http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/22268/ MARQUETTE ‘STUDENTS OF COLOR’ SAY THEY’RE OPPRESSED, DEMAND ‘WHITE PRIVILEGE’ CLASSES
Just based on the headline I was stunned by the notion that "students of color" want to learn how to be white and priveleged.
Oh, how wrong I was.
The group of students is also upset over the university’s longtime seal, which includes an image of its namesake Rev. Jacques Marquette, the French-Jesuit missionary whose 17th-century travels helped map Milwaukee and the Midwest.
The seal includes a standing Marquette pointing in a canoe with an American Indian sitting and holding an oar, an image that appears to have been inspired by an old painting of the explorer. But the student coalition has decried the seal as a “biased and impartial narrative” and have demanded the image be cropped or altered.
Because, as far as the “Ad Hoc Coalition of and for Students of Color” is concerned, “discriminatory violence” is defined as “physical harassment, language, exclusion or imagery that targets an individual or group based upon their race, gender, sex, class, national or cultural identities,” the campus newspaper The Marquette Wire reports.
With that, the seal must fall under what the group contends is the “discriminatory violence-imagery” category.
A private Jesuit university is being raked over the coals because their namesake trespassed the daylights out of the land of those who had come and not only trespassed but forcefully evicted the previous inhabitants.
One obviously black, one probably Native American, one obviously white and the 4th probably white. And yet nobody is demonstrating against white privelege taking over the diversity protest?
I would have been so much happier if it turned out to be what I thought it was about.
The Left has made The Onion and Duffle Blog, as the Brits say, redundant.
stay safe.
