by Selwyn Duke, The New American:
How would it go over if people said that white kids could only be instructed by white guides and educators and then fired non-white employees on that basis? What would be the reaction if the justification was, “Well, white kids just can’t relate to non-white staff?”
This hasn’t happened, of course — but the reverse has. A recent example is the axing of white museum docents (volunteer guides) in the name of prejudice euphemized as “diversity.”
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The Washington Examiner has the story:
Portland public school retired art teacher Paulla Dacklin had been volunteering as a docent at the Portland Art Museum [PAM] for years. The 71-year-old remained active in her community by leading 30 tours a year for students of the Portland Public Schools.
She was not surprised when the museum stopped asking her to come in when COVID-19 hit. The schools were closed. But as the schools and museum reopened, her phone stayed silent. She began to wonder why. Finally, this August, an email went out to all museum volunteers. The 40-year-old docent program was being eliminated in favor of paid “learning guides” hired from local universities.
Explaining the museum’s decision to dump its mostly white volunteer staff for paid diverse employees, the museum’s executive director told a local paper that the museum was “evolving to meet the needs of the community.”
Of course, these “needs” are actually “wants,” wants that are actually prejudices — and these prejudices are actually prevalent. “If a story about an art museum dumping its docent program because the vast majority of the docents were retired white women seems familiar, it should,” the Examiner continues. “The same thing has happened to art museums in Chicago, Birmingham, Denver, and Oakland.”
Willamette Week’s Rachel Saslow provides an example of what exactly troubles the anti-white crowd. “In August 2020, the website Slate ran an article titled ‘Museums Have a Docent Problem’ that opened with the cringey scene of an older white woman guiding a group of young Black and Asian visitors through an exhibit of the works of Jamaican American artist Nari Ward at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art,” she writes. “(The girls asked, ‘What’s Black Power?’ It got even more awkward from there.)”
“Cringey”? A little perspective: Imagine someone wrote, “The article opened with the cringey scene of an older black woman guiding a group of young white and Asian visitors through an exhibit of the works of Western Culture. (The girls asked, ‘What’s White Power?’ It got even more awkward from there.)” How many people would be canceled as a result?
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