Portland Community College’s “Whiteness History Month” is highlighting the types of controversial conversations about race that are shaping America’s next generation of leaders.
The school is hosting more than 100 planned events centered on the system of white supremacist oppression that minorities, particularly black people, are forced to endure and the conscious and unconscious “white privilege” all whites enjoy.
In a video of one event posted to YouTube, PCC history and humanities professor James Harrison delivered a lecture titled “Imagine A World Without Whiteness” in which he invokes the words of John Lennon to explain why he equates peace with abolishing “whiteness.”
“Imagine all the people living life in peace. John Lennon penned these words in 1971, and my interpretation is that he’s talking about ‘Imagine everyone living together in peace.’ That would be not necessarily a perfect world, but a good world. And how do we get to that good world is the question – a world without conflict,” Harrison said.
“And to me, my interpretation of these words, is it would be a world, for the U.S., without whiteness, in terms of the power structure,” he continued.
Progressives Today posted videos of Harrison’s lecture as part of its continuing coverage of Whiteness History Month, along with commentary of the clips.
“He went on to say that even poor white people have privilege,” the news site reports. “And even though PCC officials have been stressing that these events have nothing to do with race, … Harrison goes on to start talking about racial demographics, and says ‘whiteness is on the retreat.’”
“A lot of people cannot imagine whiteness because they don’t know it, they don’t see it, it’s invisible. But it’s there all the time, so I would like to share with you a little of my thoughts about whiteness.
“It’s a social category for one, and a social category is a group of people who share common characteristics but they may never interact with each other. But they are a social category,” he continued.
“So … white people share a whole lot of things, even if they don’t interact. And one thing that they share is whiteness, or white privilege. … A poor white person might say ‘I don’t have any privileges.’ It’s because the privilege is invisible. The privilege is that when you go into a store, someone doesn’t follow you around, literally. I’ve been followed around in stores.
“Privilege is not when you are walking and when you are close to a white woman all of a sudden she clutches her purse because the thought is you are obviously going to steal,” he continued.
“Privilege – when you go into a car dealership the person who runs out doesn’t say ‘say, you want to buy a used car?’ when you are really looking for a brand new car. Privilege is having a very low death rate for babies. That’s privilege, but it’s an invisible privilege.”
Harrison then explained the hard evidence showing that “whiteness is on the retreat.”
“It is estimated by 2040 or 2050 there will not be a white majority in terms of population. So in 2040 or 2050 … we will all be minorities in this country, and that’s frightening to some people,” he said.
The professor goes on to explain how capitalism perpetuates whiteness, and other important nuances like black people who act white, and the need to “dismantle whiteness” by taking personal action.
“It all revolves around individuals taking small steps to dismantle and demolish the whole concept” of whiteness, Harrison said. “You need to take the time to read more about whiteness, and what it does …”
Other Whiteness History Month events were held throughout the college and in local community centers, and included titles like “Stumptown: The Whitest City in America,” “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack,” “Honorary Whites: The Impact of Whiteness on Asian American Identity Formation and Asian American Students in Higher Education,” “The Mindful White Accomplice: How Racial Programming Hijacks the Nervous System and What to Do About It,” “It’s Not My Fault: Whites and Racism,” and others.
“The college views this project as part of a larger national conversation around race and social justice on America’s college campuses,” PCC interim President Sylbia Kelley said in a statement to Oregon Live.
The program opened with the launch of a four week class to help “white anti-racist activists to deepen understanding of whiteness and privilege and build relationships, resilience and capacity” to better serve the Black Lives Matter movement, according to the news site.
For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:6-8)
My esteemed colleague at work who is African American and very Conservative once said at the lunch table:
"If it wasn't for the Africans selling other Africans to white Europeans/Americans, I would not be in the USA today enjoying our freedom and prosperity. I would be in a loin cloth fighting for my next meal. Or becoming something's meal."
For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:6-8)
#4. To: cranky, Willie Green. redlehunter, TooConservative, All (#0)
“And to me, my interpretation of these words, is it would be a world, for the U.S., without whiteness, in terms of the power structure,” he continued.
Well, he has Hillary and the DRats convinced. What a travesty it will be when she buries Trump in November election. I can only hope that her non-person pending grandchild will be the beneficiary of the "Imagine a world without whiteness" seeds they have sown and nurtured.
"If it wasn't for the Africans selling other Africans to white Europeans/Americans, I would not be in the USA today enjoying our freedom and prosperity."
There's probably some truth to that.
I've read the vast majority of Africans taken out of Africa and transported to the new world worked in the sugar trade with only a small percetage working in tobacco and cotton fields.
There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't
" African American and very Conservative once said at the lunch table:
"If it wasn't for the Africans selling other Africans to white Europeans/Americans, I would not be in the USA today enjoying our freedom and prosperity. I would be in a loin cloth fighting for my next meal. Or becoming something's meal."
I remember when Walter Williams was setting in for Rush, did an hour long monologue on that very topic. The way he did it was funny, but very accurate.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
There are no Carthaginian terrorists.
President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. --Clint Eastwood
"I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
"Hillary: White People 'Need to Recognize Our Privilege'
You may find this hard to believe but I don't believe she was being sincere.
Neither do I but IDM. Whether it is just blatant pandering to the great unwashed Black masses this is still what she is selling to the great unwashed white masses as well - and with the eager help of the MSM. This is the new brainwashing meme on the college campuses soon to come to your neighborhood HS, middle schools and grade schools. This is the brainwashing my grandkids will be getting just as soon as they start school.
All those years wasted in school,and he is still a fool incapable of coherent thought.
I'm only surprised he isn't Obombers Sec of Education.
BOYCOTT PAYPAL AND CLOSE YOUR PP ACCOUNTS NOW! ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO DO SO,TOO!
ISLAM MEANS SUBMISSION!
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
I can only hope that her non-person pending grandchild will be the beneficiary of the "Imagine a world without whiteness" seeds they have sown and nurtured.
Don't worry about him. He will be born into a world of Jewish wealth and privilege. His great grandfather will be one of the people who financed the overthrow of the Czar,and the domination of Communism in Russia.
BOYCOTT PAYPAL AND CLOSE YOUR PP ACCOUNTS NOW! ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO DO SO,TOO!
ISLAM MEANS SUBMISSION!
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
Don't worry about him. He will be born into a world of Jewish wealth and privilege. His great grandfather will be one of the people who financed the overthrow of the Czar,and the domination of Communism in Russia.
I knew Al Gore's daughter married a descendant of Jacob Schiff, I had no idea Chelsea married into the same cabal.
I knew Al Gore's daughter married a descendant of Jacob Schiff, I had no idea Chelsea married into the same cabal.
I stand corrected. I definitely was thinking of Goober's daughter instead of Bubba's daughter when I wrote the above,but now that you mention it,I believe Chelsea also married into old,connected money. Which means there is a Jew in the woodpile somewhere.
Yup,just checked,and her husband is Marc Mezvinsky,an American investment banker.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Mezvinsky
BOYCOTT PAYPAL AND CLOSE YOUR PP ACCOUNTS NOW! ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO DO SO,TOO!
ISLAM MEANS SUBMISSION!
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.
Imagine a world without this dumb ass, and the others like him!
Si vis pacem, para bellum
Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
There are no Carthaginian terrorists.
President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. --Clint Eastwood
"I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
