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A professor wants to teach ‘The Problems of Whiteness.’ A lawmaker calls the class ‘garbage.’

A professor wants to teach ‘The Problems of Whiteness.’ A lawmaker calls the class ‘garbage.’

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. · Wednesday, December 28th 2016 at 9:55AM · 1877 views
A professor wants to teach ‘The Problems of Whiteness.’ A lawmaker calls the class ‘garbage.’

By Cleve R. Wootson Jr. December 28 at 6:30 AM

Every Wednesday next semester, the students in Damon Sajnani’s class will meet to discuss, in depth, the problems caused by white people.

But the title of the course — “The Problem of Whiteness” — and its description has the University of Wisconsin at Madison mired in controversy before students have cracked open a book or peeked at a syllabus.

“Have you ever wondered what it really means to be white? If you’re like most people, the answer is probably ‘no.’ But here is your chance!” the description reads.

“Critical Whiteness Studies aims to understand how whiteness is socially constructed and experienced in order to help dismantle white supremacy.”

The course explores “how race is experienced by white people.” But it also looks at how white people “consciously and unconsciously perpetuate institutional racism.”

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Steve Williams Wednesday, December 28th 2016 at 9:20PM

Ordinary citizens also think it's garbage.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Wednesday, December 28th 2016 at 11:06PM

Interesting Subject “The Problem of Whiteness”

Steve Williams Thursday, December 29th 2016 at 2:55AM

There is no problem of whiteness, no problem of blackness. There IS a problem of dumbness.

robert powell Thursday, December 29th 2016 at 11:45AM


Interesting Subject “The Problem of Whiteness”

Wednesday, December 28th 2016 at 11:06PM
Deacon Ron Gray

There is no problem of whiteness, no problem of blackness. There IS a problem of dumbness.
Thursday, December 29th 2016 at 2:55AM
Steve Williams

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I Agree with SELF PROFESSED 'whiteManSteveAdam' and 'blackHebrewIsraelite'

------- Is "a problem of dumbness"....the same as racist I G N O R A N C E?

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Thursday, December 29th 2016 at 3:23PM

I wonder will that be in the Professors syllabus "dumbness."

Steve Williams Thursday, December 29th 2016 at 9:51PM

One tweet is a picture of a CNN breaking news report about police officers being shot in Dallas. “Is the uprising finally starting?” Sajnani said. “Is this style of protest gonna go viral?”

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Thursday, December 29th 2016 at 10:42PM

This blog is not about a CNN breaking news. stay on topic...

Steve Williams Friday, December 30th 2016 at 6:55AM

This blog is about professor Sajnani, who wants to teach his students that whites deserve to die.

Steve Williams Friday, December 30th 2016 at 7:10AM

course title refers to the challenge of understanding white identity and non-white identity across the globe,” the university wrote in a statement Monday night. It is not mandatory, and “will benefit students who are interested in developing a deeper understanding of race issues,” officials said.

But the controversy escalated Tuesday when Murphy also drew attention to tweets from the course’s instructor, professor Damon Sajnani, in a news release.

In one tweet, posted the night last July when five police officers were killed by a gunman in Dallas, Sajnani included a photo of news coverage of the shooting and wrote, “Is the uprising finally starting? Is this style of protest gonna go viral?”

Professor's tweet
In another from the same night, Sajnani linked to a song called “Officer Down” and wrote, “Watching CNN, this is the song I am currently enjoying in my head.”

Professor's tweet

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Friday, December 30th 2016 at 9:35AM

STEVEN YOUR WORDS: I Quote: "This blog is about professor Sajnani, who wants to teach his students that whites deserve to die."

WTF are you talking about now?

"WHITES DESERVE TO DIE!!!" Please, tell me how you came to that conclusion from those tweets? "WHITES DESERVE TO DIE!!!"

Steve Williams Friday, December 30th 2016 at 10:11AM

Tell me how you did NOT come to that conclusion Ron.

robert powell Friday, December 30th 2016 at 1:35PM


Damon Sajnani
Assistant Professor

Africana cultural studies; social and political theory; HipHop studies; critical race theory;......

