{"id":785,"date":"2016-12-27T12:06:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T17:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidclarke\/?p=785"},"modified":"2016-12-27T12:06:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T17:06:42","slug":"racist-college-course-teaches-problem-whiteness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidclarke\/2016\/12\/racist-college-course-teaches-problem-whiteness\/","title":{"rendered":"Racist college course teaches \u201cThe Problem of Whiteness\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 536px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/528156277\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 59.514925% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/528156277?et=vWMBywRbRM1IrYuWgDw8Hg&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=ctF8R1ARqTvOEz9OPYMKTJhAH-PMUtYNIwCHBN7T3c8=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"536\" height=\"319\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The University of Wisconsin-Madison offers a ridiculous course in its African Cultural Studies department called \u201cThe Problem of Whiteness.\u201d It\u2019s not hard to imagine that if the course had \u201cBlackness\u201d in the title, there would be rioting in the streets and calls for the heads of everyone responsible. But in this day and age, telling white people they are a problem\u00a0is considered a good thing.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Just one look at <a href=\"http:\/\/african.wisc.edu\/content\/problem-whiteness\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">the course description<\/a> is everything you need to know about how far we\u2019ve fallen as a country in education:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Have you ever wondered what it really means to be white? If you\u2019re like most people, the answer is probably \u201cno.\u201d But here is your chance! \u2026 since white supremacy was created by white people, is it not white folks who have the greatest responsibility to eradicate it? Our class begins here. We will come together with our socially ascribed identities of Black, white, mixed and other and, with the problem properly in its place we will ask ourselves and our allies, what are we going to do with it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Professor Damon Sajnani will lead the charge against whites by exploring how \u201cthey consciously and unconsciously perpetuate institutional racism.\u201d He will also explore with his students on \u201cwhat it means to be #woke\u201d \u2014 or socially and intellectually \u201cenlightened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sajnani even asks his class to \u201cconsider the journal Race Traitor\u2019s motto, \u201ctreason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity.\u201d Again, I dare ask what would happen if \u201cblackness\u201d was substituted: \u201ctreason to blackness is loyalty to humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But look no further than Sajnani\u2019s Twitter activity shortly after five Dallas police officers were massacred during a Black Lives Matter \u201crally\u201d earlier this year. He wrote, \u201cIs the uprising finally starting? Is this style of protest gonna go viral?\u201d Sajnani had also posted a song called \u201cOfficer Down\u201d and said, \u201cWatching CNN, this is the song I am currently enjoying in my head.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How can taxpayers be okay funding a place that hires somebody with these views? And do they even know this course is being taught?<\/p>\n<p>That the questions at least two state legislators are asking regarding the legitimacy of such a blatantly racist class and are calling for it to be <a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2016\/12\/in-this-class-we-will-ask-what-ethical.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">canceled<\/a> or risk a delay in both state funding and a pending tuition increase.<\/p>\n<p>One of the lawmakers, Greenville Rep. Dave Murphy, said he is \u201cextremely concerned that UW-Madison finds it appropriate to teach a course called, \u2018The Problem of Whiteness,\u2019 with the premise that white people are racist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven more troubling, the course is taught by a self-described \u2018international radical\u2019 professor whose views are a slap in the face to the taxpayers who are expected to pay for this garbage,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, college should be a marketplace of ideas, but this is straightforward racism paraded as intellectualism. 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