by Thomas Stevenson
A DePaul University (DePaul) alumna and Nevada State College professor, Erika Abad, gave a presentation to other DePaul alumni on “colorism,” the notion that minority groups discriminate against each other based on how dark their skin is.
Abad said in her early February presentation that even tastes and smells are racialized, including “[h]ow we eat our chicken.”
The presentation was uploaded to the DePaul University Office of Alumni Relations YouTube channel.
Abad said that “colorsim” can be explained through five points, dubbed the “sense(s) of colorism:” sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste.
On the topic of sight, she referenced hair style and products, arguing that using coconut-based and scented products is about assimilating to “whiteness.”
Then, answering a question posed to her during the live stream, she said that “how [people of color] eat [their] chicken” is also about “whiteness,” but did not explain the details.
Doubling down, Abad said tanning has been racially “sexualized in a certain way,” making reference to “Ariana Grande … performing brown face in terms of her aesthetic.”
Abad said that, in the instance of Grande, brown face is acceptable due to her being “an Italian American.” She added, however, that “if folks who are organically and naturally darker or have textured hair, live in that comfortably, they are often perceived socially as less-than.”
DePaul’s Alumni Youtube channel also includes other videos on “Afro-Latinx Identity & Inclusivity” and “Queer and Trans Intersections with Disability Justice.”
Abad also spoke about an incident in which her family picture was denied for use in a press release for the UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, but later accepted. She described the original rejection as a “form of racial violence.”
A spokesman from the museum told Campus Reform, “With all due respect, Professor Abad is mistaken … When the press release was posted to the UNLV News Center, a different photo was used, as there were many from which to choose. Professor Abad made the request to change the photo, and the request was completed within a matter of minutes.”
Both DePaul and Nevada State College are involved with supporting and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion standards at their schools.
Instances of woke ideas associated with CRT and DEI taking over educational institutions across the nation have been well-documented.
Campus Reform has also recently reported on DePaul taking measures such as disallowing professors to use racial epithets even when used in a purely academic context.
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Thomas Stevenson is a senior majoring in Public Relations at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah,. He has been married to his wife for one year. He runs an independent conservative student publication called the Cougar Chronicle.
Photo “A Human Vessel Consuming Delicious Fried Chicken” by Tim Samuel.
I am sick of people always pushing something claiming racism. The lower class of people is constantly trying to find something that they can claim is racist. The media should stop giving any platform to these bellyachers. Ignore them because trashy people throw trash. The black lies matter crowd, naacp, the black caucus, the black actors guild, affirmative action, gerrymandering of voting districts, etc., etc., etc., etc. stacy abrams campaigned sayin make me the first black woman governor. She got a lot of votes. The fools and racists voted for her on this premise. They didn’t care about what might follow if she was elected. The only thing mattered is to get a black woman democrat as governor of GA. Why not vote for someone whose agenda is to do some good for the state/public?
Is this country going nuts? Just who is this crackpot professor that nobody’s ever heard of? If we believed some of these people, then everything is racist. Every where you turn somebody is yelling racism, you would think that this country was run by that 13% of our population. We need to get rid of this phony woke business, and get back to more whiteness running this country, otherwise we are destroying our country from within.