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What's the point in studying the standard?
I can't think of a more boring subject than that, frankly...
I can imagine what kind of people will attend that class
So whats wrong with that? As long as all people can take the class.
It's not a question of who can take the class, but what the content of the class will be.
From the article:
How often have I had to tell white students that they must discuss race in their papers only to have them respond “but there is no race. Everyone I’m studying is white."
It's comments like that which make one suspicious about this woman's class. Is she going to be objective, or does she have a bias towards injecting race into everything she possibly can?
From CNN:
[LEFT]Bonilla-Silva, the author of books like "Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America" and "White Supremacy & Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era," says it is harder than ever before to convince college students that studying white privilege is a worthwhile or necessary endeavor.
To many students the election of Obama represents the culmination of decades of racial progress, they say.
"You have a growing racial apathy. People are telling you, I don't want to hear about race, because we're beyond that," Bonilla-Silva says. "But we still have a white America and a black America."
Read more: Has 'Whiteness Studies' Run Its Course? - Education News Story - WTAE Pittsburgh (http://www.wtae.com/education/30342941/detail.html#ixzz1liJWn9D0 - broken link)[/LEFT]
It reminds me of something I read about a couple years ago where groups that conducted studies about rape were then receiving federal money for rape prevention. Unsurprisingly, the studies from these groups found the prevalence of rape to be much higher than studies on rape done by academics or law enforcement who had no financial stake in the results.
There's a class of people who want to fight against racism, but they don't want to win the battle. Because they're getting paid to fight. If they win then their book sales, the federal grants, the TV interviews, they all dry up.
Interesting. I've been taking this course all of my life, so this class wouldn't be telling me anything new.
Really? What have you learned?
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