The University of Chicago released a statement after a class called The Problem of Whiteness caused an uproar on social media earlier this month.
U. of C. sophomore Daniel Schmidt shared a tweet decrying the class with over 31,000 followers.
“Since I began college a year ago, I’ve documented all the anti-white hatred I’ve seen on campus,” he wrote on Nov. 1. “Without a doubt, this is the most egregious example.”
“A crucial aspect of academic freedom is the ability of instructors to design courses and curricula, including those that foster debate and may lead to disagreement,” Amanda Woodward, dean of the social sciences division at the U. of C., said in a statement.
“While differences of opinion over course material may arise, the university does not cancel classes because of such differences, and the university defends the freedom of instructors to teach any course that has been developed through our faculty-led curricular processes, including courses that may be controversial. The principles of academic freedom apply to everyone who is appointed to teach at the university.”
The Critical Race and Ethnic Studies seminar, which was set to be taught by cultural anthropologist Rebecca Journey in the winter semester, “examines the problem of whiteness through an anthropological lens, drawing from classic and contemporary works of critical race theory,” according to the course description.
In a Twitter thread, Schmidt shared Journey’s email.
The Maroon, the student newspaper at the university , reported that Journey postponed the class till the spring semester after receiving at least 80 objectionable emails.
“These harassing emails have included death threats, veiled threats, and threats of sexual assault, as well as all kinds of misogynistic, racist and antisemitic languages,” she told The Maroon.
The class, she said, will be taught with the same title, description and content in the spring.
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In a dark world, people struggling to cope and survive usually mimic the people that are currently living lives of success. On a worldwide scale of success and prosperity, only one totally obsessed with the color of his skin would deny that “Whiteness more often sides with Rightness” when it comes to economic, scientific, and much human endeavoring success. Back in the 50s 60s when somebody said or did something right that worked and made sense was told “That’s very White of You”, no racial degradation intended. Is it just an accident that white nations run by people of European descent are wealthier and more successful than those nearer the equator? Is it just an accident that when South African countries are run by Whiteness they produce enough food to feed their people, with a surplus left over to export and feed other nations, but soon begin to fail, unable to even feed their own people when the Anglos are run out? Why is it that even after 60 years of granting dark skinned Americans not only equal opportunity, but special social privileges in forced legislation, that the racial successes of the darker communities are still sadly lacking behind, with higher crime rates as soon as once formerly great cites like Detroit/Chicago are turned over to black leaders who create more chaos than they create wealth, in immoral redistributions of large honest wealth? To a pragmatist,,,”If it works it’s good”. Continuing to deny reality is bad.
inluminatuo on November 26, 2022
” In a dark world, people struggling to cope and survive usually mimic the people that are currently living lives of success.”
The life of a Slave must have not been too bad, after all, as some of the black former slaves owned slaves themselves.
Now we are all owned by the multi-racial Government, where tax slavery replaces physical slavery to steal the bread and sweat of those who seek a life of the rewards in honest labor.
Racism at its finest, perpetrated by the same group responsible FOR slavery here.. THE DEMS!
I have seen Blacks coddled my entire life, Backs are supported by the woke government, blacks are given free taxpayer money, food, clothing, housing, medical and free cell phones and still whine that they are not given enough. Jacksonville fire department had a racial complaint that there were not enough Blacks on the fire dept. The reason was not that they didn’t want Blacks on the fire department. They just couldn’t get enough Blacks that could pass the requirements. So Jacksonville lowered the requirements so blacks could pass the requirements.
The next time time you need an EMT or a fireman, you can wonder if that person
dropped out of high school and just got their job because of their race.
In 1964 Congress passed the Civil Rights Act. The provisions of this act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex as well as race in hiring, promoting, and firing. But the government ignore this when it comes to Blacks.
They are the MOST coddled group ever, BUT THEY STILL WHINE ITS NOT enough..
That tells me all i need to know.
I know there are good Black people, but they must be in the minoeity—in a way of speaking. I am sure, too, that all of this Black vs White friction is purposely being stirred up by politicians and the Media—and Black activists, but it is severely testing my resolve to look upon Black people in a good light. I know, too, that Satan is eating this up.
As a simple man trying to understand things, I wonder of God ever regrets making different races and putting thm all together on this planet? I struggle to find meaning in the constant tension and aggravation that exists between Blacks and Whites. I just want to live a peaceful life without all of this garbage.
“…and the university defends the freedom of instructors to teach any course that has been developed through our faculty-led curricular processes, including courses that may be controversial. ”
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so, if someone were to teach a course titled “The Problem with Black People”, then the college would be ok with that??
No, because since its a woke center, NO ONE WOULD EVEN THINK Of making that course up…
When they can’t get a job ,they will cry racism. But that is what the demonrats have taught them to do!!
I’ve taught three generations of black students and each new generation knew less than the preceding ones. Many of those from the 90s on graduated from high school doing fifth grade math and seventh grade English. The oldest generation was very hungry for knowledge and I dearly loved teaching them. Yes, there were many young people who were very good students, and many went to private schools and had parents who cared about what their child was doing and learning in school. The ones who were basic morons are perfect fodder for the liberal left, manipulate and control. Oh, Karl Marx must be laughing!
Critical race theory begins with the idea that white people enslaved black people to work on plantations. Well, I’m here to tell you that not all white people are responsible. No one in my family was even in this nation until 1910, forty-five years (two generations) after slavery was illegal. I feel no guilt for slavery or what followed. Slavery was only legal in the United States from 1776 until 1865, eighty-nine years. Most of the northern states outlawed slavery for decades before the Civil War. None of the West was granted Statehood.
No one alive today was ever born into slavery (in the US) By the same yardstick, no one alive today in these United States ever owned a slave. Stop playing the race card.
I know many black Americans who are hard working, god-fearing, decent human beings. They pay their taxes, keep their property up and obey the law. They don’t do drugs, commit crimes or have babies out of wedlock they expect the rest of us to support.
I also know a few who deserve to be called the N-word.