The University of Minnesota hosted a webinar series that included a 12-step program akin to Alcoholics Anonymous to teach white people how to “recover and reclaim our full humanity.”
“Recovery from White Conditioning” is a two hour lecture “rooted in love and accountability,” that teaches white people to “transform violent legacies of whiteness into healthier, white, anti-racist community,” by utilizing a 12-step recovery model based on the Alcoholics Anonymous program.
The lecture was created by 2008 alumnus Christina Combs, a therapist who developed the model “after years of struggling to navigate the role and presence of whiteness in her personal, academic, and professional journeys.”
Combs began her lecture by acknowledging George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, along with the Dakota Tribe, which previously settled on the land the university was built on. Her goal for the lecture: “decentering whiteness.”
When she asked the audience their definition of white supremacy, Combs played slides of the Ku Klux Klan and the movie poster for American History X, before displaying a slide with her own likeness as “the face of White Supremacy.”
She said that accepting her “connection to white supremacy has been a freedom of sorts to show up in better alignment with my values and do the work for the rest of my life.”
Combs then launched into the 12-step model, which is a near parody of the AA program, swapping out alcohol and any talk of God, and with terms like “the lens of white supremacy” and “inclusive sense of reality.”
The first step of the Alcoholics Anonymous program is “we admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.” In Comb’s model, step one is admitting “that we had been socially conditioned by the ideology of white supremacy.”
Other gems include step four, boldly exploring how “white supremacist teachings have been integrated” into the minds and spirits of Caucasians,” deconstructing “ways of knowing” developed by “the lens of white supremacy” in step six, and step ten’s notion to focus on the impact, rather than intention of “interactions with people of color.”
The lecture is the first of a three part series: “Deconstructing & Decentralizing White-ness in Practice,” presented by the university’s School of Social Work and Continuing Education Series.
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It’s more than just the alleged mythical excuse of white privilege?
It’s living in a Republic like the USA where Socialism is not the end all answer in addressing life’s hardships and daily struggles which many immigrants faced, endured, overcame, and left behind in order to create a new life for themselves and their loved ones.
Absolutely idiotic.
To call them Imbeciles would be complimenting them.
And insulting imbeciles…
Deep blue Minnesota. ‘Nuff said.
What other races or ethnic groups are being offered a program to recover from what they are?
Certainly not the large Muslim Community they have there. They have saddled us with Omar further fracturing America as founded!
People should become more careful before they send their kids to college, if at all. Colleges poison the thoughts of students and have been doing so for a long time, all though most of us were unaware of that.
MY college never did! I went to a private Catholic College and I assure you they never even tried to brainwash us!
The same was true of my Methodist college and my Catholic graduate university. Thanks.
soros should have been deported years ago , he thinks he is a god but do i have
news for him!!!! maybe a devil NEVER A GOD ANY KIND OF god!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m ashamed my tax dollars are being used to develop and spew such a misdirected notion.Get this person some treatment immediately and keep her from getting near young, impressionable minds!
TOXIC!!!!
Given what’s happened in the Twin Cities maybe they should consider a 12-step program for Antifa, rioters, looters, Marxists, socialists and the like.
Are you kidding me? The only racist destructive people I see today are those who are part of BLM and Antifa. You use Breonna Taylor as one of your down trodden this girl could have been anything. She sold her soul and her morals to crime.
I’m ashamed to admit that U of MN is my Alma Mater… in my defense it was back when Kurt Cobain was smashing guitars onstage, but still.
Any American alumni with brains will discontinue their support.
What a bunch of F’n idiots!
I say they should take their “AA-style, 12 step program” seminar BS and cram it up their collective behinds. I’m perfectly happy with being not much darker than a bleached white sheet and I don’t feel the need to “recover” from something I can’t help, thank you very much. No matter what color you are or what you look like, you should embrace it and be proud.
This is the world the left wants us to move to, where everyone is a victim of something and only government can step in to solve the problems. If you did not create the problem than your skin color created it, how illogical is that premise and yet that is what we are to believe in order to get “healed”.
Reddere cur minus esse stultus docuit? It’s worth every dime.
I think I will pass from participating in your racist
b.s. program..I am no better than anyone based
solely on the color of my skin…but in addition I
don’t apologize for being white..embrace your
culture..nobody should be ashamed of their
heritage.
this is pretty dopey way to address adults and i when i was 18-21 i thought of myself as an ADULT. I expect people today who are 18-21 to be ADULTS and not immature self centered brats. Much simpler and more meaningful advice is DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WANT THEM TO DO UNTO YOU!
The Global White Minority needs to identify with issues impacting Whites, not this kind of anti White racism.
I was born White and I don’t have to, nor do I want to, apologize for what God has given me.
12 step recovery? How does that work, your skin turns darker at the end of this?!
Yeah, pass
It is absolutely idiotic to believe that the majority of white people are racist. The real racists are the ones calling someone a racist based solely on the color of their skin. I think the racists who devised this lecture should be fired for being racist. They are obviously very stupid because they proved it with this lecture. You want to stop racism in this country quit bring up race and just treat everyone the same regardless of race. After all we are all brothers and sisters and descended from Adam and Eve. Let’s get back to teaching things in college that can actually help someone prepare for working in the real world.
More Insane Liberal Bullshit!
