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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.

“Racism is a white people problem,” said the group’s student founder, Juniper Cruz—a self-described “***** Afro-Latinx Muslim”—at the first meeting, which drew about 50 students.

The Whiteness Group, run through the school’s multicultural center, “works to educate students on whiteness, what it means to be white, and ways to deconstruct whiteness to work towards anti-racist actions,” Cruz said in an interview with The Thrill.

“The discussions explore what it means to be a white person while benefiting from societal privilege, as well as what it means to be a white ally to marginalized groups,” according to campus news reports from the Gambier, Ohio, college.

The group’s second meeting was attended by Rachel Kessler, an Episcopalian priest and chaplainof Kenyon College, who afterward wrote in an email to the school newspaper, “As white people, we can become paralyzed by our sense of shame for our racial privilege or by our fear of accidentally saying something problematic. Neither of those impulses are actually productive for combating racism and white supremacy.”

Founded as a Christian seminary for the formation of Episcopal clergy, Kenyon College opened its doors to women in 1969 and now takes great pride in its diversity, as well as its commitment to “green initiatives.” 

“At Kenyon, we see diversity as central to who we are and what we do — an ideal of inclusiveness that we strive to put into practice every day,” the school’s website states. “We believe that it’s vital to foster diversity in all facets of campus culture, from the people who work and study here, to the experiences they have, to the environment in which they live — the spirit of the place.”

The Whiteness Group exemplifies the school’s quest for a certain sort of diversity typical of modern liberal arts colleges in America, where all opinions and viewpoints are welcome as long as they do not challenge the liberal Zeitgeist.

The group encourages a certain amount of debate but also has regulations.

“Some ground rules at the Snowden Multicultural Center’s Whiteness Group: If you have an unpopular opinion, speak up. No white person can ask a person of color questions; white people must try to answer their questions for themselves. And no spreading rumors about what people say during the meetings,” the Kenyon Collegian reported.

Cruz said the chief aim of the group is to create “a sustainable form of activism.”

“I decided to start this group last semester when I got tired of white people who would post these very intellectual and passionate statuses on their social media accounts, but that’s as far as their activism went,” Cruz said.

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1) “Racism is a white people problem”
Lie, the most racist are Arabs and any shade of Black.
2)  “a sustainable form of activism.”
Lie, Blacks have had very little success in educating anyone.
3) " No white person can ask a person of color questions."
This whole BS line of thinking is nothing but a neanderthal 
pipe dream, wishful version of a child like type of reverse
psychology fooling only idiot Blacks and so called leaders.  

Racism has and always will exist as long as people fail to recognize ALL Sources of racism and acknowledging that racism is present and affects all racial groups including minorities.  In fact what is occurring more and more today is reverse racism which not only cultivates racism in people where it may not have existed before but creates an atmosphere where racism can grow and prosper.

It's time to recognize, all races are affected by racism and that racism is bad in and of itself no matter the source or those that are on the receiving end.   The problem today is that racism is only considered racism if the source is White Americans and bias is alive and well because it's further qualified as racism only if it is from White American Males and all other groups of people are ignored when it comes to racist acts or actions.   Until that is changed and remedied then racism will continue to be alive and well in the United States of America.

Racism is the strangest of human aberrations.  Basically, its distrust of the other.  NSDAP preached hatred of Jews.  Yet, accepted Moslem Arabs within their ranks -- 13th and 21st Mountain Divisions Waffen SS (all Moslem unis).  Both Jews and Arabs are Semitic -- descendants of Abraham.  KKK and such insist whites aka Caucasians are superior.  However, Semitics and Indians (Asian) are Caucasians.  In India the Hindutva party glories in being Aryan as do the Persians (Iran means "Land of the Aryans").  Within black communities there are prejudices against education (acting white).  There is colorism -- some prejudiced against lighter hued blacks and vica versa.   East Asia is a whole nother can of worms.  Some Chinese believe they are the superior race.  Japanese believed almost the same, yet felt inferior to Chinese civilization.  Koreans call Japanese "yellow dwarfs."  Koreans tend to be taller and more tan hued.

If the main thing you are proud of is your skin hue, you are really inferior. 

Their point is, they aren't proud of their shin hue, hair and
non European features. That's exactly why Blacks want non
Black partners. The obvious signs are promoting Black is
Beautiful, BLM, BET and the list is big attempting to cover the
differences.
Most Asia's want the same thing, that'd why Aesthetic
Surgeons are racking up..
 
So why the sudden drive to do away with the White Male.?
Why Black guys with money go straight for the White women.
No White males means no Caucasians and the light shinned
tribe will be a new race.
 And it's OK if the half and half are very racist to the pure 
black crowd because only Whites are racist...     uh huh
 
Things to come, the brainwashed Millennials, big problem...  
 

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