The Red Line
By Mitch Berg
Clearly, all of America’s school problems have been solved.
No, we know this, because thousands of American teachers will be taking time off during the school year to attend a conference on “white privilege”.
The annual event is aimed at promoting the theory of White Privilege – that American society is hopelessly stacked against minorities and the only way to fix the system is for white people to acknowledge their immense “privilege” and repent.
Which brings up the two questions:
- What is “white privilege”
- What is it that you’d have us do about it.
The first? Even asking will get you called a racists (as I found out on one particularly bobbleheaded neighborhood Facebook forum a few weeks back). But one BLM activist defined it for me pretty well, last summer: it’s being able to go into a room and not have everyone wondering if you’re “one of the good ones”.
Which sounds, to me, like freedom and equality. Which may be a “privilege”, but it’s also supposed to be one of this nation’s ideals.
As opposed to this next bit (emphasis added):
“Our vision is to build a community committed to dismantling white privilege, white supremacy and oppression, every day, everywhere,” wrote Eddie Moore Jr., founder and president of “The Privilege Institute,” which organizes the event.
If “privilege” is equality, freedom, justice, and being seen as a person rather than a label, then you’ll “dismantle” it over my dead body. You don’t gain freedom and equality by taking others’ away. The Germans didn’t get any more free by killing Jews; the Klan got no more justice by lynching black people.
Repent, my ass. It’s time to spread “privilege” around to all races, classes, orientations, religions, humans.
If this is the place where the civil war starts, then lock and m********ng load.
Rhetorically speaking, of course.
April 18th, 2016 at 12:00 pm
I am offended that Mr. Moore expressed his mission statement in English, a language developed by White people for White people, the use of which is one of White people’s exclusive privileges. This is an extreme act of blatant cultural appropriation. I demand he henceforth say everything in a non-White language. Advance warning: French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese are also off-limits.
April 18th, 2016 at 1:20 pm
I’m donating $100 to Planned Parenthood this afternoon. I may volunteer as an escort, too. I don’t want any delay in making Margaret Sanger’s dream a reality.
April 18th, 2016 at 3:34 pm
Summer vacation, spring break, Christmas break, “MEA days”, and they’ve got to take time off from class for this? I realize that many teachers like to get employment over the summer and the like, but hello? Not too many others get something like 15 weeks off per year. They can’t use the breaks they already have exactly….why?
And yes, actually asking for a definition and an operating hypothesis is too much to ask these days. If you did that, you might actually get progress instead of perpetual grievances.
April 19th, 2016 at 3:22 am
State and federal education departments hire lots of people with PhDs in education. You don’t think that they sit around figuring out better ways to teach your children, do you? There are very good reasons why Bill Ayres went into the government education business.
April 19th, 2016 at 10:49 am
Actually, the question– “is this one of the good ones”– is exactly the proper one. And the proper “something to do about it” is to make the question entirely due to racism, having first remedied the whopping difference in criminal behavior, illegitimacy, poor education and bad attitudes that mark your “community” and make the question necessary.
April 19th, 2016 at 2:50 pm
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April 20th, 2016 at 2:52 pm
I have the incredibly unsophisticated response of “You want me to quit wondering if you’re “one of the good ones”? Then how about you work on getting some of your community members to quit committing crime (and expecting to be given special “privilege” to NOT be held accountable for said crimes) and/or demanding welfare in all its various forms, as opposed to being a productive citizen? Reduce the number of “not one of the good ones” so we don’t have to wonder.”
April 20th, 2016 at 2:53 pm
Or what J. Ewing said, too.