A Letter to a College Going/Gone Woke

I've been very disappointed with the response to Prof S______'s article, suspending him.

 

His rhetoric may have been too strong ("heresy"), but his concerns are valid.  My daughter has confirmed them with her own personal experience as a student at C________ for the last three years.  We will not be sending any of our other three children to you, unless we see significant change.

 

Faithful Christian institutions need to find a way to communicate their support for minorities, while rejecting the woke agenda behind "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" (DIE).  C________ has yet to do this.

 

We are talking past each other, too often. 

 

I realize that supporters of DIE are not all Marxist revolutionaries.  Most simply want to show they support minorities and are not racist.  But the DIE agenda goes far beyond that and needs to be rejected.

 

Opponents of DIE like me are not white supremacists or racists.  We simply want policy based on achievement, not on skin color, which DIE has obviously become.  Preferential treatment of minorities today is not a proper response to disparaging them in the past.  Your suspension of the adjunct criminal justice prof last year demonstrates your stance of preferential treatment for minorities.

 

Please reconsider your stance.  The Board of Regents needs to select a president willing to take a biblical stand on these issues, on C__________'s campus: including the poor and marginalized (Leviticus 19:34), and also not giving preferential treatment to the disadvantaged (Exodus 23:3).

 

Thank you for your consideration.