Prejudice Against Whites Comes from Prejudice Originated By Other Whites
I am a very prejudiced person. Far be it from me to pretend as if I do not emit racism, sexism, homophobia, ethnocentrism and classism into the Dartmouth environment on a regular basis; and while I blame a society that does not care for its children for most of my acculturated bigotry, I do not absolve myself of the responsibility of perpetuating jingoist attitudes, nor do I deny my greater obligation to attempt to prevent the transmission of my narrow-mindedness to my children. Recently a friend of mine called me a "hypocrite" because she perceived that I had a very harsh attitude towards whites which was incongruous with the highly-tolerant/anti-discriminatory image that I projected as a "campus-activist." To say the least I was very shocked and quite hurt to be accused of the greatest sin in the hierarchy of Dante's inferno (the two obvious hypocrites from the tradition of the Western canon--Judas the two-faced betrayer of Christ and Brutus his counterpart in Caesar's kingdom--are forever being consumed in Dis' mouth in the ninth circle of hell). My immediate reaction was of course to deny the charge as well as to try and contextualize any and all statements I may have made in my Dartmouth career alluding to individuals or groupings of them in which I used the word "white" as a qualifier or an indicative of a behavior, pre-disposition, temperament, et cetera.