University to students: 'All whites are racist'
Mandatory program 'treats' politically incorrect attitudes
Posted: October 30, 2007
9:35 p.m. Eastern
By Bob Unruh
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
A mandatory University of Delaware program requires residence
hall students to acknowledge that "all whites are racist" and offers
them "treatment" for any incorrect attitudes regarding class, gender,
religion, culture or sexuality they might hold upon entering the
school, according to a civil rights group.
"Somehow, the University of Delaware seems terrifyingly unaware
that a state-sponsored institution of higher education in the United
States does not have the legal right to engage in a program of
systematic thought reform. The First Amendment protects the
right to freedom of conscience – the right to keep our innermost
thoughts free from governmental intrusion. It also protects the
right to be free from compelled speech," said a letter from
Samantha Harris, director of legal and public advocacy for
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education to university
President Patrick Harker.
The organization cited excerpts from the university's Office
of Residence Life Diversity Education Training documents,
including the statement:
"A RACIST: A racist is one who is both privileged and socialized
on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. 'The
term applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent)
living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion,
culture or sexuality. By this definition, people of color cannot be
racists, because as peoples within the U.S. system, they do not
have the power to back up their prejudices, hostilities, or
acts of discrimination�.'"
The education program also notes that "reverse racism" is "a
term created and used by white people to deny their white
privilege." And "a non-racist" is called "a non-term," because,
the program explains, "The term was created by whites to
deny responsibility for systemic racism, to maintain an aura
of innocence in the face of racial oppression, and to shift the
responsibility for that oppression from whites to people of
color (called 'blaming the victim')."
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