CCNY, RACISM, HOMOPHOBIA AND DENIAL

"In Martin Luther King Jr.’s final book—published in 1967, two years after the civil-rights movement had begun to reveal its limits—he proposed that white Americans needed to be more honest with themselves. 'To live with the pretense that racism is a doctrine of a very few,' King wrote, “is to disarm us in fighting it frontally as scientifically unsound, morally repugnant and socially destructive. The prescription for the cure rests with the accurate diagnosis of the disease.' ".*

I wonder if some of my former colleagues at CCNY (including some faculty members and staff in the School of Education and Bilingual Education Program) would be willing to accept that they engaged in what can be considered racist and/or homophobic behaviors. See article linked below to get further explanation on the issue.

("How the Alt-Right Uses Social Science to Make Racism Respectable It'sa strategy long in the making." By Khalil Gibran Muhammad. The Nation: 01/15/2017)

https://www.thenation.com/article/how-the-alt-right-uses-social-science-to-make-racism-respectable/