He was placed on temporary leave, but not fired, and the college actually defended him. “Williams’s actions and words were protected by academic freedom and did not violate Trinity College policies,” said President Joanne Berger-Sweeny.251
The “Problem” with Whiteness
The University of Michigan held a conference titled “Conversations on Whiteness” to “help” white employees become better social justice warriors by teaching them to “recognize the difficulties they face when talking about social justice issues related to their White Identity, explore this discomfort, and devise ways to work through it.”252
A professor at Fairfield University in Connecticut who taught entire courses on “Black Lives Matter” and “Critical Race Theory” says that, “any critical investigation of race should devote some time to the problem that is whiteness.”253 Just being white is a problem now. The professor claims that, “Whiteness means a specific power apparatus that exists at the expense of the disempowerment of black people,” and insists, “To be white in the U.S. is to be a perpetuator of the power apparatus unless one actively and consistently resists.”254
Of course, the professor says that it is necessary for white people, “to acknowledge one’s personal implications in the white power apparatus,” which apparently means we’re supposed to feel guilty about being white.
A sociology professor at CUNY [the City University of New York] declared, “Part of what I’ve learned is that the white-nuclear family is one of the most powerful forces supporting white supremacy.”255 She went on to elaborate that, “I mean, if you’re a white person who says they’re engaged in dismantling white supremacy, but you’re forming a white family [and] reproducing white children that ‘you want the best for’ — how is that helping [and] not part of the problem?”256
She made the statements on Twitter, and later put her account on private after her tweets started making headlines. She has a verified account, indicating that it wasn’t a fake account set up by a student who was trying to get her in trouble. Her bio page on the university website claims she’s “an internationally recognized expert on Internet manifestations of racism.”257 Maybe they meant an expert on creating manifestations of racism.
A Day Without White People
Students at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington came up with the idea for “A Day Without White People” on campus and demanded that all white students and professors not come to school on their special day so “people of color” could enjoy the campus without the presence of white people.258 Bizarrely, many of the professors went along with the idea, but one who refused became the target of an angry mob of students who gathered outside of his classroom and demanded that he be fired! “Hey-hey, ho-ho, these racist teachers have got to go,” they chanted.259
The president of the college later issued a statement, not denouncing the angry mob of students for their ridiculous (and racist) ideas and actions, but thanking them for their “passion and courage.” His statement began, “I’m George Bridges, I use he/him pronouns,” catering to the gender identity insanity that’s sweeping across American campuses and making it clear that he too is infected with the liberal pathogen.260
“Progressive Stacking”
A teaching assistant at the University of Pennsylvania named Stephanie McKellop tweeted about how she calls on white men last during classroom discussions. “I will always call on my black women students first. Other POC [people of color] get second tier priority. WW [white women] come next. And, if I have to, white men.”261 As you may expect, this kind of favoritism isn’t just being practiced by this one random teaching assistant. Liberals have a name for choosing blacks and Latinos over whites in the classroom, in what they call “progressive stacking.”262
The practice appears to have stemmed from the Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011, where people from “traditionally marginalized groups” were favored to speak at events over others (meaning over straight white men). The “Radical Teacher Journal” published an article in 2013 featuring an Occupy Wall Street-inspired course that incorporated the “progressive stack” which it described as, “calling on those who had not spoken (or rarely spoke), women, queer-identified students, and students of color before we called on regular talkers, white, straight, and/or male students.”263
Ohio State University hosted a “Transnational Feminism” conference in 2014 which promoted the tactic as well.264 Other teaching assistants and academics have also supported it, saying that the progressive stack is an “established method of facilitating discussion.”265
Reparations
A group of black students at the University of Chicago demanded that the school pay them reparations for slavery, and hoped to use the money to fund a new African American Studies department.266 They also complained about the “damages” that Capitalism has done to America, calling it a “monstrosity.” “Reparations promise us a monumental re-birthing of America,” they said. “Like most births, this one will be painful. But the practice of reparations must continue until the world that slavery built is rolled up and a new order spread out in its place.”267
A bar in Portland, Oregon hosted what they called “Reparations Happy Hour” for black people to gather and discuss their hopes of one day getting reparations passed while they enjoyed free drinks paid for by white people who donated to their cause.268 If they don’t have enough money to pay their bills and feel they need reparations to help, then going drinking at a bar is probably the last thing they should be doing, but common sense isn’t something liberals are familiar with.
Many blacks still dream of getting reparations in the form of free money from the government, paid by white tax dollars. At a campaign event a few months before the 2018 midterm election, crazy congresswoman Maxine Waters was asked about it by a man from the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America. “The global reparations movement is advancing mightily on the planet,” he began, insisting that black people, “need someone to stand up and push this legislation forward.”269 He then asked her to sponsor H.R. 40, a ridiculous reparations bill proposed by Democrat Representative John Conyers in 1989.
“I’d be happy to do that. That’s no problem,” she answered. “But let me tell you this. In order to get where we need to go on this issue and other issues, we really got to understand that 2018 [midterm election] is important in taking back the House and taking back the Senate. And of course, we’ve got to get the White House back.”270
She went on to say, “If we want to get to the point where we can get reparations, we’ve got to have the power to do that, number one, by having a supportive president would be wonderful, but taking back the House would be absolutely wonderful, and so yes.”
There is a simple solution for black people who are incessantly upset by whites dominating the culture and being the majority in the United States of America. They can go back to Africa. If their ancestors weren’t brought here, as horrible of a process as it was, then the black people wanting reparations for it today may be living in a grass hut with dirt floors, no running water, and roasting snakes over a bonfire for dinner.