The New Racists: Annual White Privilege Conference Draws Thousands of Teachers
It will no doubt come as a tragic disappointment to many of you to learn that you missed this year’s “17th Annual White Privilege Conference” in Philadelphia, particularly because this year’s exciting, Orwellian theme was “Let Freedom Ring, Re-Imagining Equality & Social Justice in the United States.”
Featuring a wide variety of workshops to indoctrinate adults and students on race, racism, black oppression, and other “racial justice” topics, the annual event exists to promote the tiresome, racist theory of White Privilege – that American society is systematically racist and hopelessly rigged against minorities, and the only way to address the problem is for white people to repent of their inherent “white privilege.”
Conference organizer Eddie Moore Jr., founder and president of “The Privilege Institute,” announced that
“Our vision is to build a community committed to dismantling white privilege, white supremacy and oppression, every day, everywhere.
“WPC fosters an environment where every participant can engage deeply, and then through our Accountability program, bring what they have learned back to their own community so that their WPC experience impacts their lives, employment, and community all year long.”
A letter to conference participants read,
Throughout the history of the United States, ‘liberty’ and ‘justice’ have been espoused values, which have only ever applied to a very small minority of people. The Constitution supported the enslavement of Africans; the U.S. government orchestrated the decimation of Native American nations; until 1952 Congress prohibited Asians and Latinos from naturalizing as U.S. citizens because they were not White; the Bill of Rights did not apply to persons who were not White, male and Christian.”
The letter went on to ask questions for attendees to consider during the conference, such as, “What would it look like to have reparations for all injustices committed in the U.S. and for the broken promises of liberty and justice for all?” and “How has Christianity shaped life in the U.S. to the exclusion and oppression of other religions?”
Reportedly, 2,500 teachers, school administrators, and counselors attended the conference — the largest attendance to date.
In 2014, EAGnews attended the White Privilege Conference in Madison, Wisconsin and recorded some of the sessions. These videos are from that year’s conference.
“The master’s house has a black face, but it’s still the master’s house,” one professor told her audience in 2014. “[Obama] works for the master of the system of white privilege.”
“And then there are the little white families who live in the little white zones in little white gated communities and send their kids to little white academies,” activist Leonard Zeskind explained at the time.
Among the student workshops were such exciting, enlightening seminars as “Racial Literacy Reflections: Youth Buffering Rejection through a Racial Trauma Magazine” [don’t worry, we don’t know what that means, either], “I’m a Good Person! Isn’t That Enough?” [not for the virtue-signaling, racist Social Justice Warriors who deem your white skin damning enough] “Hip Hop and White Privilege” [in which whites are lectured about appropriating black music], and “White Privilege and Implicit Bias: Dealing with Unconscious Stereotypes and Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack,” among others.
The event, which ran through the weekend, also featured breakout sessions like the “4th Annual Black Male Think Tank” and “Institutes” on specific social justice topics, such as “The National Constitution Center: An Exploration of the White Racial Frame,” “White Women: Internalized Sexism and White Superiority,” and “White Followership – Centering People of Color and Building Effective White Practices for Racial Justice & Systemic Change.”
The Daily Caller reported that professional education consultant and teacher trainer Heather Hackman argued that great teachers must also be liberal activists; in fact, she declared that teachers shouldn’t even bother teaching if they aren’t committed to promoting the social justice agenda in school. Her workshop at the conference was called “No Freedom Unless We Call Out the Wizard Behind the Curtain: Critically Addressing the Corrosive Effects of Whiteness in Teacher Education and Professional Development.” The seminar’s thesis? Eradicating the “white imperial gaze” of modern education requires training prospective teachers to be activists, not just pedagogues.
“She predicted her approach will triumph,” wrote the Daily Caller, “and the sinister force she dubbed “Super-Whitey” … will eventually be swept aside”:
“Your time has come. If I was [sic] a white faculty member and unwilling to get with the program, I do not have any business in teacher education… We do see you, Super-Whitey. We’re coming for you.”
The Daily Caller also reported that the conference got off to a rousing start Friday morning when the conference’s lead organizer called for members to contribute money for the mother of a black teen (with a rap sheet five pages long) killed after shooting a police officer.
Because provoking racial animus isn’t the only way in which the radical left seeks to keep the country divided, this year the conference also featured discussions about gay and transgender rights, and of course, about the swelling tide of Islamophobia.
Workshops include: “’But I’m an Ally!’: LGBTQ Youth, Intersectionality & White Privilege,” and “White American Islamophobia,” which aims to “clear up misinformation about Islam and Muslims and the socio-political implications of White American Xenophobia.” Apparently the conference organizers aren’t concerned about American Xenophobia among blacks or Asian or any other racial group.
Thank goodness leftists are here to explain our culpability in this mythical bigotry.
