(White Privilege Conference, April 18-21, 2007)
“A yearly opportunity to examine and explore difficult issues related to white privilege, white supremacy and oppression.”
(White Privilege Conference, April 18-21, 2007)
This excerpt is from Wizbang
How would you feel if you were told that your high school aged child was being forced to attend a White Privilege Conference? Your first reaction might be to ask "what is a White Privilege Conference?" In brief, it's an indoctrination camp:
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White people, you're privileged, and guilty, guilty, guilty of oppressing disadvantaged minorities. Denial only makes things worse.
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This is the message currently emanating from the Seattle School District. Never mind that this dubious construct undercuts needed emphasis on minority student achievement. . .
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Last week was a tremendous week for the Race-card Industry – both good and bad. Don Imus spewed his last bit of racist shock-jock venom and got fired, and the Duke lacrosse players were finally declared innocent.
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What a comparison and contrast last week revealed! Interestingly enough, both issues involved university sports teams. I’ll leave speculation about that connection to the pop psychologists. On the other hand, we have two-way racism when comparing these cases. Don Imus, an aged White liberal male disparaging Black women contrasted against the rich, young, White, male, Duke lacross victims of a Black female false accuser, Crystal Gayle Mangum, and her liberal race-card industry accomplices.
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They couldn’t have dreamed this up in Hollywood! Of course, they wouldn’t have touched this in Hollywood either!
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Will the Imus story ever cool down? Not quite yet and perhaps that’s good as the MSM continues to promote a national dialog on racism. Imus, after all, was a media darling (especially to the left) and when he crossed the line by making blatant racist and sexist remarks about the Rutgers' womens basketball team, he had to be removed from his radio throne by those who usually looked the other way. I rather suspect that if he had been a conservative darling, the liberal outrage would not have been as great. It's in the liberal game plan to promote the notion that all conservatives are racists. Hypocrisy, after all, is the thin veil worn by many liberals and pandering to minorities the notion of “eternal victimization” is the race-card end-game.
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Back to the real victims – the three “White Privileged” Duke lacrosse players. Will district attorney, Mike Nifong, face displinary hearings, be disbarred, or face criminal charges? He should! He should be held to the highest standards of accountability.
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Will the MSM ever use the name of the criminal accuser, Crystal Gayle Mangum? They must stop shielding her because she appears to be mentally unbalanced. She should face criminal charges as well. But that’s doubtful because of the MSM pressure to go lightly on certain segments of the population.
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If mental instability is the new guideline for whether or not criminal charges are pressed, we can empty all of the jails today!!!
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If you happened to catch Michelle Malkin when she subbed last week for The O'Reilly Factor,that was quite a show! Here’s what Malkin said:
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. . .Malik Shabazz, leader of the "New Black Panther Party," refuses to apologize for lynching the innocent Duke lacrosse players--and then proceeds to call me a "political prostitute" and mouthpiece for whites. Like I haven't heard that a half-million times before. (The Left's whore fixation continues. See also: The vile bile we have to put up with.) . . .
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So Shabazz and his ilk are not going to let truth stand in the way of their race-baiting road to fame, power, and control. It could work for the New Black Panthers if, and only if, they can convince enough Blacks that they are the “eternal victims” of Whites. Hitler played that game quite well against the Jews.
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Is the Race-card Industry dying a slow death? Hardly! It’s just becoming far more entrenched.
Here’s an excerpt from Vincent Carroll’s article Whitewash.
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. . .Yes, it’s time again for the annual White Privilege Conference, which is hosted this year by the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, and whose sponsors include the University of Denver’s Center for Judaic Studies and the Southern Poverty Law Center, among other groups. No self-respecting progressive will want to miss it. . .
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You won’t want to miss the keynote speeches, either.
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For example, Paula Rothenberg will address the “struggle over victimhood.” More specifically, according to the conference guide, she’ll explore “What is at stake in the struggle over who can claim victim status as we carry out a conversation about white privilege.” . . .
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Most white guys past their prime don’t talk like Imus and have no desire to, and now Imus himself has been fired. His sole enduring legacy, unfortunately, is to feed the victimhood lobby, in all of its multiplying forms, with more grist for their destructive mills.
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Here are some other bloggers on the White Privilege Conference:
Riehl World View said:
White Privilege? Give Me A Break
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via Opinion Journal - talk about gag me with a spoon. This stuff is sick.
The Seattle School District is sending students to a 'white privilege' conference The diversity gathering in Colorado will highlight "the destructive power" of whiteness and empower students to tackle "oppression."
via Opinion Journal - talk about gag me with a spoon. This stuff is sick.
The Seattle School District is sending students to a 'white privilege' conference The diversity gathering in Colorado will highlight "the destructive power" of whiteness and empower students to tackle "oppression."
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Get in touch with your "White Privilege" [Travis Kavulla]
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The annual "White Privilege Conference #8"—yes, there've been seven already—is underway in a couple weeks' time in Colorado. And you better make reservations soon because, incredibly, the Colorado Springs Sheraton is fully booked!
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. . .the goal of the gathering is to make people more aware of the "negative historical implications of 'Whiteness,'" to "difuse [sic] the destructive power" of whiteness, and to encourage students to become "champions" of social justice and change.
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But, what happens to the Race-card Industry when most of America becomes a mix of many mixed races??? Is time running out for Racism???
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According to DAVID CRARY AP National Writer
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. . .the number of interracial marriages has soared; for example, black-white marriages increased from 65,000 in 1970 to 422,000 in 2005, according to Census Bureau figures. Factoring in all racial combinations, Stanford University sociologist Michael Rosenfeld calculates that more than 7 percent of America's 59 million married couples in 2005 were interracial, compared to less than 2 percent in 1970.
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No, sadly, the Race-card Industry won’t die. It will continually transform. The Race-card Industry is just another name for the Hate-card Industry. Since the beginning of time all despots and their mindless minions have always attempted to engender hate, foster national divisions, and to create willing victims.
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The last thing any hate-card player wants is to create the notion of national unity!
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There will always be a market for the creation of new victims and their supposed oppressors.
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The best guess is that religious freedom will be the next target. We are already seeing the beginnings of the creation of the American Islamic Victims Card, and along with that will come new concessions and special privileges.
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Here’s a point that needs to be made again, again, and again. We can’t choose our race or ethnic background. In most cases, we can’t choose or change our gender, at least until we are over the age of consent. In matters where humans have no control, the continued dialogue of how to eradicate racism is a noble pursuit.
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Just about everything else that defines us, however, is a behavioral choice. In America we are free to choose our religion; we are not condemned to remain forever practicing our father’s religion. Like religion, we are free to choose our political parties. Choice of religion and political affiliation is every American’s right. Along with that freedom of choice is the freedom to compare, to contrast, and to criticize the differences among religions and political parties.
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But what if a religion or a political party threatens the sovereignty and security of a nation? Are we American’s are free to condemn that religion or party?
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The fastest growing religion in the world is Islam. Islam, although heavily populated and defined by Mid-eastern cultures, is not confined to a particular race or ethnic background. Anyone can become a Muslim regardless of race, culture, or ethnicity.
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It is very important when discussing the dangers of the Islamists in their attempts to politicize and undermine the religion of Islam, that we never attack the ethnic groups and cultures that are heavily Islamic. Additionally, it is important to maintain the separation between religion and government, so that special privileges are not afforded to any religion, movement, or political organization – especially those political ideologies that are merely masquerading as a culturally-defined religion in need of special privileges.
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This is why it is absolutely imperative that America must come to terms with defining what is and is not a religion.
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Other good reads on this subject:
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