Washington Times:
A report by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign into the topic of “microaggressions” found that the simple task of “walking into or sitting in” a room full of white people can be problematic for minorities.
“Students of color reported feeling uncomfortable and unwelcomed just walking into or sitting in the classroom, especially if they were the only person of color, or one of a few,” said the report, titled “Racial Microaggressions @ University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,” National Review reported Wednesday.
“People do not necessarily say I do not belong, but I feel as if I do not when I am in a classroom and I am the one non-White person,” said one student in the college’s report, National Review reported.
Many colleges turn to Dr. Derald Wing Sue of Columbia University for a definition for the term “microaggression.” He has described such offenses as “brief, everyday exchanges that send denigrating messages to certain individuals because of their group membership.”
The Princeton Microaggressions Facebook page relied on Dr. Sue’s definition for its purposes in December 2014, but added: “The perspective and lived experiences of each individual contextualizes the world around them and thus places a particular meaning in words based on their distinct subjectivity. What counts as harmless banter to some may be emotionally triggering to others.”
The University of Illinois report suggests that one way to ameliorate microaggressions on campus may include “General Education requirement about race, White privilege, and inequality in the United States,” National Review reported.
If things are so horrible for minorities in America, why don’t they just leave?
From the WT comments:
* Sounds like its the minorities that have the problem and need to get over it.
* Yes, it is largely a problem with minorities! “I feel…” is a very subjective statement that can be loosely used to justify practically ANYTHING, even though there may be no OBJECTIVE evidence of something.
Hmmm…I wonder how it would sound if a white person were to say that he/she “feels” very uncomfortable–that there are “microagressions” against him/her–when being the sole white person in an environment full of black people.
Instant cries of RACISM!!!
Again, today’s PC environment 1) just gives too many people the license to say STUPID THINGS, and 2) permits minorities, e.g., .blacks, to have many of their own misguided mindsets perpetuated rather than corrected. In the end, the collective black culture never changes, and the definition of insanity just rolls on: doing the same thing, generation after generation, and expecting different results.
Sad.
* White people have a legitimate concern about being around large numbers of black people (in many situations..) due to the absolute statistics that Blacks are VERY high probability to rob and/or murder you compared to ANY other race! Those statistics ARE PUBLISHED BY FBI and every police agency on EARTH! Where are your facts? In spite of this, most white people I know go out of the way to make others feel part of the community! Stop your own stinking racism. Too many descendants of African slaves have simply failed to Integrate into civilization! Stop blaming modern people for your own misfortune! Nobody alive today owed a SLAVE, and nobody alive today is or has been one (except for the few underage-females enslaved as prostitutes on Bill Clinton’s Orgy Island, that is!)
* Black males aged 15-34; the main perpetrators of ALL crime in this country are only 3% of the total US population. REPEAT 3% of the American Population commits ALL this crime.
This is the group the 2013 FBI crime statistics say are responsible for:
56.4% of ALL Robbery
52.2% of ALL Murders
33.9% of ALL Aggravated Assaults
31.3% of ALL Forcible Rapes
2012 FBI Statistics
54.9% of ALL Robbery
49.4% of ALL Murders
34.1% of ALL Aggravated Assaults
32.5% of ALL Forcible Rapes
2011 FBI Statistics
55.6% of ALL Robbery
49.7% of ALL Murders
33.6% of ALL Aggravated Assaults
32.9% of ALL Forcible Rapes
3% of the US population creates ALL this misery.
I think this would be a wonderful opportunity to pause for a moment and give thanks for the many great contributions of the Negro community and their culture to our society. Their peaceful and generous nature makes them ideal neighbors, lending testimony to their exceptional family values and parenting skills unrivaled by any other culture.
Their commitment to academic excellence enriches our schools and serves as an example to all who hope to achieve prominence as a people. Real Estate values are fueled by the influx of North American Negroes into an area due to their caring and respectful nurturing of these communities, an example of all they have achieved by their enthusiasm for self-improvement through hard work and a self-reliant can-do nature. Without their industrious and creative drive, we would be poorer as a nation.
Presently enriching the cities of Spokane WA, Chicago IL, Philadelphia PA, Washington D.C., St. Louis MO, New Orleans LA, Los Angeles CA, Flint MI, Baltimore MD, Pontiac MI, Gary, IN., Houston, TX , Newark NJ, Cleveland OH, Atlanta GA, Richmond VA, Memphis TN, Birmingham AL, Camden NJ; and let’s not forget Detroit, the tourism capital of the world!
