberation theology that started with Jim Cone in 1968 and the writings of Cone and the writings of Dwight Hopkins and the writings of womynist theologians and Asian theologians and Hispanic theologians, then you can't talk about the black value system.
HANNITY: But I'm a - reverend
WRIGHT: Do you know liberation theology, sir?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354158,00.html
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The Black church and Marxism: what do they have to say to each other
by Cone, James H. 1938- . Harrington, Michael 1928-1989
https://archive.org/details/TheBlackChurchAndMarxismWhatDoTheyHaveToSayToEachOther
Not many Black Lives Matter morons would have the initiative to get a poster printed. But it's no mystery where they get the signs that they jab in the air as they chant "What do we want? Dead cops!" The supplier is printed right across the bottom: revcom.us .
'Rev' is for revolutionary.
'Com' is for communist.
Revcom.us bills itself as "the voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA." The explicit objective is to overthrow our constitutional republic and replace it with an oligarchical collectivist dictatorship along the lines of North Korea and the Soviet Union.
Why would advocates of a communist police state agitate against the police? Because as leftists used to admit openly, the issue is never the issue. This isn't about the police, any more than it is about blacks. It is about destabilizing the system so as to create opportunities to weaken it and eventually overthrow it.
That's what community organizing boils down to. These people have taken over the executive branch of the federal government; why would they stop there?
The next hill they take will be federal control of local police. After that, things will start to get scary.
http://moonbattery.com/?p=54033
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From the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party (revcom.us):
"Create Public Opinion, Seize Power: We are preparing minds and organizing forces for the time when there is a major crack in the system, whenever it comes and wherever it comes from: an opening that makes it possible to bring the future Revolutionary Army of the Proletariat (R.A.P.) into the field and wage a revolutionary armed struggle that actually has a chance of winning.
And we have said that building our party itself is the most important part of organizing forces for revolution. This is true now, and it is true looking forward to the creation of that future R.A.P. and the waging of that armed struggle.":
http://revcom.us/a/v20/1000-1009/1000/barw.htm
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REVOLUTION: Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA [Maoist]
[Revolution] Interview with Bill Ayers, Revolution #63, October 1, 2006:
"On Progressive Education, Critical Thinking and the Cowardice of Some in Dangerous Times"
http://web.archive.org/web/20110727113745/http://rwor.org/a/063/ayers-en.html
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The 1992 LA/Rodney King riots were instigated by the Revolutionary Communist Party...
From David Horowitz's FrontpageMag.com /DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
"Throughout its history, one of RCP's [Revolutionary Communist Party] principal objectives has been to foment civil unrest in the United States. The most notable example of such efforts occurred on April 29, 1992, when RCP members looted and trashed the downtown and government districts of Los Angeles, triggering the infamous Rodney King riots. During the days immediately preceding the violence, RCP -- which maintained close ties to the L.A. gangs known as the Crips and the Bloods -- had circulated throughout South Central Los Angeles a leaflet featuring a statement by RCP National Spokesman Carl Dix, titled 'It's Right To Rebel' -- a quote popularized by Mao Zedong.
Encouraged by Dix, RCP activists helped lead the riots that would leave 58 people dead, more than 2,300 people injured, some 5,300 buildings burned, and $1 billion in property damaged or destroyed. On the ten-year anniversary of the rioting, RCP member Joseph Veale fondly recalled the violence as 'the most beautiful, the most heroic civil action in the history of the United States.'"
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6197
"Harambee" - Swahili, literally 'pulling or working together' (a slogan of the first independent government of Kenya).
Photo of the "Harambee" group working to raise funds for their Garissa (Kenya) Water Project. Notice all the black men participating...
Occidental? Yes.
Obama Espoused Radical [Communist] Views in College
Steve Malzberg - WOR News Talk Radio 710 ^ | February 12, 2010 | Ronald Kessler
Dr. John C. Drew, a grant writing consultant in Laguna Niguel, Calif., tells Newsmax he met Obama in 1980 when Obama was a sophomore at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Drew had just graduated from Occidental and was attending graduate school at Cornell University.
During Christmas break, Drew says he was at Grauman-Boss’ home in Palo Alto when Obama came over with Mohammed Hasan Chandoo, his roommate from Pakistan.
"Barack [Obama] and Hasan showed up at the house in a BMW, and then we went to a restaurant together," Drew says. "We had a nice meal, and then we came back to the house and smoked cigarettes and drank and argued politics."
For the next several hours, they discussed Marxism.
"He [Obama] was arguing a straightforward Marxist-Leninist class-struggle point of view, which anticipated that there would be a revolution of the working class, led by revolutionaries, who would overthrow the capitalist system and institute a new socialist government that would redistribute the wealth," says Drew, who says he himself was then a Marxist.
"The idea was basically that wealthy people were exploiting others," Drew says. "That this was the secret of their wealth, that they weren't paying others enough for their work, and they were using and taking advantage of other people. He was convinced that a revolution would take place, and it would be a good thing."
Drew concluded that Obama thought of himself as "part of an intelligent, radical vanguard that was leading the way towards this revolution and towards this new society." ..."
