In a recent discovery by CriticalRace.org, Loyola University Maryland’s Philosophy Department was found to have described the history of the United States as one defined by the “snuffing out” of Black people through “white supremacist vigilantism” in its “Statement of Solidarity with BIPOC Community at Loyola and Beyond.”
First issued in 2020 in response to the killing of George Floyd, the statement remains active on the department’s main university website.
“The history of the United States is the history of terrorizing and snuffing out Black life through police killings and white supremacist vigilantism that has taken the lives of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks and countless others,” reads the statement.
The statement goes on to characterize American history as shaped by other discriminatory practices, including “financial practices which robbed African Americans of their greatest chance at accruing economic security and generational wealth,” as well as the intentional ignoring of “Black excellence.”
“We will not ‘whitewash’ the history of white supremacy in the philosophical canon,” emphasizes the department.
Loyola University Maryland’s English department has recently drawn criticism for using similar language in its statements on “white supremacy.” The College Fix reported that the department asserted that “literature and the literary canons have been used to validate white supremacy,” while also committing to “making anti-racist teaching central” in its classrooms.
Both of these findings represent a pattern of universities blatantly advocating for progressive political activism on their official websites.
The University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology includes a “Commitment to Social and Racial Justice” on their website, which states they “acknowledge the historic oppression of Black people and the systemic racism and institutional inequalities in our community, in our society, and around the world…We believe that all Black Lives Matter.”
Portland State University’s Multicultural Retention Services website features a “MRS in Solidarity & Action for Black Lives Matter” statement, in which the program declares, “Multicultural Retention Services (MRS) stands in solidarity with the Black community as an extension of the work we do to combat white supremacy, racism, and anti-blackness.” The page also provides ways students can support the movement, including donating to the Bail Project to bail out criminals.
As universities like Loyola Maryland, Nebraska at Omaha, and Portland State double down on some of their diversity, equity, and inclusion political activism, federal funding could hang in the balance as the Education Department continues its war on DEI.
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