...according to the University of Minnesota, which is now publishing "student materials" claiming that whiteness is a "pandemic". As the parents of six children and grandparents to one (and hopefully a lot more), my wife and I are of course contributing mightily to this problem. Especially interesting to us is the fact that "The U", as it's affectionately called here, is saying that "colorblindness" is a symptom of white racism. Weird me, I thought that Dr. King had advocated something about that in his epic "I have a dream" speech.
It is also very troubling that "The U" identifies the family as one of the opposing features that they need to work against; quite frankly, we have over six decades of experience with what happens in communities where nuclear families are not formed, and our jails and graveyards are filled with the results.
We might somewhat bitterly joke that since Minnesota is regulating the application of fertilizer to farm fields more strictly, all of the "bovine scat" is regrettably going to DEI offices at the U. in St. Paul.
Update: we might also wonder what some of our black friends, devoted to the principle "they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the contact of their character", and devoted to their own nuclear families, might respond to the notion that they were somehow promoting white racism in honoring Dr. King's memory.
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