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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
Probably kids who attend schools where they proped up minorities and blamed white people for all the problems in the world.
To mind black folks business, and leave white folks to their own devices. I also learned to discard a few lessons...like a few my grandfather taught me (the curriculum changed since his day) and try to see folks for what they are...and treat them accordingly.
This actually seems like a really interesting course. Reminds me of a Book I intend to read, "How the Irish Became White".
Jews and Catholics were not really considered white in early America and Irish in particular climbed the social ladder using African Americans.
To mind black folks business, and leave white folks to their own devices. I also learned to discard a few lessons...like a few my grandfather taught me (the curriculum changed since his day) and try to see folks for what they are...and treat them accordingly.
That seems strange. So your goal in life is to have as little interaction as possible with 73% of the population?
...[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]
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The public is maturing and realizing that race isn't important and that we should judge people by who they are and what they accomplish, rather than by the color of their skin. To a large extent, in many areas, that has already happened. In many ways, Kings "dream" has been reached.
What the heck are whiny-azzed, race baiting, overpaid liberal professors with a background in basket weaving classes ever going to do? Without race baiting they are out of a job. They would have to look for meaningful, productive work to do...Oh the horror....
That seems strange. So your goal in life is to have as little interaction as possible with 73% of the population?
I want as much interaction with everyone i can interact with. I'm not misanthropic, nor am i a racist. The portion of that 73% that's don't mind interacting with me are fine...nothing but love. The portion that doesn't can go pound sand. I'm not begging to be associated with.
I just don't meddle in affairs between white folks. If some white person wants to have a class about the topic of white people, i certainly have no issue with that.
And the course is about the sociology of racial identity, how racial identity has a greater context than mere DNA. Since our society has been dominated by "white" narratives, the source of information about white racial identity is more easily accessed, which is why the professor has chosen to focus the class the way that she has.
i cant believe that people pay 80 bucks a unit for this 3rd rate entertainment.
what a waste of money and to go into debt to do it? OMG.
why dont people go to manila to get their education, pennies on the dollar, and skip this nonsense and debt.
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