This charming announcement is from an email sent out by ASHA on March 30, 2010.
The Minority Student Leadership Program application period is open through May 3, 2010. This program is for you if you want to enhance your leadership skills, interact with leaders in our professions, and learn how your Association works. Join over 350 students from racial/ethnic minority backgrounds who have gained insight into their leadership abilities, have gotten a better understanding of how leaders effect change within ASHA, and have become empowered to take risks and meet their own challenges. All students are eligible to apply; however, preference will be given to students from racial/ethnic minority backgrounds that have historically been underrepresented in the Association. (Bold and italics added)
So what do students from preferred racial/ethnic minority backgrounds accepted into the program get ? Answer: "complimentary ASHA 2010 convention registration," "up to five nights of lodging," and a "meal stipend." White students who hope to attend the convention in Philadelphia, however, will need to start putting in double shifts at work and pinching their pennies. Once white students arrive in Philadelphia, they'll have to search the city for low-cost diners and early-bird specials (Philadelphia has a number of soup kitchens set up for the poor and homeless; ASHA convention information booths will happily provide directions to white students).
Welcome to ASHA's 2010 convention in Philadelphia - City of Brotherly Love! Prices are based on your skin color!
This ASHA program states that it will provide a way for students to "enhance your leadership skills, interact with leaders in our professions, and learn how your Association works." Since no white college-aged student anywhere on the planet ever had a need to enhance their leadership skills or interact with leaders in their profession, ASHA wisely gives them a lower preference in the selection process (meaning: fat chance!). As far as learning how the Association works, I've been studying ASHA for a long time, and I can save all student SLPs a lot of time and trouble by giving them a heads up: the Association doesn't work - and this program is just one more of the many egregious examples of why it doesn't work.
Okay, if this program is about enhancing leadership skills, interacting with leaders, and learning about ASHA, why isn't it offered to every student on a first-come, first-served basis, the way we usually do things here in the USA?
Apparently, ASHA doesn't think so. Maybe it's because this common-sense approach is far too radical a concept for diversity and multiculturally-obsessed ASHA: it might actually lead to ASHA treating everybody as equals.
The new racism practiced by liberals teaches that it's only racism and bigotry when the victims are people of color; when white individuals are the victims of discrimination and exclusionary practices, it's perfectly acceptable. The new racists believe they have perfectly rational, historically, socially, and culturally important reasons for discriminating against white people and giving greater preference to people of color. The old-style racists, however, believed they had perfectly rational, historically, socially, and culturally important reasons for discriminating against people of color and giving greater preference to white people.
As anyone can see, it's blazingly obvious why liberals think that one is justified while the other isn't.
"Mommy is sorry, P.J., but you can't join the other kids at ASHA's convention because our family isn't from a racial/ethnic minority background that has been historically underrepresented in the Association!"
I am told that that sinister orwellian phrase - "preference will be given to students from racial/ethnic minority backgrounds that have historically been underrepresented" - is currently being used in California to keep down the number of Asian students admitted into graduate math and science programs.
I wouldn't be at all surprised. That's how the new racists hide their racism and bigotry: behind weasel words and phrases rather than sheets and burning crosses.
Here's a question for ASHA's board of directors: if ASHA is going to offer white people fewer opportunities for professional growth than individuals "from racial/ethnic backgrounds that have been historically underrepresented in the Association," shouldn't there be some kind of discount on dues and fees for those men and women who have been historically over-represented in the Association?
Let's compare what ASHA preaches with what it practices.
Here's what ASHA's code of ethics preaches:
And here's what ASHA actually practices:
Let's sum this all up by looking up a relevant word in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Hypocrite: noun.
1 : a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion
2 : a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings
Welcome to ASHA's 2010 convention in Philadelphia - City of Brotherly Love! Prices are based on your skin color!
This ASHA program states that it will provide a way for students to "enhance your leadership skills, interact with leaders in our professions, and learn how your Association works." Since no white college-aged student anywhere on the planet ever had a need to enhance their leadership skills or interact with leaders in their profession, ASHA wisely gives them a lower preference in the selection process (meaning: fat chance!). As far as learning how the Association works, I've been studying ASHA for a long time, and I can save all student SLPs a lot of time and trouble by giving them a heads up: the Association doesn't work - and this program is just one more of the many egregious examples of why it doesn't work.
Okay, if this program is about enhancing leadership skills, interacting with leaders, and learning about ASHA, why isn't it offered to every student on a first-come, first-served basis, the way we usually do things here in the USA?
First-come, first-served ...is a service policy whereby the requests of customers or clients are attended to in the order that they arrived, without other biases or preferences... In Western society, it is the standard policy... (Wikipedia).Does anyone NOT think that is the fair and democratic way to go about accepting applicants for this or any other program?
Apparently, ASHA doesn't think so. Maybe it's because this common-sense approach is far too radical a concept for diversity and multiculturally-obsessed ASHA: it might actually lead to ASHA treating everybody as equals.
The new racism practiced by liberals teaches that it's only racism and bigotry when the victims are people of color; when white individuals are the victims of discrimination and exclusionary practices, it's perfectly acceptable. The new racists believe they have perfectly rational, historically, socially, and culturally important reasons for discriminating against white people and giving greater preference to people of color. The old-style racists, however, believed they had perfectly rational, historically, socially, and culturally important reasons for discriminating against people of color and giving greater preference to white people.
As anyone can see, it's blazingly obvious why liberals think that one is justified while the other isn't.
"Mommy is sorry, P.J., but you can't join the other kids at ASHA's convention because our family isn't from a racial/ethnic minority background that has been historically underrepresented in the Association!"
I am told that that sinister orwellian phrase - "preference will be given to students from racial/ethnic minority backgrounds that have historically been underrepresented" - is currently being used in California to keep down the number of Asian students admitted into graduate math and science programs.
I wouldn't be at all surprised. That's how the new racists hide their racism and bigotry: behind weasel words and phrases rather than sheets and burning crosses.
Here's a question for ASHA's board of directors: if ASHA is going to offer white people fewer opportunities for professional growth than individuals "from racial/ethnic backgrounds that have been historically underrepresented in the Association," shouldn't there be some kind of discount on dues and fees for those men and women who have been historically over-represented in the Association?
Let's compare what ASHA preaches with what it practices.
Here's what ASHA's code of ethics preaches:
Principle of Ethics I, Rule C. Individuals shall not discriminate in the delivery of professional services or the conduct of research and scholarly activities on the basis of race or ethnicity, gender, gender identity/gender expression, age, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, or disability. (Italics and bold added)
And here's what ASHA actually practices:
... preference will be given to students from racial/ethnic minority backgrounds that have historically been underrepresented in the Association. (Italics and bold added)Nope, absolutely no contradiction there.
Let's sum this all up by looking up a relevant word in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Hypocrite: noun.
1 : a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion
2 : a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings
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