As Dale pointed out in the comments below, one of the presenters at this past weekend's Call to Action (CTA) conference was Shakti Butler.
Michelle Malkin's been all over the indoctrination "treatment" at the University of Delaware. I am only going to touch on it briefly, since writing about the moronic, biased, hateful, racist screeds that the U of D not only created, but asked its Residence Assistants (RAs) to implement raises my blood pressure.
Some highlights (emphasis mine):
The university’s views are forced on students through a comprehensive manipulation of the residence hall environment, from mandatory training sessions to “sustainability” door decorations. Students living in the university’s eight housing complexes are required to attend training sessions, floor meetings, and one-on-one meetings with their Resident Assistants (RAs). The RAs who facilitate these meetings have received their own intensive training from the university, including a “diversity facilitation training” session at which RAs were taught, among other things, that “[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.”
The university suggests that at one-on-one sessions with students, RAs should ask intrusive personal questions such as “When did you discover your sexual identity?” Students who express discomfort with this type of questioning often meet with disapproval from their RAs, who write reports on these one-on-one sessions and deliver these reports to their superiors. One student identified in a write-up as an RA’s “worst” one-on-one session was a young woman who stated that she was tired of having “diversity shoved down her throat.”
According to the program’s materials, the goal of the residence life education program is for students in the university’s residence halls to achieve certain “competencies” that the university has decreed its students must develop in order to achieve the overall educational goal of “citizenship.” These competencies include: “Students will recognize that systemic oppression exists in our society,” “Students will recognize the benefits of dismantling systems of oppression,” and “Students will be able to utilize their knowledge of sustainability to change their daily habits and consumer mentality.”
At various points in the program, students are also pressured or even required to take actions that outwardly indicate their agreement with the university’s ideology, regardless of their personal beliefs. Such actions include displaying specific door decorations, committing to reduce their ecological footprint by at least 20%, taking action by advocating for an “oppressed” social group, and taking action by advocating for a “sustainable world.”
In the Office of Residence Life’s internal materials, these programs are described using the harrowing language of ideological reeducation. In documents relating to the assessment of student learning, for example, the residence hall lesson plans are referred to as “treatments.”
There's also more expounding on how ALL whites are racist, regardless of what they say, etc., etc. See why it makes me so angry?
If I'm gonna fork over tens of thousands of dollars for a college education, I don't give a damn about the school's politically correct ideology. I want to learn the time-honored, accurate, and necessary requirements of my major and minor(s). Period.
The school - once this "treatment" program went public - retreated faster than the French.
Anyway, Dale points out that Shakti Butler, who ran a workshop called "Unwrapping Whiteness: A Video Dialogue" at the CTA conference. The description for the workshop reads (emphasis mine):
Shakti Butler shows her documentary video, Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible, then leads a dialogue. The film records the efforts of white women and men to find a way beyond the denial, guilt, fear and shame that keep systemic racism in place. Dr. Butler originated Heart to Heart Conversations, a national program of public dialogue to help people share deep feelings about race and culture. A multiracial African-American woman—African, Arawak Indian, and Russian-Jewish— Butler strives to move us beyond black and white and to speak to the interconnections of racism, classism, sexism, and homophobia.
She seeks to "move us beyond" all that by...making presentations about how white men and women (WHITE men and women) struggle with racism...by constantly bringing up racism.
She was hip-deep in the U of D "treatment" program, training the new RAs in a program called "A Whole New World" (emphasis mine):
The university has more than 200 resident assistants -- undergraduate students who supervise life in residents halls and act as mentors to residents -- who receive training before classes start. This year's "Whole New World" training was conducted by Shakti Butler, executive director of World Trust Educational Services.
As the beginning of the article points out, students were made to feel racist simply for being white (emphasis mine):
Brooke Aldrich considers herself open-minded and accepting of all kinds of people.But the University of Delaware freshman said statements made in a recent diversity training session on her floor of Russell Hall tried to make her believe she was a racist.
"I personally have no problem with anyone of any background, race, sexual identity, or any religion," said the 18-year-old Hockessin resident, who is majoring in animal science. "I accept people for who they are as people. But coming out of the group sessions makes you feel as if I was in some way a racist, just by the color of my skin. It was like, 'Because you've never been oppressed, you're part of the problem.' "
Clearly, the only solution to that is to be oppressed, to make up for the racism and misbehavior of others (read: people who lived and died long before Aldrich and I were born).
Anyway, it's interesting to draw connections between what can only be described as "re-education program" at U of D and the very same people CTA considers worthy of presenting at their conference.
The same insanity that runs amok at U of D is the same insanity CTA would like to see in YOUR Catholic Church.And CTA will be back in Milwaukee again, November 7-9, 2008. Oh, joy.
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