I got an email today saying roughly, the media has said this is about shaming and blaming, no it isn't. From the presidents email.

I responded.

"Dear Mr(s): President

I disagree with this "event" as a "privileged" white male. You say that this is not about skin color but instead about the benefits and culture one receives based on skin color alone. This is disgusting, you are actually trying to shame and blame a skin color and shift a burden of guilt onto those people.

As a world travelled individual I have faced racism, been arrested and detained, shaken down and physically assaulted for being white.

Have you ever been locked in an Indian jail unable to speak their language for preventing the rape of one of your friends? I have. None of us could explain our side and we were detained, had our money stolen (never got that back), and denied access to a phone for a night. Finally we got ahold of the embassy and were sprung the next morning. But oh I'm a privileged white male so it's okay I went through that, I have no ability to even envision how much of a free ride I have been given or the hardships people of color experience; and how DARE I feel angry over this injustice done to me because someone else had it worse.

I was spat on and forcibly removed from taxis in Singapore, groped and robbed in Malaysia and Thailand, nearly sexually assaulted in the Philippines, pushed off of a boardwalk and into the sewage bay in Hong Kong, beaten up by local Hawaiians in Maui, had my bicycle stolen by a black neighbor at the age of 10 and was beaten up by his 23 year old brother for trying to get it back all while their mother sat there idle. These things occurred solely for my being white and different, so please believe me I DO understand how people of color feel, I have experienced more than most of them personally.

Please stop telling me I have this leg up in the world, experience shows me I do not. Please stop laying the guilt of centuries old oppression on my shoulders; I am a first generation American, so to suggest I personally should apologize or feel guilt over slavery is illogical. I am not a racist, I'll judge a person on their actions and hold off on forming an opinion before doing that. There are shitty people of color, there are shitty Whites, shitty Asians, shitty Blacks, shitty Hispanics... Ect. The short gist of it being there are shitty people.

How about instead of re-drawing a line in the sand that was crossed decades ago you promote people being less shitty as a whole instead. Why not teach that all people matter instead, ban racist symbols from your campuses (at my last count I've seen 12 "White Tears" mugs and cups being used by YOUR students), if what you are actually trying to do is breed white supremacists this type of event is exactly how. You also lump Asians into the White category when you released those statistics on the racial population, this I find ironic as there are dozens of individual countries that these students hail from, you included them and disrespected their culture to merely have a larger White percentage.

This event isn't about sharing experiences, it's about stripping down "social constructions" and assigning the negative connotations to a single skin color, that color being white. How's this sound let's make May Blackness month, let's talk about the privileges they get (education diversity quotas, government handicaps (firefighters, police and coast guard) getting points added for being of color??, the ability to commit crimes (BLM blocking freeways and city streets) ect.

Yeah let's see how long that takes before you have the NAACP, ACLU and board of directors banging on your office door.

What would you do if a protest arose that had students blocking other students of another skin color from attending classes? If they're white you'd arrest them and charge them with a hate crime. If they're black you'd do nothing in fear of the social backlash and rioting as shown customary when done in these situations in the past. I'll tell you what else you wouldn't refund tuition for those missed classes either.

So please, spare me the pretense that this is anything other than assigning White guilt; should I attend class with a sign on my chest saying "I am white and I am sorry", because that's the message you are spreading right now.

I would love to get a response but fear I will not, maybe I as a white man I cannot see the benefits of this event and could be shown them, or maybe I share with you the feelings of the white students who attend your school and you rethink its suitability for occurring on your campuses."