Tag: white privilege

A South Carolina woman told police they could ignore her DUI because she is “very clean” and “thoroughbred white,” several reports say.

Oscar-winner Anne Hathaway spoke out on the fatal stabbing of a black woman at a subway station in California and condemned white privilege.

The head of the UK’s largest teaching union has warned that plans to move towards a ‘knowledge-based’ curriculum risks “hurtling” England into the past.

The chief executive of a major hospital trust has slammed “white privilege” in the National Health Service (NHS), demanding the public healthcare service put more ethnic minorities in top jobs.

Columbia University Professor John McWhorter compared the social justice politics of white progressives to Christianity in a Thursday column for The American Interest.

Professor Rinaldo Walcott of the University of Toronto is arguing that the notion of free speech is a “white supremacist” ideal.

Last week marked the first “white privilege” conference held by Ryerson University with hundreds of academics and others gathering at the Toronto-based institution.

A professor of education at Stanford University argues in a recent academic journal article that the tabletop game Dungeons & Dragons perpetuates white privilege.

The University of Southern California has installed a provocative exhibit titled “Dismantle Whiteness and Misogyny on Campus” in an apparent effort to combat “racism, sexism and xenophobia.”

George Washington University is hosting a diversity workshop to battle “Christian privilege” on Thursday of Easter Week at the school’s Multicultural Student Services Center.

A Wisconsin public school district is limiting discourse on social privilege after parents complained about a Martin Luther King Jr. day exercise about “white privilege.”

School administrators in British Columbia are trying to fight racism by posting a series of white-shaming posters on school walls, in an effort to educate students on the evils of “white privilege.”

Embattled actor and left-wing activist Shia LaBeouf is blaming his rage-fueled behavior and a drunken, racist rant that landed him in handcuffs last July on ‘white Privilege.’

Two educational institutions in Canada have come under fire after launching campaigns asking white people to ‘check their privilege’.

As Breitbart News reported in 2014, during a debate about the Common Core standards education reform at St. Anselm’s College in Manchester, New Hampshire, Pook claimed to have “helped write the standards,” and said that, as a white male, he has been given “a lot of privilege” that he never earned.

A student group formed to address “white privilege” at Ohio’s Kenyon College bars white members from asking questions of a person of color as part of a process to combat racism.

A public school district in Minnesota is taking a radical social justice approach to the education of their youngest children.

Rep. Joseph “Joe” Kennedy III (D-MA) delivered the Democratic response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday in Fall River, Massachusetts.

Kimani Paul-Emile, an associate professor of law at Fordham University, argued recently that being black should be considered a disability.

Actor Matt McGorry took to Twitter to honor Martin Luther King Jr. Day by challenging white people to root out, engage with, and end the white supremacy in their own lives.

State lawmakers are examining model campus free speech legislation that will address what has become a top issue for college administrators in the New Year: how to ensure free speech while keeping students safe and security costs down.

A student at Chapman University in Orange, California, argues that holding moderate political beliefs is a form of privilege akin to “white privilege.”

The head of Purdue University’s School of Engineering Education, Donna Riley, argued in a recently published academic journal article tough engineering courses only serves to uphold “white male heterosexual privilege.”

Cal State Fullerton hosted an event this week that invited students to construct a bracelet containing beads indicating their various forms of “privilege.”

Students at the prestigious Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, are participating a workshop to help them “deconstruct whiteness.”

Edina High School in Edina, Minnesota, has come under fire this week over a new mandatory english course that aims to eradicate “white privilege.”

A math education professor at the University of Illinois argues that the teaching of math subjects perpetuates white privilege because they were developed by the Greeks and others Europeans.

A Huffington Post columnist has waded into the NFL national anthem protests and has proclaimed that any player who stands for the anthem is a racist infused with “white privilege.”

Students at San Diego State University have the opportunity to earn extra credit by determining their personal level of “white privilege.”

Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA) stirred up a heated discussion on the House floor suggesting that Rep. Steve King (R-IA) was exercising “traditional white privilege” by comparing statistics between New Orleans and El Salvador.

Western Washington University is hosting a workshop on reducing the impact of “white privilege,” according to a report on the university’s website.

Things got heated Wednesday on ESPN’s “First Take” during a debate about retiring Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo suiting up for the Dallas Mavericks Tuesday night. “First Take” co-host Stephen A. Smith questioned Romo’s special treatment because of the lack of

Scholar Claire Lockard argues in a new work that white people who acknowledge their privilege are less likely to engage in actual anti-racism efforts.

Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” host Bill O’Reilly used his introductory “Talking Points Memo” segment to offers his thoughts on the motivations behind the movement to abolish the Electoral College. According to O’Reilly, much of what is

Iconic author Toni Morrison says white Americans overwhelmingly supported President-elect Donald Trump due to fears that “their natural superiority is being lost.”