OU: It's Your Fault We Have Few Black Engineers

[Dale00]

The University of Oklahoma is kicking off the “Year of Diversity” by trying to shame students into admitting their “privilege.”

The Gallogly College of Engineering website states the school will “celebrate diversity” through events that “enhance awareness of the issues faced by underrepresented members of our engineering community and promote GCoE’s inclusive climate that is welcoming of all differences.”

Therefore, the school has taken the initiative to place “footprints” around engineering buildings that attempt to shame people for not acknowledging their “privilege” and for the fact that African Americans are not choosing to earn Ph.D.s in engineering:

“Year of Diversity” action committee member and director of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Randa Shehab, confirmed the text of the footprints to MRCTV.

Although one of the footprints states it’s an individual’s “fault” for not acknowledging his or her privilege, the school states the footprints are designed to “prompt healthy dialogue and conversation.”

It is unclear how a footprint instructing people to feel guilty for having “privilege” will prompt a “healthy dialogue” and be part of a “inclusive climate that is welcoming of all differences.”

It is also unclear how a footprint stating only “1.5% of all engineering Ph.D. [sic] awarded went to African Americans in the U.S. last year” will make more black people want to earn engineering doctorates.

The footprints appear to use text from the American Society for Engineering Education’s “Year of Action on Diversity.”

The footprints are allegedly placed up around the Carson Engineering Center, Felgar Hall, and the Devon Energy Hall.

In addition to placing footprints around campus in an attempt to shame high-achieving engineering students, the “Year of Diversity” will also include events such as a “Spring Festival of Diversity.”

The “Year of Diversity” appears to be part of the College of Engineering’s Diversity & Inclusion program.

http://www.mrctv.org/blog/university-oklahoma-it-s-your-fault-if-you-deny-privilege

 

[okietool]

So OU can just give the underrepresented groups engineering degrees and turn them loose, simple solution.

 

[RugerSooner]

As an OU student who was once an engineering major. This is legit but no one takes it seriously. They send out emails to the students and the students ignore them. It's all publicity and hype

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[deerwhacker444]

Not my fault if Blacks don't want to drive trains.

 

[Commander Keen]

Not my fault if Blacks don't want to drive trains.

You should really check your privilege and stop with the micro-aggressions.

 

[SoonerP226]

You should really check your privilege and stop with the micro-aggressions.

I've checked my privilege, and it appears to be in perfect working order.

 

[KOPBET]

Not my fault if Blacks don't want to drive trains.

Simple. You can't wear coveralls lower than your ass cheeks with your underwear showing...

 

[cjjtulsa]

designed to “prompt healthy dialogue and conversation.”

In other words, "sit down and shut up, whitey - we're going to tell you what to think and how to act.

It's amazing to look at everything that "white privilege" has afforded society. Why, people can even get onto a device created by white privilege, on a network created by white privilege - even with electricity harnessed and generated by the discoveries of white privilege.....and ***** about that evil white privilege. Shouldn't they be using the inventions and technological breakthroughs created by sub-Saharan Africans to convey their dissatisfaction?

 

[twoguns?]

This is Krazy...everyone knoiws stripes make your but look bigger....;/

 

[1911DA]

Yeah it's kind of like that higher math, science, logical thought processes and critical thinking thing doesn't get in the way