Posted on 02/06/2020 2:44:21 PM PST by Altura Ct.
To commemorate MLK Day, a Minnesota college hosted a plethora of events aimed at helping white students confront their alleged "racist tendencies." One such event accused white students of harboring “a nasty little racist inside them.”
Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota held an event on Martin Luther King Jr. Day designed exclusively for white students.
The event, titled “How to Embrace Your Inner Racist: A Session for White People” was designed to help attendees “recognize and acknowledge that there is a nasty little racist inside them,” according to a description found on the college's website. The session also aimed to help students learn how “the skills of psychological flexibility can help white people recognize and acknowledge their own racist tendencies.”
"while we won’t stop people of color from attending, they should know that their presence in the room is likely to interfere with the effectiveness of the session.” Tweet This “This session is for White people only,” the event description said, adding that "while we won’t stop people of color from attending, they should know that their presence in the room is likely to interfere with the effectiveness of the session.”
The session employed “Acceptance and Commitment Training (or ‘ACT’),” according to the college.
This ACT method is also known as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and seeks to employ psychotherapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in order to inspire behavioral change, according to Psychology Today.
The event was led by Ahmed Afzaal, a Concordia professor of Religion and Social Activism who has published such works as “Free Speech Comes with a Price Tag,” and an essay about the peaceful application of jihad in the modern world.
Campus Reform spoke with Gabe, a student at Concordia, who asked that his last name not be used for fear of backlash.
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Gabe said that the event was well attended by exclusively white students:
“The room was packed with people sitting on the floor,” he said. “There was only white people there.”
He estimated seeing about 70 students in attendance during the morning session he attended.
In addition to hosting this event designed exclusively for white students, Concordia also put on several other events aimed at calling out alleged racism by whites. Concordia Professor Karla Knutson who co-directs the Women's and Gender Studies Department, led a session designed for white women called “And You Call Yourself an Ally.”
Knutson’s event was designed to “encourage white women to confront and analyze their participation and/or complicity in racist systems of oppression” and “create a foundational experience of exposure to white women’s microaggressions,” according to a description found on the college website.
Students who attended “And You Call Yourself an Ally” were asked to prepare by reading an article about Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who identifies as black and once headed up her very own NAACP chapter.
Concordia’s MLK Day celebration also included an event titled “Anti-racism for White People,” headed up by Professor Jason Askvig who asked students to “engage in advancing awareness of whiteness, what it means, and how it operates.”
Professor Matthew Lindholm led an event on “Race and Environmental Justice,” and Professor Tess Varner led a session called “Can We Stop Being Polite?” which examined “the appropriate role of anger or of bold behaviors in dismantling racist systems.”
Campus Reform reached out to Afzaal and Concordia College but did not hear back in time for publication.
They just keep on and on. One day the ‘nasty little racist’ is going to get out and they created him.
There's also a Concordia University in Irvine, Calif. which is also Lutheran, but Missouri Synod. I don't think they would put on such a program.
Some information on the black caste system of the past.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_yellow
Sitting on the floor is stealing the ethnicity of Native Americans. The organizers are racist for not providing proper seating.
“Lutheran Christianity seems to mean nothing.“
The ELCA is an apostate denomination. The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, otoh, is fighting to stay biblical and conservative. Never mix LCMS and ELCA together. They dislike each other.
Concordia is just like all the other Lutheran colleges in Minnesota. 97% of the students are white and 80% have one of 6 last names: Anderson, Johnson, Nelson. Carlson, Larson, and Olson. Diversity means having dark hair.
Leftist math. 2+2=5
ELCA. They’re woke, y’know.
Yeah, we we lawyers now have a new requirement to take one hour of bias training annually even though we are the ones who fought the goddam battle for people who were/are treated unfairly.
> There was only white people there.
Grandpa took me to a meeting like that. Though the vibe was a probably bit different. Neat bonfire though.
Racist and bigoted against white people most definitely. Do these clowns ever listen to themselves?
Of you’re talking about Concordia, I think so.
Calling people names based on their skin color is racism.
Calling me a racist to my face results in me bashing their face in. I’ve been known to do it. I’m past tired of the attacks on white people.
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