The article details the author's experience with a controversial pledge at the University of Cincinnati, which required faculty to acknowledge complicity in white supremacy. The author expresses discomfort, feeling the pledge was not a genuine call to action but a public admission of guilt. Despite attempts at understanding through popular literature on race, the author finds the ideology dehumanizing and dystopian. They voice concerns about the negative implications such pledges hold for students of color and reflect on the silencing effect of fear in discussions surrounding race and privilege.
"In 2020, I was asked to sign a pledge that felt more like an empty confession of guilt than a productive call to action-an admission that my university, and I, were complicit in white supremacy."
"I imagined myself as a first-year student of color who saw that my white faculty had signed a pledge admitting that the education system was designed for me to fail."
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