{"id":32627,"date":"2021-06-07T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T16:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=32627"},"modified":"2021-05-29T12:00:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T16:00:18","slug":"why-dont-the-white-saviors-let-the-bipoc-take-their-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/07\/why-dont-the-white-saviors-let-the-bipoc-take-their-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Why don’t the white saviors let the BIPOC take their jobs?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“White Brandeis Dean Kate Slater posts epic critical race theory rant: \u2018I hate whiteness\u2019”<\/a> (New York Post):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A white Brandeis University administrator defended critical race theory in a social media post that included how she hated \u201cwhiteness.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cYes, all white people are racist in that all white people have been conditioned in a society where one\u2019s racial identity determines life experiences\/outcomes and whiteness is the norm and default,\u201d Kate Slater, assistant dean of Graduate Student Affairs, posted on Instagram.<\/p>

\u201cThat includes me!\u201d added Slater, who describes herself on her personal website as a white anti-racist scholar and educator.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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From kateslater.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previously, she was the Associate Director & Manager of Programs at the Institute for Recruitment of Teachers, a nonprofit that promotes racial equity in the American educational sector. She is also a lecturer at the University of New Hampshire for the course Teaching Race, which explores the history of race and racism in America. Her doctoral research centers the experiences of underrepresented minorities students in higher education, and in particular, at predominantly White institutions.<\/p>

I believe that a core pillar of racial justice work is the redistribution of resources to people of color. I donate 75% of all facilitation \/ training \/ writing fees to individuals, nonprofits, and mutual aid organizations that focus on the uplift of BIPOC communities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Wouldn’t “the experiences of underrepresented minorities students in higher education” be improved if they could see administrators who looked like them? And wouldn’t “the uplift of BIPOC communities” be greater if Dr. Slater resigned and let the Brandeis bureaucrats replace her with a BIPOC?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It makes sense to me that there are white saviors<\/a>. But white savior was not traditionally a paid role. I don’t understand how there can white saviors who say that they’re passionate about improving equity as measured by skin color and who simultaneously collect a paycheck that rightfully belongs to a person with darker skin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along the same lines, the Maskachusetts Senator Ed Markey<\/a>, an old white guy, claims to be somehow an advocate for women and people of color. From March 8, 2020:<\/p>\n\n\n\n