AmRen - U of Michigan - Anthony Bryan: Some Advice for Aggrieved Students of Color - "White people don’t treat you differently because they’re racist; they treat you differently because they know you think they’re racist. They know there is a sword of Damocles hanging over their heads."

Some Advice for Aggrieved Students of Color

Built on a framework of violent racism.

Count your blessings and keep your distance.

Over the past several semesters non-white students at the University of Michigan have published articles in the student newspaper as part of a series called Michigan in Color. Like most universities, Michigan is obsessed with race, but it was apparently necessary to indulge in even more venting about “racism” and the sufferings of minorities.

These essays read like a parody of racial grievance and academic lingo. There is lots of talk of “awareness raising” and “facilitating change,” and–the new favorite–“creating spaces.” The writers vacillate between wallowing in victimhood and vainglorious racial triumphalism (“I conquer with a crown of black gold.”). Overwrought, self-indulgent grievance flouting is where narcissism meets hypersensitivity. ...

http://www.amren.com/news/2015/02/some-advice-for-aggrieved-students-of-color/