When people question how college kids became so distorted on the issues of race, patriarchy, the sexes, and offensive speech, one needs to look no further than at the university professors and administration.
Ali Michael, the Director of K-12 Consulting and Professional Development at the Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education at the University of Pennsylvania, penned an op-ed in the Huffington Post where she stated how she wished she wasn’t white and didn’t have biological children because they too would be Caucasian.
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She began her opinion piece by stating that white people are in “immersion/emersion stage” where they are finally aware of their genetic disease of racism that they inherited from their ancestors.
The “‘immersion’ stage is typified by White people taking more responsibility for racism and privilege and often experiencing high levels of anger and embarrassment for racism and privilege, which they sometimes direct towards other Whites,” Michael wrote.
Her prime example is Rachel Dolezal, who in “dealing with dealing with the pain of the reality of racism, was to deny her own Whiteness and to become Black.”
In her 20s, Michael admitted that she learned the truth that she was a racist through her DNA and became immensely ashamed to be white. She went so far as to deciding not to have biological children, saying:
She continued that no only did she hate her own whiteness, but also other white people more. In her junior year of college, she went to South Africa, lived with a black family, and adopted their dress and customs to try and shed her whiteness — an experience she later mocked as being something only a white person would do.
Michael wrote that white people can either be colorblind, ignorant, or racist which is why they choose to identify as a bland American. They also have no culture because they shed themselves of a European identity in the process of assimilating.
So Caucasians neither have a race nor culture they can properly identify with — tell that to my Italian family during the holidays.
While Michael did not go full Dolezal — and claims that the former NAACP leader might suffer from mental illness — that’s the pot calling the kettle black.
“But we cannot not be White. And we cannot undo what Whiteness has done. We can only start from where we are and who we are,” she concludes her article.
Does what Europeans and their decedents have done — including the creation of the telephone, the lightbulb, indoor plumbing, the discovery of seven continents, the art of everything from Shakespeare to Picasso to Mozart, and scientific breakthroughs of vaccines, DNA, and computers — not constitute anything worth identifying with?
It truly is a shameful past.
