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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The audacity of caucasity on this post!

"White affinity group" is a very commonly used term nationally, both in educational and employment settings. The outrage here suggests you all either don't read, don't care to be better, and/or do exactly what such a group would challenge you to stop doing.

As several have pointed out, public institutions use resources to support marginalized/underrepresented groups all. the. time. [b]Is the problem here that whiteness is not being centered and exhalted? [/b]Because that's how the bulk of you sound.

Also, stop saying 'woke.'[/quote]

There is a chasm between "whiteness not being centered" and "perpetuation of whiteness and racism". The latter necessarily requires people to apologize for their existence and accept it as a failing. If you don't understand why these two things are not the same and why you alienate people by conflating the two then you are part of the problem. "Woke" is being used derisively to describe people like you who don't understand there's a difference. It is most ironic that you embody the new "woke" stereotype while demanding people stop using it to describe an exemplar of it.

"Allies" are important because we have learned over the history of oppression and war that the marginalized cannot often successfully advocate for themselves without people in positions of power working with them from the inside. You and others have perverted that concept to mean creating puppets who must pass some kind of purity test. Anyone who fails to agree 100% with your position is labeled a racist and becomes in your mind no different than a hood wearing, KKK white supremacist. That's counterproductive, false equivalence and succeeds only in alienating people who may agree with a great deal of what you say and advocate for, but may not agree with every last word.  [/quote]

There is certainly a difference between the "centering of whiteness" and the "perpetuation of whiteness" but um...I'm not sure you are actually clear about the distinction. And then you devolved into a nonsense rambling about the KKK and completely lost any intellectual credibility.

This thread is a cesspool of people who are so lost and shocked that schools and educators are responsible for more than just having really super awesome teaching strategies locked down. As though a child's ability to experience and engage in learning isn't directly tied to the historic, societal, systemic, and very obvious and apparent PERSONAL experiences of these students. It's a disgusting display of white people's inability to conceptualize a reality that exists for everyone except themselves. My favorite part of it all is that white people established the concept of race as we know it today, put themselves in the position of this identity called "whiteness" AND got to decide how that identity expanded as the centuries passed. Whiteness is defined by, validated by, and made real by white people. BUT NOW white folks couldn't be any more ready to throw the whole thing away because it doesn't make them look good anymore??? Do you know how many times I have heard a white person say "Why are you making this about race?" or "Don't you think it's more of a class thing, guys?"

No... it's a race thing because your great great great great granddaddy made it a race thing. 
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I reread my post (I am PP) and I realized it would be helpful to share that its a race thing because MY great great great great granddaddy made it a race thing, as well. My father is a white man from the south.

Maybe some of yall need to read some Ibrim X. Kendi. I bought my father "How to Be an Anti-Racist" and "Stamped from the Beginning" for Christmas and he was so annoyed with me. However, the other day we were out for coffee and he said he finished Stamped. I was stunned. It's not a light read by any means. He told me that he didn't want to tell me as he was making his way through it because there were times he admitted wanting to throw it in the trash. By the end of our outing, he told me he didn't know how to feel or where to go from there. I could have said..."umm...thats why I bought the other book too!" but I could see that he was going through some major mental shifts that would take time to work through.

Real empathy is possible folks but you have to start somewhere and its not a fun place to be...AT FIRST. But the more you sink into your false intellectual protection the more validate everything that whiteness was always intended to be and the more you confuse yourself and gaslight others. Its not about making people feel like they are racist. Its about self-witnessing and taking accountability.

I believe in yall. 
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