White Privilege Checklist’ Posted in College Dorm

An 11-point inspection. See how you do!

A “white privilege checklist” showed up in the hallway of a dorm at the University of Minnesota offering an 11-point inspection on how to check your privilege.

This was found hanging in Mark G. Yudof Hall:

  1.  I can arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time.
  2.  I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be followed or harassed.
  3.  I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and see people of my race widely represented.
  4.  When I am told about our national heritage or about “civilization,” I am shown that people of my color made it what it is.
  5. I can be sure that my children will be given curricular materials that testify to the existence of their race.
  6. I can go into a music shop and count on finding the music of my race represented, into a supermarket and find the food I grew up with, into a hairdresser’s shop and find someone who can deal with my hair.
  7. Whether I use checks, credit cards, or cash, I can count on my skin color not to work against the appearance of financial responsibility.
  8. I am not made acutely aware that my shape, bearing, or body odor will be taken as a reflection on my race.
  9. I can worry about racism without being seen as self-interested or self-seeking.
  10. I can take a job or enroll in a college with an affirmative action policy without having my co-workers or peers assume I got it because of my race.
  11. I can be late to a meeting without having the lateness reflect on my race.

A photo of the board was taken by Evan Christenson, a student who provided the picture to Campus Reform:

“I do believe it crosses the line. When it attacks the individual and not the idea, there is a problem,” the student said. “I am not inherently racist because I don't believe in white privilege. I believe there needs to be dialogue on the subject, but it needs to be more of a give and take and not a one-sided affair.”

Christenson, a self-described “social progressive,” also noted how this display remained untouched while a Trump mural that appeared on campus in September was quickly vandalized with offended students offered trauma counseling.

Maybe more socially progressive students are seeing the light after being hit over the head day in and day out with this PC nonsense.

Photo credit: jonas_foyn via Foter.com / CC BY

 

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