From the UPenn website:
I’m white and I hate myself!
Via Campus Reform:
White students at the University of Pennsylvania have an official student organization to confront their own white privilege.
Students Confronting Racism and White Privilege (SCRWP), according to the university’s website, “was founded by white students with the purpose of confronting their own white privilege.”
The UPenn website describes the student group as a “Political/Advocacy” organization, the same category as, for example, the university’s College Republicans student group. A Facebook page for the student group describes it as “a student organization at the University of Pennsylvania that exists to confront issues of racism and white privilege.”
The university website says that the group “provides a space to do internal work on race and identity that often doesn’t happen in classrooms.”
The only requirement to join the group is “a desire to take an anti-racist stance in learning about race and whiteness, and a willingness to face discomfort, uncertainty, or anger in the process.”
The university website lists Betsy Sneller and Shereen Chang as the directors of the group, both of whom are Ph.D. students at UPenn.
The group has held a variety of events sponsored by the official student government at UPenn. On May 11th the group hosted a discussion on “the phenomenon of white fragility: why white people freak out about race and what to do about it.” The discussion was also sponsored by the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly (GAPSA)—the official student government of the graduate school—and the Graduate School of Education Student Government (GSESG).