This installment of real racism comes to us from Kenyon College in Ohio.
As reported by Thomas D. Williams, writing for breitbart.com:
A student group formed to address “white privilege” at Ohio’s Kenyon College bars white members from asking questions of a person of color as part of a process to combat racism.
“Racism is a white people problem,” said the group’s student founder, Juniper Cruz—a self-described “Queer Afro-Latinx Muslim”—at the first meeting, which drew about 50 students.
The Whiteness Group, run through the school’s multicultural center, “works to educate students on whiteness, what it means to be white, and ways to deconstruct whiteness to work towards anti-racist actions,” Cruz said in an interview with The Thrill.
The group’s second meeting was attended by Rachel Kessler, an Episcopalian priest and chaplain of Kenyon College, who afterward wrote in an email to the school newspaper, “As white people, we can become paralyzed by our sense of shame for our racial privilege or by our fear of accidentally saying something problematic. Neither of those impulses are actually productive for combating racism and white supremacy.”
Translation: in order to fight racism, let’s create more of it…and then institutionalize that additional racism through having it sanctioned by a so-called “institute of higher education”.
If this were just some off-the-wall group of students, we might chalk it up to a misplaced, perverted sense of idealism. But, assuming Dr. Williams’ article is accurate, this group operates through Kenyon College’s own multicultural center, and is endorsed by the school’s chaplain.
Therefore, singling out, demeaning, and setting a different set of rules for students based on the color of their skin is just fine….depending on which skin color is being singled out. This is supposed to fight racism? In what parallel universe would that be?
Somewhere, six feet beneath the ground in Alabama, what’s left of George Wallace is grinning from ear to ear.
Real racism. It comes in all forms from all sources. No group is immune to it or from it. Certainly not the racists of Kenyon College, who have convinced themselves that racism in the name of fighting racism makes sense.