I must say that 'whiteMan' steveAdam and 'blackHebrewIsraelite' deacon TAKE this TOO FAR with...

"......."WHITES DESERVE TO DIE!!!" Please, tell me how you came to that conclusion from those tweets? "WHITES DESERVE TO DIE!!!" ....."

Friday, December 30th 2016 at 9:35AM
Deacon Ron Gray

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1. hippityHoppity African American studies are DONE by EVERY American

2. "critical race theory"......IS JUST a Theory that The Family of Adaam(as) has 'races'

----- skin tone DOWN your rhetoric its racistlyIgnorant Nonsense

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Friday, December 30th 2016 at 1:49PM

STEVEN, The reason why I did not get "WHITES DESERVE TO DIe from those tweets" is because I don't think like you, that is the reason why I asked you the question "WHITES DESERVE TO DIE!!!" Please, tell me how you came to that conclusion from those tweets?

I am standing by for your answer, would you answer that question STEVEN?




Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Friday, December 30th 2016 at 3:02PM

WHY DID YOU SAY "WHITES DESERVE TO DIE???

Steve Williams Friday, December 30th 2016 at 5:56PM

Because Ron, Doctor Sajnani said that the assassination of five Dallas police officers was a PROTEST!

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Friday, December 30th 2016 at 6:29PM

That is BULL💩 STEVEN and you know it. The, assassination of five Dallas police officers do not equal up to your interpretation that "WHITES DESERVE TO DIE!!!" Try again. WHY DID YOU SAY THAT?




Steve Williams Friday, December 30th 2016 at 6:42PM

Hay Ron, Madison is not too far from you, go take the course and get back to me.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Friday, December 30th 2016 at 7:05PM

I could teach the class.

You made a statement that "WHITES DESERVE TO DIE," Why did you say that?


Steve Williams Friday, December 30th 2016 at 7:19PM

Only a first year associate PhD could teach such a class.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Friday, December 30th 2016 at 7:31PM

Now lets get back to this question: "You made a statement that "WHITES DESERVE TO DIE," Why did you say that?"

Steve Williams Friday, December 30th 2016 at 7:37PM


Because Ron, Doctor Sajnani said that the assassination of five Dallas police officers was a PROTEST!
Friday, December 30th 2016 at 5:56PM
Steve Williams | delete

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Friday, December 30th 2016 at 9:06PM

So, that why you said: "WHITES DESERVE TO DIE?"

Steve Williams Saturday, December 31st 2016 at 2:54AM

Here's the song the professor was enjoying in his head when five Dallas officers were ambushed in cold blood.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GdgRL-XP4D8

Steve Williams Saturday, December 31st 2016 at 3:11AM

"The heavily armed sniper who gunned down police officers in downtown Dallas, leaving five of them dead, specifically set out to kill as many white officers as he could, officials said Friday."

Steve Williams Saturday, December 31st 2016 at 3:41AM

Speaking of police, looks like this got forgotten amid all the election drama.

Ramsey County Attorney John Choi filed second-degree manslaughter charges Wednesday against St. Anthony police officer Jeronimo Yanez in the July fatal shooting of Philando Castile in Falcon Heights.

http://www.twincities.com/2016/11/16/crimi...

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Saturday, December 31st 2016 at 10:52AM

I don't condone such activities but you never did answer my question: The Word "PROTEST!" Spark you to say: "WHITES DESERVE TO DIE," WHY? Don't tell me about the professor, tell me why you think "WHITES DESERVE TO DIE."

Steve Williams Saturday, December 31st 2016 at 11:53AM

Killing as many white police officers as possible is not a protest Ron, it's terrorism.

Steve Williams Saturday, December 31st 2016 at 11:56AM

And it's working well in Chicago, at the cost of hundreds and hundreds of lives.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Saturday, December 31st 2016 at 4:11PM

Steven, these are your FEARS and the FEARS of racist people and groups all over this country, that think like you. You know that you have never worried about people in this country PROTESTING or equated the assassination of five Dallas officers as a PROTEST before. You had a FLASH BACK to some deep seeded FEAR of your very own. That is why you can't explain why you said: "WHITES DESERVE TO DIE," STEVEN "PROTEST," my eye!!!

