Western Illinois U. National Day of Racial Healing Includes ‘Racism for White People’ Lecture
“racism is almost always perceived as threatening to white people”
So much healing. Can’t you just feel the love?
Campus Reform reports:
Western Illinois’ National Day of Racial Healing observance features ‘Racism for White People’ lecture
To commemorate the National Day of Racial Healing on Jan. 16, a university in Macomb, Illinois is set to host a series of events that include efforts to educate white people about racism.
Western Illinois University’s Office of Justice, Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (JIDE) will be observing the day for the first time by hosting various events that will take place from Jan. 16-30.
The school will be hosting a “Racism for White People” event on the first day of observance, hosted by WIU professor of Sociology and Anthropology Robert Hironimus-Wendt.
The event description notes that “racism is almost always perceived as threatening to white people” and that “most of us put on our armor so to speak whenever such conversations involve whiteness, white privilege, white advantage, etc.”
The lecture will encourage people to put down their “armor” and explain how to “enlist [white people] in the fight to reduce racism in our presence.”
Another event, titled “Xenophobia,” will be hosted by associate vice president of Global Studies Randy Glean, who will explain how people can “embrace inclusion of non-traditional immigrants.”
The two weeks of events will close with “How to Combat Anti-Semitism,” presented by WIU professor of Religious Studies Amy Carr. Topics to be discussed will include “the difference between anti-Semitic and criticizing the policies of Israel,” and the question, “How has anti-Judaism been present in Christian imagination?”
In a recent local public radio interview, JIDE director Carl Ervin explained the need for the JIDE plan and compared the contemporary racial climate to that of the post-Reconstruction era.
“It’s sort of like that period right after reconstruction and things went back down and it took a while to come back up,” Ervin said. “I think we’ve gone back down now, so we have to interrupt that with these efforts we’re making now so that we don’t repeat that part of the past.”
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Just a suggestion, but how about starting with your own people? I understand that it doesn’t allow for much, if any, grifting opportunities, but it is the only path for actual improvement. To paraphrase their approach, “if my wife would treat me better, I would stop drinking.” Let us know how that works out for you.
Curious how white people aren’t ever acknowledged as victims of racism? Or how has anti-Judaism been present in Muslim imagination?
Maintaining the woke progressive leftie narrative.
“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. “
Booker T. Washington (1911). “My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience”
Western Illinois University isn’t known for its scholarly pursuits
Well, ominously, in some ways, it’s more problematic.
Why. Because at Western Illinois University the most popular major is “Criminal Justice And Corrections”
(Source: http://www.CollegeScorecard.Ed.Gov)
Second most common major is “General Studies.”
Eight years after enrolling, graduation rate is $10,000 per year.
Average debt-repayment is >$200 per month for ten years.
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Do we really want our new Police Officers and our new Corrections Officers beginning their careers burdened with this kind of debt-load?
Seems to me a set-up for … ahem, a lot of mischief.
What a system.
Is it really necessary for our society to encourage this kind of thing?
Oops Graduation rate after eight years <60%
Somehow I don’t feel waves of healing. Do you?
In fact what I feel is constant, nagging irritation.
If WIU had a true motto, it would be “A Culture of Mediocrity” a the mission statement would be “Good Enough is Good Enough.” (Speaking from experience.)
It appears that the lecture was postponed due to weather conditions.. Perhaps the weather forecast was for a whiteout?