Paging Sean King.
Via Campus Reform:
Lambda Tau Omega’s Krystallyne Kappa Chapter at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) recently hosted a seminar to highlight what it sees as an epidemic of “white privilege” on campus.
The event, simply titled “White Privilege,” took place on October 3 in the Business Building at TCNJ, but the sorority acknowledged that it was difficult to spur interest at the predominantly-white school.
It’s really hard to get people to actually come to these things…especially when it says ‘White Privilege,’” Lambda Tau Omega President Dyliah Bryant told The Signal. “Once again, it’s just something they’re avoiding the discussion of. And that’s our goal—to make it a discussion.”
Participants addressed issues ranging from an alleged lack of minority professors at TCNJ to racial profiling, and even touched on the judgments individuals face for their fashion choices.
“There are barely any black or Hispanic teachers,” one student lamented during the event.
“If I have dreads, I could have came [sic] from a family who really loves dreads,” another attendee pointed out, asking, “Why are you going to judge me because I have dreads?”
Caitlyn Fair, a Lambda Tau Omega and TCNJ alumna who is now a teacher in the area, told the assembly that the conversation is necessary because many people deny the existence of white privilege, or else employ the phrase “I don’t see color” as a means of avoiding the subject.
Also problematic, one participant asserted, is the phenomenon of “whites wanting to be black.”