Not a good look GaSo....

https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/3933292002?...ssion=true

Racism is real

This is going to cause a huge spike in applications from trailer parks all across Georgia.

Looks like race baiters.

Considering it is south Georgia where poverty and socioeconomic disadvantage for people of all colors is real, the author (A Ph.D no less), should've expected this. But USA Today trying to make a point that's well taken. The South is living like they are in 1930's Germany and still believe it's 1851.

Got it...

I'm white. I understand that I have many privelages over people of color that I REALLY shouldn't. I don't get what's so hard for these kids to understand.

(10-11-2019 10:41 AM)FTE_rawr Wrote:  I'm white. I understand that I have many privelages over people of color that I REALLY shouldn't. I don't get what's so hard for these kids to understand.

It's mind-blowing. I am a white male born into a middle-class family and that alone gives me tremendous advantage over the majority of others on this planet. You are spot on; it's not hard to understand. It is an unwillingness to understand and/or a fear that this advantage may one day evaporate and become an even playing field. Therefore the hostility.

This sure isn't in a way to attract minority student athletes to want to come play at a school.

(10-11-2019 10:21 AM)HighCountry Wrote:  This is going to cause a huge spike in applications from trailer parks all across Georgia.

That Mountaineers graphic is awesome

Me: Let me just open this thread and see what it's all about.


Also me:

(10-11-2019 10:56 AM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  Me: Let me just open this thread and see what it's all about.


Also me:

Yeah

I wonder what kind of grade you get in a class where you go online and are spread in the news all across the country burning the professor's book?

(10-11-2019 10:52 AM)HighlandsApp Wrote:  

(10-11-2019 10:41 AM)FTE_rawr Wrote:  I'm white. I understand that I have many privelages over people of color that I REALLY shouldn't. I don't get what's so hard for these kids to understand.

It's mind-blowing. I am a white male born into a middle-class family and that alone gives me tremendous advantage over the majority of others on this planet. You are spot on; it's not hard to understand. It is an unwillingness to understand and/or a fear that this advantage may one day evaporate and become an even playing field. Therefore the hostility.

This sure isn't in a way to attract minority student athletes to want to come play at a school.

+2 to both of you

It’s sad that I could see I could see the same thing happening at my school.

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

Saying "white people need to realize that they are the problem and that their privilege is toxic" or saying someone has white privilege really doesn't live up to this message.

(10-11-2019 11:04 AM)CheckYosef94 Wrote:  "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

Saying "white people need to realize that they are the problem and that their privilege is toxic" or saying someone has white privilege really doesn't live up to this message.

Pointing out systematic problems and/or advantages doesn't run contrary to Ph.D. King's message.

(10-11-2019 11:04 AM)CheckYosef94 Wrote:  "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

Saying "white people need to realize that they are the problem and that their privilege is toxic" or saying someone has white privilege really doesn't live up to this message.

Pretending privelage doesn't exist doesn't help the situation either.

Someone born into a royal family wouldn’t pretend to be on the same level as the commoners. Obviously that’s a very extreme metaphor, but you could apply the same logic to the “white privilege doesn’t exist” argument.

The 18 year old students definitely reacted poorly and immaturely, but based on what the author said during her lecture, the students had a right to be upset. The author did not come to our campus to facilitate a conversation about race. Based on some of the quotes from her lecture, she was very incendiary and caused the discussion portion of her lecture to be very tense with some of her remarks. Several students got up and walked out.

Unfortunately the university removed the video of her lecture from their website or I would post it here. I still don’t believe burning her book and posting it to social media was the correct way to express their difference of opinion.

The author loves the publicity she’s getting. She’s currently using this story and the headlines to plug her new book titled “My Time Among the Whites” on social media.

(10-11-2019 11:09 AM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  

(10-11-2019 11:04 AM)CheckYosef94 Wrote:  "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

Saying "white people need to realize that they are the problem and that their privilege is toxic" or saying someone has white privilege really doesn't live up to this message.

Pointing out systematic problems and/or advantages doesn't run contrary to Ph.D. King's message.

Saying "white people need to realize that they are the problem and that their privilege is toxic" is not pointing out problems and/or advantages. It's alienating a specific group purely based on the color of their skin.

(10-11-2019 11:09 AM)FTE_rawr Wrote:  

(10-11-2019 11:04 AM)CheckYosef94 Wrote:  "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

Saying "white people need to realize that they are the problem and that their privilege is toxic" or saying someone has white privilege really doesn't live up to this message.

Pretending privelage doesn't exist doesn't help the situation either.

Privilege exists but it's not race related.

(10-11-2019 11:13 AM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote:  The 18 year old students definitely reacted poorly and immaturely, but based on what the author said during her lecture, the students had a right to be upset. The author did not come to our campus to facilitate a conversation about race. Based on some of the quotes from her lecture, she was very incendiary and caused the discussion portion of her lecture to be very tense with some of her remarks. Several students got up and walked out.

Unfortunately the university removed the video of her lecture from their website or I would post it here. I still don’t believe burning her book and posting it to social media was the correct way to express their difference of opinion.

The author loves the publicity she’s getting. She’s currently using this story and the headlines to plug her new book titled “My Time Among the Whites” on social media.

You sound like Trump in Charlottesville "Good people on both sides"

(10-11-2019 11:13 AM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote:  The 18 year old students definitely reacted poorly and immaturely, but based on what the author said during her lecture, the students had a right to be upset. The author did not come to our campus to facilitate a conversation about race. Based on some of the quotes from her lecture, she was very incendiary and caused the discussion portion of her lecture to be very tense with some of her remarks. Several students got up and walked out.

Unfortunately the university removed the video of her lecture from their website or I would post it here. I still don’t believe burning her book and posting it to social media was the correct way to express their difference of opinion.

The author loves the publicity she’s getting. She’s currently using this story and the headlines to plug her new book titled “My Time Among the Whites” on social media.

If she was going about it the wrong way, I see your point. Wish I could see the video of the lecture. Truth is, both extremes of this situation suck. We all need to be better human beings as a whole, and lift each other up.