Christian College Hosts ‘People of Color’ Appreciation Lunch – Opinion

You can hold your arm up to the crayon box. Minnesota schools will offer you a meal if your skin is darker than Peach.

To be clear, that’s the case if you’re on staff.

Although you might wonder about the award for your achievement, you may prefer to just enjoy the complimentary food.

As relayed by The College Fix, Gustavus Adolphus College is hosting a People of Color & International Faculty and Staff Appreciation Lunch.

University of Michigan Flint Mark Perry purportedly sent an image of the registration form the Fix.

Mark’s unimpressed — he’s filed a complaint with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR). Professor notes that the Civil Rights Act was violated.

Courtesy of his complaint, “[Gustavus Adolphus College] is legally required to enforce Title VI as a condition of receiving federal financial assistance…”

The lunch is an interesting choice, perhaps particularly during February — otherwise known as Black History Month.

The 28-day observance, of course, is meant to recognize black Americans who’ve managed fantastic feats. They’re people who have changed the country (and maybe the world), not by pigmentation, but creativity, drive, intellect, courage, and/or commitment to a mission.

But as we’re being increasingly told, that’s the old reason for paying someone their due. Actually, meritocracy in itself is racist.

Furthermore, practices which previously led to black Americans to making history — according to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in 2020 — are traits of whiteness:

• Uncompromising Individualism
• The Nuclear Family
• Objective Thinking
• Believe that hard work is key to success
• Future Planning
• Delayed Gratification
• Action orientation
• Decision-Making

The Smithsonian isn’t alone in its view:

University asks: “Is Professionalism Racist? In Honour of Black History Month” https://t.co/O3ouwUgWyE

— Greg Adkins (@Soreknuckles) February 8, 2022

Simultaneously, our current culture’s trophy room is filled with plates and plaques reading “For Participation.” We’re in the age of the selfie stick. And progressively, we’re being told our race defines us.

Thus, whereas once you may have been welcomed to an exclusive gathering based on your life-choice laurels, now you’ll be catered to just because you’ve been tinted as tan.

Meanwhile, clearly, at Gustavus Adolphus College, you’ll also be punished due to your non-meritocratic lack of melanin.

As Professor Mark told the Chicago branch of the OCR, “White faculty and staff are illegally excluded from this discriminatory, illegal, segregated event on the basis of color, race, and national origin.”

Here’s more:

I couldn’t help but notice the irony that the College’s “Office of Equity and Inclusion” is hosting and sponsoring an event that clearly promotes “inequity and exclusion” rather than equity and inclusion by unfairly excluding White faculty and staff. … Further at least for the purposes of the luncheon event the College’s slogan “You Belong Here” doesn’t apply to White faculty and staff. Rather for White faculty staff, it would be more appropriate for the College to say “You Don’t Belong Here,” at least not at this event.

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Back to Gustavus Adolphus College — which is, incidentally, a Lutheran school — hopefully the food on February 25th will be delicious.

For the sake of those not white who work there, with any luck, it won’t just taste like patronization.

-ALEX

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