In the midst of the plight of Rachel Dolezal and the tragic Charleston shootings, the “unbiased” media and critical academics continue to push the agenda that is not in the design to unify those with or without racial prejudice but to drive an even deeper wedge with the emphasis on “white privilege.” This time, academic Ali Michael, Ph.D. and Director of P-12 Consulting and Professional Development at the Center for the Study of Race Equity in Education at the University of Pennsylvania and adjunct professor at Penn State sounds off.

Michael took to writing an entry entitled “Sometimes, I Don’t Want To Be White, Either,” Michael states that she chose not to have children because they would be the recipients of “white privilege.”

“I definitely experienced this. There was a time in my 20s when everything I learned about the history of racism made me hate myself, my Whiteness, my ancestors… and my descendants. I remember deciding that I couldn’t have biological children because I didn’t want to propagate my privilege biologically.”

Yes, she went there. She does not want to propagate her privilege biologically.

And the “Great Thinker” known as Ali Michael goes on:

“If I was going to pass on my privilege, I wanted to pass it on to someone who doesn’t have racial privilege; so I planned to adopt. I disliked my Whiteness, but I disliked the Whiteness of other White people more. I felt like the way to really end racism was to feel guilty for it, and to make other White people feel guilty for it too.”

She even admitted to having her very own “Rachel Dolezal Phase”:

“…And then, like Dolezal, I wanted to take on Africanness. Living in South Africa during my junior year abroad, I lived with a Black family, wore my hair in head wraps, shaved my head. I didn’t want to be White, but if I had to be, I wanted to be White in a way that was different from other White people I knew. I wanted to be a special, different White person. The one and only. How very White of me…

Michael went on to quote the work of Beverly Daniel Tatum who has written that White people don’t choose to identify as “White” because the “categories” to choose from are “loaded from the start”:

“Traditionally, one can identify as a colorblind White person, a racist White person or an ignorant White person: those are the three ways White people get talked about as White. If those are the options, who would choose to identify as White? And so White people identify as ‘normal’ and ‘Irish’ and ‘just American’ and do not self-identify racially. And that leaves us with a society in which only people of color have a race, where only people of color seem to be responsible for racialized problems. It makes it hard for all of us to know and tell our racial stories — because White people think we don’t have any. And it makes it hard for us to own our history, because we don’t see it as ours. Many White people also feel like we don’t have culture, and this isn’t a coincidence. Throughout the 20th century, countless immigrant groups abandoned the artifacts of cultures that racialized them as immigrants (language, religion, food, styles of speaking, gesticulations, family structures, traditions, etc.) in order to become White. And this was not just a matter of fitting in; it was about accessing rights that were reserved for White people: citizenship, land ownership, police protection, legal rights, etc.”

Uhhhhhh…what?!

By Michael’s observations, white individuals are (or should be) dealing with anger and embarrassment for their “privilege” and going through a “Rachel Dolezal phase” is completely acceptable and understandable and quite simply, a form of “immersion.” Michael goes on to say that she went through this phase of self-hate, dislike and guilt. Sounds like a personal problem to me. Who knew that being white was so wrong because the liberal left wants us, collectively as a race, to be embarrassed about it and hate ourselves for the color of our skin and the “privilege” that we have apparently been born into? And, how dare we pass along that “privilege” to a child we biologically gave birth to? And, furthermore, whites only really fit into three categories: 1) colorblind, 2) racist or 3) ignorant. How open minded of these (white privileged) academics to categorize their own race!

In terms of being colorblind, let’s face it. The only humans who are colorblind on this earth are children. We live in a very diverse neighborhood and I love the fact that my son can hang with all of his friends but let’s be realistic and face it, childhood is colorblind. These kids love each other no matter what but are also quick to throw one another under the bus (with no “racial profiling” intended) when one of them does wrong. Then, children grow older and are unfortunately susceptible to perhaps adults who harbor prejudice and they hear the noise from outside that informs them of their differences. All of a sudden, they are not colorblind anymore–they are tainted. But if only children are colorblind, that must mean that white adults fall into one of the two remaining categories: racist or ignorant. Again, how open-minded of these of these “smart” people.

In order to make sure children do not remain colorblind, academics have gone as far as to teach “white privilege training” to staff as early as elementary school in some cases:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwPO05_NY4I

I am by no means saying that racist white people do not exist. In light of the Charleston shootings, Dylan Roof is a racist. No doubt about it. I hate what he did. It was, in my opinion, ugly and unforgivable. When it comes to Rachel Dolezal–she is white and along with being a very confused individual caught in a web of her own lies, I personally find the fact that she tried to take advantage of opportunities that should have been given to a black woman to be wrong. Both are white, last time I checked. Since I’m not “colorblind” and I recognize my “whiteness”, but since I don’t consider myself a racist, I guess I must fall into the “ignorant” category. In fact, most of us regular, good ol’ white AMERICANS “who threw our cultural beliefs overboard” once the boat docked in New York Harbor identify as “white” on our job or college applications (because, hey, we are and it would be ethically wrong to check the “African American” or “Hispanic” box) are “ignorant”, I guess, according to the wonderful world of academia.

Maybe it’s just me or my ignorance, but why on Earth does it seem that the “hearts and flowers” academic (elite) who say we are all equal try to drive home the fact there are these drastic divisions between us HUMANS (and Americans) every chance they get? We can’t say “United We Stand”, we can’t say The Pledge of Allegiance”, we can’t classify ourselves as “Americans” because doing all of the above implies “white supremacy” and therefore, we should be embarrassed to even have a sense of pride.  What gives? I would like to ask Ali Michael what “category” she thinks she falls into. Is she colorblind? I do not think so considering she identifies as “an embarrassed white girl”. She is certainly not a “racist” white girl, no way, not in her field of work! And her copious studies “prove” and rule out that she certainly is not part of the “ignorant” minions, so what is she? She may have opted to not reproduce but did she opt not to have her family support her through college because of “white privilege”? Did she refuse the grant money she received to study abroad in South Africa because she thought the money would better serve one of her black counterparts? Did she not take her job at the University of Pennsylvania because of the shameful color of her skin? Did she take a lower salary because she’s an “embarrassed white girl?”

Is there a category for “Pretentious Academic Embarrassed White Person?” Just saying.