This is a FEAR or a inadequacies within your personality of losing what some people like you FEAR of losing and that is the reason why you blurted out "WHITES DESERVE TO DIE." This may go back to your believe in protecting The 2nd Amendment rights.

This is a deep seeded believe or a subliminal inbreded believe that some how the descendants of former slaves are equal to a white person. This is a secret that some lawmakers don't want to be taught in college and the bases of this blog STEVEN, " A professor wants to teach ‘The Problems of Whiteness’ A lawmaker calls the class ‘garbage.’

This is what makes this subliminal or purposeful code words for people like yourself have meaning: "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN."

This phrase made White Women vote for a man that boasted of grabbing women s G E N I T A L S or put them in jail or seek some kind of punishment for having a abortion.

Make the older white men vote against their own interest in the form of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid or the Affordable Care Act, the very same programs that they now enjoy because in one case one of those programs was nick named Obamacare, after the first BLACK PRESIDENT of this country but if you call that same program Affordable Care Act those same people don't want you to touch that program.

For this FEAR alone needs to be studied and exposed for what it is and will be the downfall of this country in todays modern technical society.




Steve Williams Saturday, December 31st 2016 at 4:34PM

Ron, some of us in this country treat everyone the same way and some don't. Your party is the party of IDENTITY not mine. P.S. I don't have a PARTY.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Saturday, December 31st 2016 at 5:15PM

It appears that you have missed the essence of my last reply to you STEVEN. I am not talking about a party of any kind.
I am talking about your most deepest FEARS and that LIE YOU BEEN TELLING.

Steve Williams Saturday, December 31st 2016 at 7:34PM

How do you know what my deepest fear is Ron?

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Saturday, December 31st 2016 at 7:57PM

Through your words STEVEN.

Steve Williams Saturday, December 31st 2016 at 8:26PM

I've said nothing about my deepest fear Ron. But it has nothing to do with blackness or whiteness.

Steve Williams Saturday, December 31st 2016 at 8:36PM

Least of all Democrats.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Saturday, December 31st 2016 at 9:10PM

Why did you say that "WHITES DESERVE TO DIE?"

Steve Williams Sunday, January 1st 2017 at 3:25AM

Because Ron, because of people like your professor and Charlie Sheen.

Charlie Sheen tweets 'Trump next please' after death of Debbie Reynolds

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/30...

robert powell Sunday, January 1st 2017 at 9:08AM


"...Why did you say that "WHITES DESERVE TO DIE?" ...."


Saturday, December 31st 2016 at 9:10PM
Deacon Ron Gray


".....because of people like your professor and Charlie Sheen....."

Sunday, January 1st 2017 at 3:25AM
Steve Williams

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Dr. Sajnani is an African American

Dr. Sajnani is NOT a wildEyed Charlie Sheen......

---- you 'whiteMen' of racistIgnorance want to LUMP all non'White' in the same OTHER?

STOP it and take your dumbDonkey arse OUT of the BIA.....African American Family Site

Steve Williams Sunday, January 1st 2017 at 9:20AM

I didn't lump anyone into ANY kind of OTHER. I said I'm sick and tired of IDENTITY politics.

Steve Williams Sunday, January 1st 2017 at 9:40AM

The syllabus described Critical Whiteness Studies as a field “concerned with dismantling white supremacy in part by understanding how whiteness is socially constructed and experienced.” Readings included works by Toni Morrison, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (“Racism without Racists”) and Jane H. Hill (“The Everyday Language of White Racism”).

For the coming semester, Bebout will add Ta-Nehisi Coates’s recent book “Between the World and Me.”

Whereas disciplines such as African American studies and Asian American studies focus on race as it relates to communities of color, such courses as Bebout’s look at how race is experienced by white people, exploring institutional racism and the dominance of those considered “white” in America.

