Actually, this makes complete sense with Trump as president right now because Trump's Dad beat up Catholic Cops in New York and went to jail for it along with other KKK then in the 1920s. And the apple "Trump" doesn't fall far from the tree does he?
It was also accurate still until President Kennedy was president elected in 1960 as the first Catholic president of the United States. So, off and on we have been a White Supremacist society depending upon which president was in office ever since White Supremacists assassinated Kennedy. Or maybe a better way to put this was they "Allowed" him to be assassinated in Texas. So, because white supremacists in Texas allowed Kennedy to be assassinated there is a lot of truth to a course like this.
Also, with Trump as president with a KKK father and observing Trump's actions, from a federal level at least we are definitely a White Supremacist Racist society with the present government in office.
By the way, White Supremacists have always been against ANY woman's right to vote, to choose anything, or to have the right to an abortion or to have any decisions about who has the right to be with them or not. Women have no rights in White Supremacist thought at all, except to have babies whenever ANYONE impregnates them!
To understand Trump and his government administration worldwide this is something everyone needs to know about Trump.
Also, with Trump as president with a KKK father and observing Trump's actions, from a federal level at least we are definitely a White Supremacist Racist society with the present government in office.
By the way, White Supremacists have always been against ANY woman's right to vote, to choose anything, or to have the right to an abortion or to have any decisions about who has the right to be with them or not. Women have no rights in White Supremacist thought at all, except to have babies whenever ANYONE impregnates them!
To understand Trump and his government administration worldwide this is something everyone needs to know about Trump.
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MYERS, Fla. — Florida Gulf Coast University student Aimee Weigt doesn't
shy away from discussing difficult social issues, so she didn't
hesitate to sign up for a new class that will be offered at the university called "White Racism."
Ted
Thornhill, an assistant professor of sociology, will teach the course,
starting in January. He plans to cover everything from ways to challenge
white supremacy to the ideologies, laws, policies and practices in this
country that have allowed for "white racial domination over those
racialized as non-white," according to a course description.
Fifty students signed up to take the class, but it has caused some controversy at the school, mostly because of its name.
"Not
everybody is a fan of it, but I know because Thornhill is so articulate
when it comes to developing classes that it's going to be super well
done and especially because it's a topic that he is very comfortable
teaching," said Weigt, 22, a sociology major.
Alex
Pilkington, treasurer of the university's College Republicans, said he
talked to Thornhill about the course's name after a recent panel
discussion on campus about racism. He said Thornhill did a good job
justifying the name, but he still thinks it is problematic.
"I
would have preferred a name more like 'Systemic Racism' because giving
it 'White Racism' as the name of the class I feel like it's intentional
that you are trying to make white people look at the class a certain
way," said Pilkington, 22, an accounting major.
Thornhill has been teaching courses on race, racism, white supremacy and racial inequality for nearly a decade.
He
said one of the reasons he decided to teach a "White Racism" course at
Florida Gulf Coast University is because students have told him that
they want more classes on race and racism.
Thornhill
said the new class will include discussions about the classification of
people based on race and the privileges that come along with being at
the top of the hierarchy.
"I
think the course can be construed to be a provocative title," he said.
"I think that students will be excited to learn about this. The
description is very clear and direct and so they can see what we are
going to talk about."
Thornhill said the negative reaction of some to the course shows how much it is needed.
"The
thing is nobody said it wasn't OK to be white," he said. "I am saying,
'It's not OK to be a white racist.' There is a big difference."
Thornhill
points out that he is not the first to use the term white racism.
Others who study race and racism have used it in books, research papers
and other literature. A "White Racism" class has been offered at the
University of Connecticut since the mid-1990s.
Sociology
professor Noël Cazenave teaches the class at UConn. He said when he
started teaching the course, it caused a lot of controversy at the
university, too.
"The attacks on me were very,
very vicious and very, very personal," he said. "I was called, 'the
white racism professor,' and what have you. And so there was really no
sophisticated arguments as to why the course shouldn't be taught."
Cazenave
said an argument made about the class was that it was offensive to
white people. He said he countered that race is an ideology used to
justify race-based privilege.
"One of the basic
premises of the course is that the concept of race is bogus, so there
are no white people to offend," Cazenave said. "To many people who are
very high in the value of white racial identity, that would be more
offensive to them than the course."
Cazenave said he tried explaining to people what the course was about in order to calm some of the controversy.
"It's
not a course that is referring to anyone personally, necessarily," he
said. "For example, I tell my students periodically, 'I am not talking
about your mama. Let's understand that racism is systemic. We are not
talking about just purely the presence of individuals.' "
Cazenave
said his power and the support he had on campus led him to continue
teaching the class and it becoming a regular part of the curriculum at
the University of Connecticut.
"It was the fact
that I was a tenured professor and the university had to decide whether
they were going to give up their cherished values of academic freedom,
freedom of speech and the pretense to actually be a university or
whether they were going to allow me to teach the course," he said.
Junior
sociology major Emily Nelson, 20, said she has taken three sociology
classes under Thornhill and each of the classes made her a better
person.
She said she is looking forward to Thornhill's new class and is expecting to learn a lot.
"I
think that each time I take any class with Dr. Thornhill I am able to
have real discussions with other people and come at political
discussions about society overall with facts and statistics rather than
just opinion," she said. "I like the power, the knowledge his classes
give me, so I am just hoping to get more of that."
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