Editor's note: The June Letter of the Month was originally published June 16.
But no one told me
I just read Walter Williams' opinion piece titled "Diversity and inclusiveness," in which Mr. Williams quoted several university professors. One professor was quoted as saying that "mathematics itself operates as Whiteness" and as such perpetuates "unearned privilege" among whites. An engineering professor was quoted as saying that academic rigor upholds white, heterosexual male privilege and that "scientific knowledge itself is gendered, raced, and colonizing."
As a white, heterosexual male with 16 years of education, I'm not sure whether I should laugh at, or resent the above allegation, or if I should be angry at the educational system which failed to provide me with the white privilege to which I was unknowingly entitled.
As I look back at my report cards and college transcripts, I think that the highest grade I found for a math course was a C-minus, which was greatly outnumbered by "Ds." (I would like to thank Mr. Doyal Dillahunty, who gave me that C-minus in ninth-grade algebra.)
To whom do I speak about retroactively claiming the privilege to which I was entitled, but was obviously withheld as an act of discrimination against me?
MIKE O'CAIN
Benton
Editorial on 07/10/2018