Posted on 03/12/2019 2:00:34 PM PDT by rickmichaels
San Diego State University is set to host a “Racial Healing Workshop” for minority students and faculty later this month that aims to help students and professors of color get through college and career life.
“This intimate one and a half hour Racial Healing Workshop catered to students and faculty of color will be led by well-known professional Dr. Cheryl E. Matias,” state the student organizers of the event, the Marriage and Family Therapy Association, a recognized student organization under the College of Education.
“She will provide a safe space for students and faculty of color to discuss issues that impact persons of color in higher academia,” the event’s online description states. “Dr. Matias will facilitate group healing and she will provide tools to help POC [people of color] navigate racialized spaces such as higher education and professional fields.”
Called “Taking Back Our Truths: Healing Circle,” it is scheduled for March 22 at the public university’s student union building.
The healing circle takes place after another, similar event on campus called “Taking Back our Truths: Deconstructing Whiteness in Academia and Embracing Racial Justice and Healing workshop.” This too will be hosted at San Diego State through the student therapy association.
According to the deconstructing whiteness workshop’s online description, Matias will give a one hour research-driven lecture on whiteness in higher academia and the negative impacts it has on people of color.
“This workshop will raise awareness about the challenges that universities face in attracting, supporting and retaining students and faculty of color. In addition, the research-driven lecture will also provide tools for white identified faculty who work with students of color to help raise consciousness about allyship in academia and professional fields,” the event’s website states.
Reached for comment by The College Fix, Monica Everett-Haynes, a university spokesperson for SDSU’s Office of the President, stated that the deconstructing whiteness workshop may help reduce discrimination and racism at the school.
“The event is designed to connect students and faculty of diverse backgrounds to understand the experiences of people from minoritized backgrounds. Those who attend will discuss issues of race and identify tools necessary to help students and faculty to work collaboratively and to support one another in ways that may help reduce instances of discrimination and racism,” Everett-Haynes wrote.
“[SDSU’s student] groups regularly host programs and events collectively to explore and dialogue about discipline-specific topics related to careers, community engagement and service, philanthropy, spirituality and religion, race, class, cultural traditions and numerous other topics and interests. Participation in such programs and events is optional, not mandatory,” Everett-Haynes said. “This type of interaction helps to honor SDSU’s vision and mission to support a diverse and inclusive campus climate, which benefits us all, not merely specific groups.”
Cheryl Matias and the Marriage and Family Therapy Association did not respond to an inquiry from The College Fix for comment.
Healing circles are not new to San Diego State. In 2016, it hosted a “Healing Circle” to help students process their confusion, anger and fear over Donald Trump’s election and develop ways to stand against “injustice.”
Creating special rights or special privileges depending on where you come from is called Racism.
Unless you are a liberal.
“Racism is good when we do it.”
I wish groups of white students at every school where this sort of thing happens would form a “whites-only” support group. The ensuing fireworks and outrage from all the usual hypocrites would be entertaining.
Sissies need their “safe space.” LOL.
What a bunch of babies.
… and class, -that concludes today’s lesson in spreading hatred and discontentment!
No special privileges for anyone!
... and what if they would claim to be a minority when they weren’t and got in that way? (Oh, I guess that’s ok if you’re a Democrat, eh KemoSabe and Hussain)
What issues do they have?
When I was in college, I woke up. I walked to campus. I attended my first morning class. I walked to my other morning classes. Then I walked home and made a sandwhich or ramen for lunch. Then I walked back to campus a couple of days a week for afternoon labs. Then I hung out with friends, studied, ate dinner and drank too much beer. While walking across campus and attending lectures, I was never once witness to a single racist remark or action, and this was way back in the late 80s before everyone was woke.
So who is interfering with their ability to walk to school, take classes, study, and hang out with friends. Who is taunting them and calling them racist names? In this day and age I seriously doubt anybody is giving them grief, as that is the worlds quickest way to get expelled.
Total lunacy, but don’t be fooled into thinking most students don’t see this for what it is.
My 2 college-attending sons tell me these things are only attended by homosexuals, sissies, and angry, ugly women.
The student body as a whole laughs at them.
Oh fer cryin’ out loud. How about they sit down and learn some chemistry, some math, some history, maybe some English or philsophy? No-—instead the college caters to their inner infant and wastes their time and its resources putting on lunatic nonsense like this.
Schools come up with all sorts of reasons to ban the AA bake sales because it’s too embarrassingly close to schools’ own admissions policies.
So ... segregation?
I wonder if any students will actually attend this silly workshop experiment.
It’s insanity that was spread by Obama. He could have done so much to bring people together, but his mission was to destroy and mission was accomplished with much more coming.
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