On the other hand, “people of color cannot be racists,” and there is no such thing in the United States as “reverse racism,” a term “created and used by White people to deny their White privilege.”
Brooke Aldrich, 18, a freshman from Hockessin, told The Associated Press she left one floor meeting for her dorm “feeling like I was a racist somehow because I was a White person or because I haven’t been oppressed.”
According to the Office of Residence Life’s diversity vision statement, “racism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism, ableism and other behaviors and systems that empower some while oppressing others will not be tolerated.”
The ostensible goal of the residence hall education program was to help students attain “citizenship.” The “competencies” that students were expected to achieve include recognizing that “systemic oppression exists in our society.”
Sample questions for one-on-one training sessions between resident assistants and dormitory students included “When were you first made aware of your race?” and “When did you discover your sexual identity?”
Students have said they were told that participation in the program was mandatory. Gilbert said in a letter to FIRE last Wednesday that the school had taken steps “to clarify this misconception.”
Gilbert also took issue with the presumption that UD students “are so empty-headed and ignorant that they would be ‘indoctrinated’ with ease.”
--Associated Press
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