In Mandatory Training, CA Faculty Union Leader Says There’s Nothing Good About ‘White’ Culture

During last week’s two-day mandatory “antiracism” training for members of the California Faculty Association leaders went just a bit further than many Critical Race Theory sessions – including laughing over the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.

The union, also known as CALFAC, is the exclusive collective bargaining agent for all faculty in the 23-campus California State University system, including lecturers, professors, counselors, librarians, and coaches.

As expected, its objectives were the same-old, same-old, according to screenshots provided exclusively to RedState by an attendee:

• Understand the pillars holding up White Supremacy
• Remind us of our nation’s history and how it has normalized racism in an array of dynamics – historical, cultural, institutional, and interpersonal
• Understand key definitions of racism (individual, interpersonal, structural, and institutional)

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At the beginning of the second day, the attendee described a creepy group exercise CALFAC representatives led:

First, we were all asked to say where we *feel* our race in our bodies, and answers were solicited.

The attendee, who teaches courses in cultural and social competency, told RedState:

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Most of everything discussed [simply] included the following messages, repeated:

• We are living under a white supremacy
• Certain groups (minorities) who don’t support these messages are actually just co-opted and attempting to act as “model minorities”
• History is only taught from one side

The training was led by Audrena Redmond, who serves as the union’s Program Director for Anti​-​Racism Social Justice work:

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Redmond is also the co-founder of Black Lives Matter – Long Beach and the Director of Political Education for Black Lives Matter, which might explain her answer to questions from two – white – female members pushing back on her characterizations of “white” culture.

The first woman disputed Redmond’s assertion that there was just one “white culture.”

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Redmond affirmed her position, replying, “That would be — yes, that’s the dominant white culture in America — in America, is WASP.”

Another participant then followed up, asking, “Can I ask, then, what your definition of this WASP white culture is?”

Redmond replied (emphasis added):

“I mean, I have my whole list of narratives, right, for me. And for me it is – it’s – none of it’s good, if you’re gonna ask me what my narratives are, for the most part. So — but if you think — remember yesterday I talked about the founding of “White” as — as codified into law, what it meant to be “White”? And so I’ll start — so I’ll stay with that. Which at that time it was — WASP was first, White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, from England, from Britain, under the King, King James and those folks, and then everybody else who was acceptable enough was considered — was considered as secondary whites. So I’ll stay with that.

So in America, as “White” was codified into law, White Anglo-Saxon Protestant was at the top of what that means. So I could do my own list of narratives, but we’ll move to the next group. But is that good?

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