You won’t be shocked to learn he portrays white people are evil oppressors benefiting from systemic racism.

Montana State University (MSU) hosted a “public dialogue” last Tuesday so people could “gain [a] better understanding of what white privilege means in a predominantly white state.”

According to MSU’s calendar events page, “Unpacking White Privilege in Montana: A Public Dialogue,” featured Tobin Miller Shearer, the university’s coordinator of African American Studies and an assistant professor of history.

“To be white in America is to claim an identity that attempts to be de-racialized and is predicated upon the receipt of power and privilege simply on one’s appearance: a racialized appearance from the fundamental equations that whiteness equals access to power and privilege based on one’s racial identity,” Shearer explains in a YouTube video by the MSU Exponent.

Shearer argues that every major economic, health, educational, and justice statistic can be traced to systemic racism. Addressing that racism, he says, will require “engaging and organizing efforts that are no longer predicated with white people no longer being in charge of how the change happens, no longer with white people being the ones to make the decisions about what the emphasis of the organizing efforts will be, but rather look for truly mutlicultural and multiracial collectives that have a common understanding of the way racism acts.”

http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5412

Our kids and their kids will look back at White Slavery with most distain for the Whites whom helped propagate it.

The idea of looking at history and such through a particular lens, say economics like Karl Marx did, or any other singular thought type can be useful as a tool to better understand the depth and complexity of history and human interaction. But, if you look at it through a singular lens and then try to claim that is the sum total of the truth then you'll find that you are no longer dealing in reality but a contrived and inaccurate historical retelling.

It's a tool, not some magical revelation.

Anyone besides me think the dude is awfully pale to be an African-American Studies Coordinator.

Then maybe that demonstrates his point, and there are no black people in Montana.

This is when the good citizens of Montana should stand up and demand that he be fired. It's their tax dollars funding MSU, and it's not to propagate nonsense like this.

This guy doesn't understand that he's the racist.

Amazingly, he's also white.

I don't see anything wrong at all with his statement.

Shearer argues that every major economic, health, educational, and justice statistic can be traced to systemic racism. Addressing that racism, he says, will require “engaging and organizing efforts that are no longer predicated with white people no longer being in charge of how the change happens, no longer with white people being the ones to make the decisions about what the emphasis of the organizing efforts will be, but rather look for truly mutlicultural and multiracial collectives that have a common understanding of the way racism acts.”

(02-03-2014 02:19 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  I don't see anything wrong at all with his statement.

Shearer argues that every major economic, health, educational, and justice statistic can be traced to systemic racism. Addressing that racism, he says, will require “engaging and organizing efforts that are no longer predicated with white people no longer being in charge of how the change happens, no longer with white people being the ones to make the decisions about what the emphasis of the organizing efforts will be, but rather look for truly mutlicultural and multiracial collectives that have a common understanding of the way racism acts.”

Maybe we should import some African leaders here to call the shots then. I mean, they've done so well leading their countries to prosperity. Oh, wait.........................

(02-03-2014 02:19 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  I don't see anything wrong at all with his statement.

That's because you have a particularly low IQ.

Dumb people are, well, dumb.

(02-03-2014 02:19 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  I don't see anything wrong at all with his statement.

Shearer argues that every major economic, health, educational, and justice statistic can be traced to systemic racism. Addressing that racism, he says, will require “engaging and organizing efforts that are no longer predicated with white people no longer being in charge of how the change happens, no longer with white people being the ones to make the decisions about what the emphasis of the organizing efforts will be, but rather look for truly mutlicultural and multiracial collectives that have a common understanding of the way racism acts.”

You don't have a problem with a belief that "EVERY major economic, health, educational, and justice statistic can be traced to systemic racism. "?

It's such a vague reference but I think every one of his statistics can probably be traced to genetics and family environment moreso than simple racism. Some things cannot be overcome by who's in charge of decision making. The NBA will remain mostly black. Mensa will remain mostly white. There is no quick fix to these trends. It is reality. Some people try to "fix" things that cannot be fixed. Inequality does not necessarily equate injustice.

LOL the typical guilty white liberal telling blacks how they should feel.

What a joke this guy is. African American Studies. Ha ha ha

(02-03-2014 02:19 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  I don't see anything wrong at all with his statement.

Shearer argues that every major economic, health, educational, and justice statistic can be traced to systemic racism. Addressing that racism, he says, will require “engaging and organizing efforts that are no longer predicated with white people no longer being in charge of how the change happens, no longer with white people being the ones to make the decisions about what the emphasis of the organizing efforts will be, but rather look for truly mutlicultural and multiracial collectives that have a common understanding of the way racism acts.”

White privilege is the same as male privilege or height privilege. It's just a recognition that being in a certain group gives you advantages over those not in that group. No big story there. I think that we can all agree that there are more benefits in American society by being white, male or over 6ft tall.

(02-03-2014 02:48 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  White privilege is the same as male privilege or height privilege. It's just a recognition that being in a certain group gives you advantages over those not in that group. No big story there. I think that we can all agree that there are more benefits in American society by being white, male or over 6ft tall.

If your benefits include jealous people wanting to destroy you then you may be right, but only if you're a straight white male over 6'0 tall.

I wonder what this black American studies professor would do if you called him a wannabe n*gg*r. I would pay for his ticket to the old stomping grounds of Africa to see just how long his lily white ass would last.

(02-03-2014 03:15 PM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(02-03-2014 02:48 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  White privilege is the same as male privilege or height privilege. It's just a recognition that being in a certain group gives you advantages over those not in that group. No big story there. I think that we can all agree that there are more benefits in American society by being white, male or over 6ft tall.

If your benefits include jealous people wanting to destroy you then you may be right, but only if you're a straight white male over 6'0 tall.

I'm 6'0" and would be the first to admit jealousy and anger at a 6'4"+ dude with no athletic ability. However, I'm sure there is 5'2" dude who feels the same about me.

(02-03-2014 03:19 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  

(02-03-2014 03:15 PM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(02-03-2014 02:48 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  White privilege is the same as male privilege or height privilege. It's just a recognition that being in a certain group gives you advantages over those not in that group. No big story there. I think that we can all agree that there are more benefits in American society by being white, male or over 6ft tall.

If your benefits include jealous people wanting to destroy you then you may be right, but only if you're a straight white male over 6'0 tall.

I'm 6'0" and would be the first to admit jealousy and anger at a 6'4"+ dude with no athletic ability. However, I'm sure there is 5'2" dude who feels the same about me.

White dude?

(02-03-2014 02:27 PM)blunderbuss Wrote:  

(02-03-2014 02:19 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  I don't see anything wrong at all with his statement.

Shearer argues that every major economic, health, educational, and justice statistic can be traced to systemic racism. Addressing that racism, he says, will require “engaging and organizing efforts that are no longer predicated with white people no longer being in charge of how the change happens, no longer with white people being the ones to make the decisions about what the emphasis of the organizing efforts will be, but rather look for truly mutlicultural and multiracial collectives that have a common understanding of the way racism acts.”

You don't have a problem with a belief that "EVERY major economic, health, educational, and justice statistic can be traced to systemic racism. "?

Frankly, I'm surprised that it's not already common knowledge.