Expert in racial equity discusses white privilege

Dr. Rosemarie Allen, associate professor at MSU's Denver's school of education, discusses the phenomenon of white women calling the police on black people.


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[davidpar]

“Expert in racial equity.” This is what passes as a “news story” today

[lewisvincent]

Who decides who’s a racial equity expert?

[tbotwest]

Karens explaining Karens. This is too meta

[eugenehicks]

As soon as they say expert.. Run for cover. "Expert" is a code word used to control the people. This woman is no more an expert than little Ray-Ray down the street.

[ternak]

“She used her white privilege against a man of color”. Hahahahaha. I think everybody has the privilege to call 911, lady.

[arslibri]

And what about Jussie Smollett? Any explanation professor?

[TheTraveler]

LMAO!!!! Expert in racial equity? And the media wonders why they are so hated.

[jasonsmith]

GET A YOU WONT WORRY BOUT COLOR WHEN YOU GET YO PAYCHECK

[aceup]

This video is citing events from decades ago to justify today's actions. There of course is still a racist mentality in certain people today, one that may never be absent from popular culture, but this expert never cited an actual resource to back their argument. All she used were historical examples that 'we have all heard of before' without the benefit of quantitative evidence. The civil rights protests had a leader (MLKJ among others) and a clear goal; the movement today doesn't have a definitive leader or a clear goal except for rioting and tearing statues down. It was only a basis of claims to support her reasoning; I'm sure the network's choice to have a person of color cite the facts was an intentional decision or it would sound like self-pitying for white people to call out white people for social injustice. I love this country, but come November the whole civil rights notion radicalized by democratic leaders will be dropped; it feels genuinely political. I'm sure there are many people standing up to injustice and protesting for the right reasons, but this video villainizes a woman for mistreating a person of color using nothing but assumed 'racist Karen opinions' and outmoded examples from an era where a majority of Americans, not a small minority, were racist. I'm not saying this woman wasn't racist, but in effect their entire argument for social justice is rooted on the fact that a majority of Americans are racists, which I don't believe in the slightest to be true unless they had quantitative evidence to support that claim, which is seen and shown nowhere in their argument.

[jacksparrow]

Karen’s have nothing to do with racism it’s all about a woman loosing their temper 😂

[dutchboyslim]

1:24
So why are "safe spaces for POC" OK?

2l43
So if words are not the problem, calling a black person the N- Word would not be a problem.

She's full of it and I would like to know how she got her job

[Admin-qyzi]

I love how the whole central Park Karen thing is blown out of proportion.

Actual Justice warrior doing a great video talking about the stage and great detail.

[AnthonyAdrianAcker]

Ummmm super problematic. Karen is a race neutral term. ANY woman can be a Karen. It is inclusive of all races and all women, yep even trans women.

[lazygamer]

How are you going to stop people from seeing me as the good guy, no matter what I do?

[aphinoo]

It would be crazy if she is even competent

[murdoch]

I should’ve gotten some stupid fake degree from a dumb college somewhere. I could be an expert in bullshit and get it on television too

[lam]

Sounds like this lady has not been on reddit

[aurobinson]

I’m white. Where do I go to get my privilege?

[grizznat]

There is no proof of racial intent or the police knowing her race do how do we know this is racist, let me know I would like to know I just don’t understand

[MS-insl]

how about the phenomenon of the ADL calling hate speech on white people