Posted on 04/09/2008 9:53:12 AM PDT by CedarDave
An invitation to a "diversity workshop" sent to Sandia Labs employees last week by labs management has drawn complaints because of its suggestion that white people are inherently racist.
"Recent studies suggest whites' lack of awareness about other cultures has to do with whites' commitment to maintaining higher social status, or 'white privilege,' '' the invitation said.
It also said whites "are likely to persist in racist behaviors unless persuaded to abolish the privileges they receive as members of the white race."
Sandia staff received a dozen calls from employees upset about the wording, labs spokesman Michael Padilla said.
He said Sandia apologized to employees offended by the e-mail. But Sandia's position is that it was not responsible for the wording ...
The e-mail ... encouraged labs workers to sign up for the 19th Annual Diversity Forum. It summarized a talk on "white privilege" by University of New Mexico faculty member Ricky Lee Allen at the April 24 forum.
The text of the e-mail about Allen's talk on "White Privilege and Diversity" was excerpted nearly verbatim from the flier and Web site on the diversity forum. It was not written by Sandia staff, Padilla said.
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Allen, a professor in UNM's College of Education, specializes in the study of race in education. In a 2000 book on the subject, Allen and two colleagues argued that white culture in the United States perpetrates widespread and unacknowledged racism ...
"To be a person of color in white territory is to be monitored, marked and excluded," Allen and his colleagues wrote. "To be white in white territory is to be able to pass the gaze of its bourgeois sentries." Central to this tacit racism ... is a desire by white people to retain the privileged place race provides for them in contemporary society.
(Excerpt) Read more at abqjournal.com ...
Allen's just another socialist UNM faculty member preaching the Black liberation theology that only whites can be racist. And while doing so he is indoctrinating his students about white guilt and softening them up for another round of government regulations and tax-payer funded bailouts.
NM list PING!
Those darn “bourgeois sentries...” always gotta be keepin’ a brother down.
Oh well, that makes it OK then. Never mind. Just move along now.
I've heard of this program before and find it offensive that someone is making money this way. I expect the race-baiters like Jackson, Sharpton, Farrakhan, et al, to buy into this BS, but to take it onto the Sandia Labs campus (or anywhere else) is offensive and obscene.
Checked and checked again... nope, not the Onion.
But Sanndia can boot the workshop and the contractor out if the contractor doesn't deliver a satisfactory apology in writing to each offended person.
guilt ridden liberals and the legal dept.
Typical slough off the blame on some undefined 'Other'. Didn't this A$$hat read it before sending it out to employees.
This White Guilt crap has got to stop, but when?
Obviously not the scientists.
“a desire by white people to retain the privileged place race provides for them in contemporary society.” Excuse me.....go in to an all black area, go into an all Korean area, go into and all Mexican area. This stuff is just life and they are trying to tear down the white culture. They can go to hell.
I am a racist because I believe the American culture up to this point has been the most successful culture ever devised....that the American way offers a path to fame and riches and contentment and peaceful coexistance that few if any other cultures in the history of the world have offered....
I am racist....
The problem with this country is not white racism, it’s black racism.
The world is not ready for a black racist, muslim, radical as president.
A sign of things to come. Get used to it.
No. Whites' lack of awareness (if any) has to do with the fact that whites tend not to see people as ethnic entities, but rather as fellow human beings. All whites are mutts and tend to see all others as mutts; and that is very liberating.
But American voters may well be poised to elect one.
LMAO!!
Can you imagine the gaggle of morons who would show up at something like this "forum"?
Good answer. Management is Lockheed-Martin with DOE oversight.
As a white kid raised in Appalachia I’m still wondering what exactly white priviledge is?
Amen
I’d tell them to go to hell. Fire me for insensitivity if you dare.
Doesn’t sound like too many lab workers are going to sign up and be forced to listen to racist rants.
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Could they possibly define “racism”, I’m left guessing that it has something to do with voodoo.
Really? Where I work, to be a person of no-color (eyes rolling) is to be marked, monitored and assumed as privileged. And you know what? That kind of stings when you know you aren't one of the "privileged."
We have a Special women's "Networking" group, Latino networking and self help group, a special African Americans networking group. It's just assumed that whitey's already got his group, but apparently I don't know where the meetings are held or who to pay the dues to.
"Okay, Whitey, sit down, listen up, shut up and PAY up."
Let obamama into the WH and there will be blood in the streets as his "Quiet Riots" break out.
Good God = this is nothing but 'reprogramming' of the most insidious scale. I don't think even Communist Russia cast this wide a net...
Whites consider themselves AMERICANS first! No hyphens or color to distinguish and/or separate.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Typical white person bump.
After reparations will come the “white privilege” sin tax.
Sure would be appropriate to call more attention to the ever increasing “Black Racist” population in this country.
The DOE is full of liberal steaming piles. Thankfully, I have worked with USAF, Army, and Marines, which means that it is rare that you come across a flaming liberal turd. Of course if they’re on fire, the question is whether or not it’s worth stamping them out.
"Dude...where's my whiteness seminar?!"
This makes me angry.
We are told that only white people can be racist because only white people have the “power structure” to do anything with their prejudice.
If the president of the united states is non-white, will that demographic suddenly have the “power” to be racists or will they still be free to be racists without rebuke?
if I worked there I would be looking into a lawsuit with a high powered lawyer claiming mental cruelty and anguish.... hostile work environment and anything else I could....
Sounds like a good day to be absent down at Molly's.
“....bourgeois.....”
A word and concept favored by communists, their fellow travelers, the naive, class and race baiting hucksters, and college professors, I believe.
Socialists use issues of “diversity”, “racism”, and “discrimination” to stir up discontent and to stifle dissent.
If you oppose Obama or Clinton, you are a racist or a sexist.
You have freedom in this country to vote, comrade. You do not have the freedom to have a political opinion.
I have no idea of his race or ethnicity.
See his picture, post #38
The world is not ready for a MARXIST as president.
There’s only one solution to the “race” problem..........................got enough ammo?
Allen must not be white or he would realize that how one is dressed, how one acts, patterns of speech, and general demeanor are judged of whites by whites as well.
I reckon he never heard that cracker was a term not for all whites, but for poor, low-class farmers and sharecroppers.
It is the racist blacks who have tried to make it into a generic.
I also offer "white trash", "trailer trash", and "from the wrong side of the tracks" as a few examples of whites who are often looked down upon by those who merely buy their suits off the rack...who are looked down upon by the nouveau riche, who in turn are looked askance at by the "old money".
In short, Allen's racism is apparent by lumping all whites into one category.
The only people who are keeping any of these people down is themselves.
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