Davidson School, situated in North Carolina, is below fireplace from alumni after the revelation that student-athletes on the faculty have been required to observe the video “I’m Not Racist … Am I?” which paints all white individuals as racists.
The Davidsonians for Freedom of Thought and Discourse, an alumni-run free speech group, uncovered and denounced the video after studying the North Carolina establishment compelled pupil athletes to observe it this semester.
Notably, “in one clip of the film that we uncovered, is the unequivocal repetition that all white people are racist, and people of color cannot be racist,” the group instructed The School Repair in an announcement by way of e-mail final week.
“The students with whom we have spoken about this film found it offensive, divisive, and personally insulting,” the group acknowledged.
Furthermore, the athletic division opted to indicate the movie on a Sunday afternoon as an alternative of regular college hours, in accordance with the group. College students “were disappointed that the Athletic Department would compel them to participate in this event for over three hours on a Sunday afternoon,” the group instructed The Repair.
Watch:
“So, are you saying that all white people are racist?”
“Yes.”
“We would also say that it’s only white people that could be racist, that are racist.”
You must watch this clip from a movie Davidson School required all its student-athletes to observe. pic.twitter.com/Q0STbgZNCB
— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) February 27, 2024
In a petition on Change.org, the group shares:
Whereas, quite a few course syllabi at Davidson School have lately been discovered to mandate controversial “anti-oppression” behaviors unrelated to the course topic in courses comparable to Spanish 101, multivariable calculus, and cell biology, and
Whereas, all scholar-athletes have been lately required to view a extremely controversial movie titled, “I’m Not Racist…Am I?” (See Full Letter Right here)
We, the undersigned, urge Davidson School to undertake a set of insurance policies and tips on pupil rights that comports with the American Affiliation of College Professor’s assertion on tutorial freedom that guards in opposition to the power of school to introduce into their instructing controversial matter which has no relation to their topic.
Additional, we ask that the school undertake insurance policies that restrict the power of employees or departments to compel college students to take part in occasions or interact in actions which can be political or ideological in nature and that aren’t a typical a part of coaching or schooling.
We urge President Hicks to take these considerations to the College Govt Committee, and every other related our bodies that could possibly craft and undertake these insurance policies.
In 2021, The Gateway Pundit reported Davidson School started providing programs centered round instructing college students Marxist “black political and feminist theories” that can help them in activism to abolish the police together with “#Abolishthepolice” and “Abolishing Prisons and the Police.”
The “critical black studies” class at Davidson teaches college students that non-whites and LGBT persons are disproportionately focused, inflicting them to be “routinely” surveilled, arrested, incarcerated and sexually assaulted by cops. They intend to make use of radical “social and political philosophies” to decry policing in all kinds, together with what they outline as “police militarization.”
