by Michael Ginsberg
DailyCaller.com
A Virginia official promoted Critical Race Theory trainings and writings during a presentation to America’s oldest military academy’s Board of Visitors.
Dr. Janice Underwood, the state of Virginia’s Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer, told the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) Board of Visitors that ‘White Fragility’ author and diversity consultant Robin DiAngelo’s thinking explains why “talking about race is so difficult.” She encouraged the Board to engage in “uncomfortable” conversations surrounding race, another concept promoted by DiAngelo, and introduce racialized thinking into “every single course” at VMI.
DiAngelo, a former professor at Westfield State University, has written that “common white responses [to discussions of the privileging of whites] include anger, withdrawal, emotional incapacitation, guilt, argumentation, and cognitive dissonance.”