My God! have 50% of legal American citizens really become So brain dead as to actually buy this kind of BS?? If my kid went to this college, he’d do so without a dime from me. Let him go ask BLM, Antifa, or the Dems for the money! All those groups are nothing more than Ponzi ripoffs as the rewards are already in the pockets of those, like Biden, who are sitting at home letting the brain-dead do the rioting!
Never apologize for being white
Total BS
All ethnic groups around the world should be offered a similar program tailored to their specific ethnicity. There would be hundreds of programs like this. Sounds like something out of the CCP “re-education camps in western China.
What a whacko! I was born white because God made me so.
She’s as crazy as the democrats.. OMG…
I’m 58 years old, and I’m STILL waiting for my alleged “White Privilege” to begin.
The ONLY “White Privilege” I ever had was to face discrimination when trying to get a decently-paying job. I eventually started my own business, just to face harassment from government goons.
I swear on everything holy, ans a few things unholy, these idiotic college “professors” are combining some truly nasty drugs with their clinical insanity. There is simply no other explanation for the madness they’re promoting.
I’m beginning to wonder if the hard-core survivalists are more correct that I once thought. Civilization really does appear to be crumbling at its base and about to collapse upon itself. Maybe I need to “head for the mountains” so to speak….
Usual liberal university ignorant asininity and stupidity.
Sorry, all of you liberals at this liberal college; BUT I am a white woman. I am not ashamed of it. I will not apologize for it. The God who created us in the first place – it was Him that decided the races and the colors and the languages, and all of the things that makes each one of us the individuals that we are! Nor should anyone else, no matter their skin color, their ethnicities, etc. apologize for who they are, including their skin color, their nationalities, etc. We should all, individually, embrace who we are because that is the way our Creator made us! When He created us, he gave each and everyone of us certain inalienable rights; we are all equal in these rights!! We have nothing to do with how God made us so how could we possibly ask for forgiveness because we are who we are!!! We should be thanking God every day because He has given us life, and each day we live is something we get to do only because God allows it. Now racism and discrimination are very different. God did not make us as a racist person, nor does He tell us to discriminate against one another. We do these abominable things all on our own. When He created us, he gave each and everyone of us certain inalienable rights; we are all equal in these rights!! You know why: Because when God created us, He gave us freedom of choice. God did not foist His will on us; He gave us the right to choose!! So, my liberal friends, we not only DO NOT, BUT WE MUST NOT!! apologize for being any specific color. But the way we treat our fellowman, that sometimes requires seeking forgiveness, not only from one another, BUT also from God.
Era P
The authors of this webinar clearly demonstrates that they regard all people, including their liberal Democrats, as idiots. They continue to try to hide the fact that Democrats were the real racists throughout our history, from George Wallace, Bull Connor, Lyndon Johnson, and Robert Byrd to the KKK.
If you are white and take that course and pass, do you come out with a tan?
No such thing as white supremacy or white privilege. The U. S. Constitution says nothing about Africans, Asians, Europeans etc. it says CITIZENS.
Another smear-word “White Supremacist” is applied to any European who doesn’t want to become a minority.
White privilege, no I don’t think so, more like black privilege. When a government makes special laws for one group of people it’s the beginning of genocide.
When did we vote to institute pervasive discrimination against white people, especially white males, with affirmative action?
How much more racist can a race be for attacking another race for existing. Sounds like GENOCIDE.
Minorities cry victims and blame their lack of success was the fault of the majority.
It’s all smoke to brainwash the younger generation. Some of them will say they learned that it college and they will turn on us. I’m white and I fight and proud of it. Reckon they will try to round me up one day. Who is going to go down with me. Trump 2020
I,m white and nobody gave me anything I had to work my ass off white privilage is bullsh-t
I wouldn’t need to attend this program. Being white is not something I am ashamed of. I am happy to be white. I’d be happy to be any racial group. Except for those that are from Fire Island (those people are psychotic). If other people have a problem with whiteness, they need to get a serious grip on themselves and reality. They just need something or someone to blame on their own inadequacies. Poor babies.
This woman has NO IDEA what A.A. & the 12 steps are all about, and it’s clear she ALSO has NO IDEA the true, actual HISTORY of how they came about! While mostly based on mainstream Christianity, they freely incorporated many other ideas into a basic WORKING framework. She does PROVE her IGNORANCE! And as for George Floyd, he’s neither saint, martyr, or hero! He was NOT murdered or killed! Read the full autopsy report, and watch the recently released body cam footage. He died from a fentanyl & meth DRUG OVERDOSE! PERIOD! Officer Chauvin will NOT be convicted, because he did NOT kill Floyd!….
Does Cristina Combs get PAID for this? Unbelievable.
How about just treating each other as INDIVIDUALS?
Just when the world cannot get more stupid….
Sounds like the University of F U!
Total BS
The difference is Alcohol is a choice being white is not. What BS!
So when do they start offering the 12 step program to recover from liberalism?
What a bunch of B.S.
These Liberals want all White Males to be turned into PJ Boys. Liberalism is a Mental Disorder for sure!
when you don’t stand for what is right, you’ll fall for anything. I’m sure these kids parents are so thrilled signing that check for tuition so their kids can be brain- washed into lives of leftist servitude.
I wonder if the University of Minnesota understands Kiss My A.. you bunch of morons?