Steve Williams Sunday, January 1st 2017 at 9:47AM

Have you ever wondered what it really means to be white? If you’re like most people, the answer is probably “no.” But here is your chance! In Frantz Fanon’s famous Black Skin, White Masks (1952), his chapter “Look, a Negro!” interrogated the meaning and experience of coming to know oneself as Black under the constant scrutiny of the white gaze. It is an experience concomitant with W.E.B. Du Bois’s observation that under systemic racism, even well-meaning whites are constantly asking, in one way or another, “what is it like to be a problem?” But, Like Richard Wright’s quote above, philosopher George Yancy’s book, Look, a White! (2010), turns the question around, and rightly returns “the problem of whiteness” to white people. After all, since white supremacy was created by white people, is it not white folks who have the greatest responsibility to eradicate it? Our class begins here. We will come together with our socially ascribed identities of Black, white, mixed and other and, with the problem properly in its place we will ask ourselves and our allies, what are we going to do with it?

http://african.wisc.edu/content/problem-wh...

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Sunday, January 1st 2017 at 10:42AM

Great read but you still evaded the question, why did you say that "WHITES DESERVE TO DIE?"

Steve Williams Sunday, January 1st 2017 at 10:44AM

I gave you my answer Ron.

Steve Williams Sunday, January 1st 2017 at 10:47AM

You just love to spin in circles. Why don't you articulate the subject of YOUR blog, "the problem of whiteness"?

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Sunday, January 1st 2017 at 11:11AM

What was that again?

Steve Williams Sunday, January 1st 2017 at 12:32PM

I don't see a problem of whiteness. One of these academics needs to offer a social studies course titled The Problem of Humanness.

robert powell Sunday, January 1st 2017 at 2:18PM


A professor wants to teach ‘The Problems of Whiteness.’ A lawmaker calls the class ‘garbage.’

SUBJECT

you 2 Two...'blackWhite' Identifiers.....NEED to STOP youALLs racistlyIgnorant Comments at BIA an

African American Famly Site.....

..... BOTH of youALL Leroys are Like the lawmaker calling The PROFESSOR 'garbage'

'garbage' is 'whiteBlack' Trash or 'blackWhite' Trash.....and the following comments are 'whiteTrash'..

"....I didn't lump anyone into ANY kind of OTHER. I said I'm sick and tired of IDENTITY politics.....I don't see a problem of whiteness.."

Sunday, January 1st 2017 at 9:20AM
Steve Williams

"...........WHITES DESERVE TO DIE........?"
Sunday, January 1st 2017 at 10:42AM
Deacon Ron Gray

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1. If your LYIN 'whiteTrashyArse' is SOOO into 'Humanness' ..... How do you PULL crackHead charlieSheen out of

your crackHead and try to COMPARE him with ... The HONORABLE African American Dr. Sajnani ?

2. you JUST LYIN, like deacon......ALL you are is RACISTLY IGNORANT......

----- paganChristian EuropeanRACISTS made your problem of 'whiteNESS'

A Problem that the European RACISTS have CONTAMINATED every Continent on Earth with...

Leave youAll Leroy Humanists.......

Steve Williams Sunday, January 1st 2017 at 4:04PM

What Robert, you know EVERYONE up in your neck of the woods?

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Sunday, January 1st 2017 at 4:30PM

2. you JUST LYIN, like deacon......ALL you are is RACISTLY IGNORANT......

----- paganChristian EuropeanRACISTS made your problem of 'whiteNESS'

A Problem that the European RACISTS have CONTAMINATED every Continent on Earth with...

Leave youAll Leroy Humanists.......

All of this is a diversion for your boy STEVEN and it don't mean a thing, I have seen this play too many times.

Back to you STEVEN, if you don't see a problem of whiteness, then why did you blurt out "WHITES DESERVE TO DIE?"

Steve Williams Sunday, January 1st 2017 at 5:33PM

I didn't blurt out anything.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Sunday, January 1st 2017 at 8:06PM

THESE ARE YOUR WORDS STEVEN:

"This blog is about professor Sajnani, who wants to teach his students that whites deserve to die."
Friday, December 30th 2016 at 6:55AM

this came out of the clear BLUE!!! Now are you going to DENY WHAT YOU WROTE, WHY? Can you answer that?



Steve Williams Sunday, January 1st 2017 at 8:57PM

What I said was well considered.

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