Southern University Florida was planning to implement a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) mentoring program that would see students advocating for race and ‘white guilt’ and ‘white fragility’.
According to Chris Rufo, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, the public documents reveal a radical DEI program.
This includes ‘anti-racist resources’ promoting left-wing political activism and highlighting negative views about white students.
Rufo, a conservative activist, claimed Twitter How some of the material included information on funding the police, abolishing prisons and rejecting a ‘white, capitalist Jesus’.
Public documents that have been removed from university servers but obtained by Rufo show that programming includes anti-racism resources, segregated counseling sessions, and issues for white students facing their ‘white privilege’, ‘white crime’ and ‘white crime’. To do includes promoting content. White delicacy.
Rufo alleges that the endpoint of the program is left-wing political activism and that USF offered racially segregated counseling sessions and ‘white identity development’ materials for Caucasians.
Rufo tweeted that the University of South Florida has adopted a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) program that separates students by race.
Documents obtained by conservative activist Chris Rufo promote left-wing political activism: ‘anti-racist resources’, ‘reparations’, ‘protecting the police’, and ‘prison abolition’
Public documents obtained by Rufo show that the programming included anti-racism resources, segregated counseling sessions, and materials for white students to confront their ‘white privilege’, ‘white guilt’ and ‘white fragility’ Promotion included.
A document obtained by Rufo appears to be a study of how racial identity is interpreted by different ethnic groups
In a series of tweets, Rufo suggested that the programming was ‘a condemnation of American society’, which has only been amplified following the death of George Floyd in May 2020.
Rufo suggests how the university’s DEI administrators offered a solution: “by offering racial reeducation racially segregated counseling sessions and promoting ‘white identity development’ for white students through their ‘white privilege’, ‘white To confront ‘guilt’ and ‘white fragility’.
In a series of tweets, Rufo suggests that the programming is ‘a condemnation of American society’. Following the death of George Floyd, almost every alumnus of the University of South Florida (USF) condemned the United States for alleged ‘systemic racism’, ‘white supremacy’ and ‘interlocking systems of oppression’.
‘According to these materials, whites must first enter a process of ‘decolonization,’ experiencing ‘white guilt’ and thinking, ‘I feel bad for being white.’ Then, after their identity breaks down, they enter a phase of ‘reintegration’, thinking, ‘It’s not my fault I’m white.’
‘ Finally, as whites move through the stages of ‘pseudo-liberty’ and ‘immersion,’ they will begin to ‘work against systems of oppression’ and ‘use [their] Privilege to support anti-caste work. Finally, their psychology must be fully aligned with political ideology,’ tweets Rufo.
‘USF promotes a series of racially segregated scholarship programs that explicitly exclude white students. These programs are in direct violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.’
In the past, Rufo, known for his activism against critical race theory, has described the CRT as ‘pervading every aspect of the federal government’ and ‘a potential threat to the United States of America’.
The University of South Florida is a public research university with its main campus located in Tampa, Florida, and other campuses in St. Petersburg and Sarasota.
Last month Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announces plan to bar state colleges from offering programs on diversity, equity and inclusion, and critical race theory
The finding comes as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis recently proposed legislation to eliminate all DEI and Critical Race Theory programs at state colleges, which is expected to be taken up by the state’s Republican-majority legislature in March.
The second-term governor, who is widely expected to launch a 2024 White House bid in late spring or early summer, has emerged as a fierce opponent of so-called wake-up policies on race, gender and public health.
Such positions endear him to the GOP’s conservative base, but threaten to alienate independents and moderate voters of both parties influential in presidential politics.
Critical race theory is a way of thinking about America’s history through the lens of racism.
Scholars developed it during the 1970s and 1980s in response to what scholars saw as a lack of racial progress following the civil rights legislation of the 1960s.
It centers on the idea that racism is systemic in the country’s institutions, which serve to maintain the dominance of white people in society.
‘I think people want to see true academics and they want to get rid of some of the political window dressing that seems to accompany all of this,’ DeSantis told a news conference last month that important race principles and diversity, equity And adding the inclusion program, known as DEI, ‘will get no funding, and will wither on the vine.’