Referring to Obama's quote from "Dreams of My Father" that he associated with Marxist professors, Drew says, "What he's not saying is that he was in 100 percent total agreement with those Marxist professors. When you understand that, Obama's later associations and policies make more sense, including why he was taken in by Rev. Wright's [Black Liberation] ideology."
#BlackFecalMatter
Here is an updated link to the above article I just posted, re: Occidental:
http://web.archive.org/web/20100216094620/http://www.wor710.com/pages/6350883
I thought the idea was to eliminate segregation, not encourage it.
Here’s a “tip”:
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
I stand before you with deep humility in facing the challenges that confront us all, along with the understanding that our mutual undertaking should be considered in terms that are nothing less than the preservation of our integrity as an institution of higher learning in America. That means that we are committed to the pursuit of truth, honesty, civility, and the bequeathing of our country’s matchless heritage of freedom to future generations. I understand further that many of you do not share these goals, and with such individuals in mind especially, I state with the firmest resolve that you do not belong here. Indeed, likely you do not belong at any academic institution that takes its mission seriously. However, beginning right now, we must assert that this university’s ideals will claim our sincerest loyalty. Again, if you cannot contribute to our academic community for it is a community of scholarship, teaching, and learning that binds us together then your presence here will do neither us nor you any good. Thus you must depart these hallowed halls.
I recognize fully that I am thrust into a position of great turmoil, which has spread to many other academic institutions throughout the land. Frankly, the reasons for this are no mystery to me. I will not speculate on how many administrators, faculty, and students have been infected with the spiritual bacillus of Marxist cultural criticism, which commands its acolytes to worship at the altar of race, class, and gender, but considering the phalanx of hyphenated “isms” that march through lists of student protesters’ demands like a regiment of storm troopers, one may safely assume that this number is rather high.
Certainly, many of you have succumbed to the call of this unholy trinity, including some faculty cancelling classes, issuing sympathetic messages to the disaffected, or joining protesters on their marches to chaos and nihilism. Indeed, any observer cannot fail to note, with the deepest chagrin and perhaps a smidgen of humor, those among you who blanketed our grounds with your bodies and placards, and smothered our speech with shouts and demands, have also complained that the recent murdering spree by Islamist radicals in Paris have drawn unwarranted attention from your presumed sufferings.
Apart from displaying to our country and the world your isolation from reality, you have perhaps unintentionally brought into bold relief a very important point. And it is this: Dealing with serious problems as fully as possible requires addressing root causes, a sentiment with which you claim great familiarity. I must say I completely agree. We should strive to deal with root causes to overcome our current tribulations, keeping in mind, however, that some of these causes, such as your upbringing and previous educational experience, are outside this institution’s realm of control.
But we shall do what we can, beginning by taking the following steps. First, the university will no longer fund or support any student organization based on race, class, gender, ethnicity, or some supposed set of grievances. This means that dozens of student groups, some issuing from a menagerie of exotic imaginations, will be on their own. Second, at no time will demonstrations that halt or disrupt academic functions at the university or threaten the safety or lives of our students be tolerated. Aggressive mob actions that break the law will result in the perpetrators being arrested, removed from the campus, and discharged from the university. This includes all students, faculty and administrators. Third, all academic majors beginning with the word “Studies†will be abolished and their faculty dismissed. Perhaps no greater service can be carried out for the devotees in such majors, since this action surely prevents them from acquiring useless degrees frequently based on preposterous ideas.
Fourth, the administration will strive mightily to fulfill the diversity and inclusion criteria of our university by hiring more faculty members committed to the values of truth, honesty, civility, and freedom. This will result in the addition of scholars who espouse ideals on which our country was based, classical liberalism, constitutionalism, and all the freedoms those principles entail. Without question, such initiatives will bolster our standing throughout the country, a goal with which I’m sure you will agree.
Fifth, the administration and board of trustees will not entertain any complaints based on so-called “micro-aggressions,” or “hurt feelings,” or the failure to provide “trigger warnings” or “safe spaces,” all of which are expressions of individuals too immature and pusillanimous to be at this university. Finally, the concept of a “free speech zone,” is abhorrent to the First Amendment to the Constitution, and indeed, to the foundations of this country. The whole university is a free speech zone and will be defended vigorously.
I conclude by pledging myself to conduct the duties of the office of university president to the fullest of my abilities. I shall work on your behalf for the betterment of your souls, the enrichment of your learning, and the enhancement of your life’s many prospects. I shall strive every day to succeed in the grandest, most noble endeavor any nation can have for its citizens, and that is to impart to our sons and daughters the highest ideals to which we aspire. For it is a civilization we are bequeathing, not just a list of fresh resumes. It is to these commitments I pledge my life, my work, and my sacred honor.
Thank you very much,
Your New University President
While I’ll probably be going sometime in the near future, it’s a bit of a good thing I’m not in college right now.
I’m not afraid to say what I think about crap like this or the people who push it.
My daughter is going to college in the fall. I really hope her campus avoids all this bovine excreta. She’s going to Mississippi State. It seems like the last place that would want to have a community wrecking movement like this, but who knows?
Or you could just go to trade school.
Not everyone belongs in college anyway.
Some people might consider that a plus.
There is no Black Pride. Blacks can’t so much as feed themselves without white man’s money. They are lazy and look for handouts.
That's a fairly sweeping generalization, no?
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