As a RMN reader once said to me (and you should look in the mirror and say it too) 'SAY IT LOUD, I'M WHITE AND I'M PROUD'!! If your are Black, Asian or Latino feel free to say it for your race also. BTW I get to toss in '..I'm part OGLALA SIOUX and I'm PROUD'!

If you have High School or College aged children, grandchildren, nieces or nephews talk to them about their races and how they should be proud of their culture. Not to the exclusion or suppression of others but in their races accomplishments albeit White, Black, Asian, Latino, Indian, Persian et al. ALL races have created, nurtured, been courageous, spiritual, loyal and independent. ALL races have killed, enslaved, raped, HATED, warred, torn down and destroyed. Find out the good traits of your race and be proud.

In case you have not noticed it, there is a war on against the white man... In Europe, in the UK and here. Every campaign of mass genocide has 'de-humanised' its intended victims first!!

Susoni

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Here is her University page:

http://www.ucdenver.edu/research/ORDE/aboutUs/Pages/NaomiNishi.aspx
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A University of Colorado, Denver administrator is worried that white children may “forfeit their humanity” if they aren’t raised by sufficiently progressive parents.

In a recent academic journal article, Naomi Nishi calls for "critical race parenting" of white children "to ward off white identity and whiteness before children succumb and forfeit their humanity in order to join the oppressor."

A University of Colorado, Denver administrator worries that white children may “forfeit their humanity” if they aren’t raised by sufficiently progressive parents.

In an academic article, Naomi Nishi, who facilitates educational programs for professors and periodically teaches classes, argues that parents should employ “critical race parenting” to prevent white children from committing “racial microaggressions” against their peers.

Nishi goes on to suggest that white people are “constantly wielding racial microaggressions,” and that over time these microaggressions can cause “racial battle fatigue,” noting that children of color are especially susceptible to the “self-hatred” this causes.

White children, on the other hand, are especially prone to committing racial microaggressions because they “learn a complicated dance of whiteness” that teaches them not only to “maintain and defend whiteness,” but to do so while claiming to be “colorblind.”

Although her article focuses mainly on her own experiences as a parent, Nishi’s essay is preoccupied with whiteness among children, eventually asserting that “whites, to pay for their embracing of whiteness, forfeit their own humanity.”

“Thus whites enter into this Faustian exchange even as children and begin the ‘sadomasochistic’ relationship where in their work to love whiteness, their souls waste away as they are quietly tearing themselves from humanity and real love,” she writes.

Nishi then questions whether it is possible for parents to prevent children from developing a “white identity,” suggesting that parents ought to teach their kids “to reject whiteness and white identity.”

“[C]an we instead begin at the core with our white children and work to ward off white identity and whiteness before children succumb and forfeit their humanity in order to join the oppressor?” she asks.

Her article was published in the latest issue of the Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, alongside a half-dozen other articles on the importance of the emerging field of critical race parenting.